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Being understood

They talk plenty and strangers cannot follow it. You find yourself repeating everything they say for other people.

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  • A balloon carrying a chick up past the clouds after its word was said, with the next word waiting below.

    Balloon Words

    40s

    A balloon waits under a drifting cloud.

  • An animal drawn whole with confetti over it after a child named it, and a button waiting for the next one.

    Make an Animal

    50s

    A grey animal shape with coloured dots on it.

    Also being understood · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A round green monster smiling just after copying a sound back, with the next sound to make printed large below him and a line describing the shape the mouth makes.

    Monster Mouth

    60s

    Bramble cannot make a sound.

  • A kid across a table holding a thing up and waiting, with the things already said lined up on the near side.

    My Turn

    60s

    A kid stands across the table holding a thing.

    Also being understood · back-and-forth · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A picture with its word printed under it, and below that a fuel gauge with a rocket more than half way along it.

    Rocket Boost

    45s

    Each production charges and fires one of four engines.

  • A drawing partly painted in and partly still an outline, its word printed underneath, with dots showing one part left to go.

    Say and See

    60s

    An empty outline of one thing, with its word printed under it.

    Also being understood · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A street of houses built out of shapes, with the shapes to find offered underneath and the one just named confirmed.

    Shape Town

    75s

    A town with six shaped holes cut into it -- a roof, a window, a clock, a door, a sign, a kite.

    Also being understood · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A grid of pictures with the next one to name ringed, and that word printed large underneath.

    Sound Smash

    60s

    Target words break, open, shatter or launch whatever is in the way.

  • One word at the top with three pictures under it, one of which rhymes, and the rhyming pair named once it is found.

    Sounds Like

    60s

    Stepping stones across water each carry a picture.

  • A word broken into its parts, with a step rising under each part as the child says it.

    Syllable Stomp

    45s

    A bridge builds one plank per syllable.

  • A meadow with a cat, a pig, a chick, a bird, a butterfly and an apple in it, the one just named shown in a speech bubble, and tabs for two more scenes.

    Tap and Say

    60s

    A living scene -- meadow, forest or pond -- with animals standing in it.

    Also being understood · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A picture to name and two bins to sort it into by the sound it starts with, each showing how many have gone in.

    Two Baskets

    60s

    Creatures only eat things that start with their sound.

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