Turtle Splash Review
boardgamequest.comIt’s party time in the animal kingdom. Everyone in the jungle is meeting at the watering hole for a splash party. But, as usual, the turtle is late. So to speed things up, he slides down the river into the pool. Party time!
That’s the theme of Turtle Splash! A family-weight game published by Gigamic and Lucky Duck Games. Does the theme make sense? Probably not. Is it fun for you and your little ones? That’s the million-dollar question. Let’s find out!
Turtle Splash is a dexterity and memory game for 2-4 players. Each player gets a mat featuring three rows of four different animals. The goal for each player is to move their three markers across each row to the end. The first to do that, wins. But how do you accomplish said feat? Good question!
On a player’s turn, they start by flicking the turtle disc down the ramp. If it lands in the center of the “pool,” the player can flip over three tiles looking for a match on their sheet. If it just hits the pool, but not the indented area in the center, then they flip over two tiles. Any other result (including a complete overshoot) lets them reveal one tile.
The rest is standard memory matching play. There are 12 animals in a grid and if the tile you flip matches one of the three animals directly to the right of one of your beach ball markers, you can move the marker on top of it. If you don’t get a match, you get to take a life preserver token, which gives you a bonus flip on a future turn.
My kids love both memory games and dexterity games, so I was pretty sure Turtle Splash would be a hit. And of course, it was. The colorful art, 3D slide, flicking action, fun theme… it all just hit home with them. Even though they are only 4.5 years old, and the box says for ages 5-9, they had
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