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TM Mini Spy . . . Mini Spy and Basset Brown are playing Monopoly. See if you can find: • question mark • wheelbarrow • frog • dice • kite • strawberry • number 7 • ruler • letter E • boot • bowl • word MINI • flyswatter • cheese wedge • letter A • letter H © 2010 Universal Uclick • ladder • letter F • pencil • banana from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Family Fun Let’s Play a ! Winter means colder Kinds of temperatures in many parts of Which board games are your the country. Do you play inside favorites? People who study more when it gets cold outside? games put them into different Many kids and families enjoy categories. For example: playing board games together • Race games include Sorry when the weather is frosty. The and Parcheesi. In these games, Mini Page learned more about the player tries to get all his or the history of board games her game pieces to the finish. and discovered that a couple of • Trivia games ask players favorites are having birthdays to correctly answer questions to this year. Let’s play! win game pieces or move ahead. Ancient play • Roll-and-move games People have been using such as Monopoly have players boards to play games since move around the board according to rolls of the dice. ancient times. Around 5,000 from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick years ago • Word games such as in Egypt, allow players to gain TM people points by spelling out words Rookie Cookie’s Recipe played a with alphabet tiles. Spice Snack Cake game called • Strategy or capture games such as chess and You’ll need: • 1/2 cup plain nonfat yogurt Senet. This • 3/4 cup whole-wheat flour • 1 egg painting checkers are played in many • 1 teaspoon cinnamon • 1 teaspoon vanilla Mini Page photo different ways around the world. • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice • 2 tablespoons honey from an Egyptian tomb shows a • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda • 2 tablespoons sugar woman playing the game. Still, • 21/2 tablespoons reduced-fat margarine, cold • 1/3 cup cranberry raisins Experts think a game called Go Family game time most games What to do: depend on 1. Mix flour, spices and baking soda in a medium-size bowl. is even older. It probably started in Here’s a special holiday gift that you 2. Blend in the margarine with a fork until the mixture is crumbly. China. some luck 3. Combine yogurt, egg, vanilla, honey and sugar in a large bowl. Using an can give your whole family: Plan a game get- along with electric mixer, beat the ingredients until smooth. Backgammon, still a popular game together. Choose a game, make popcorn, 4. Add the flour mixture to the large bowl and beat again for another minute. today, is the oldest game in which knowledge 5. Stir in the cranberry raisins. turn off the television and turn up the fun! or skill. 6. Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray. Pour in the batter. players roll the dice to find out how Award a special treat to the winner. 7. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 minutes or until the cake is done. many moves to make. You will need an adult’s help with this recipe. from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick

from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Meet Mandy Moore What’s Your Game? Mandy Moore is the voice of Rapunzel in the Disney movie “Tangled.” She is an actress, singer Could you invent your own board and songwriter. She has recorded six albums and game? What would be the theme, or been in several movies, including “The Princess Did you know you can attend idea? What type of board would you Diaries.” She was the voice of Sandy in “Racing college, get a job, start a family and Stripes.” use? Here are some questions to get Mandy works with several charities. She is retire — all while playing one game? you started. an ambassador for Five & Alive, which provides The Game of Life celebrates its 50th education and care for people in more than 30 countries. She helped distribute malaria anniversary this year. But its history • How many photo by Eric Charbonneau, © Disney Disney © Charbonneau, Eric by photo Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved prevention nets and helped get clean water for goes back to the mid-1800s. players will play people in the Sudan. She also works for charities fighting leukemia. Mandy, 26, was born in Nashua, N.H., and grew up outside Orlando, The early game your game? Fla. While growing up, she performed the national anthem for sporting Milton Bradley was a young events in Florida. When she was 15, she released her first record. She later toured with draftsman, an artist who makes • What shape will the Backstreet Boys. from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick technical drawings. In 1860, he used your board be? his artistic skills to develop a game he from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick TM called The Checkered Game of Life. • What is the objective, His game was a huge success. or goal, for a player? The modern game The Checkered Game of Life • What type Supersport: Nolan Smith of game Height: 6-2 Weight: 185 Hometown: Upper Marlboro, Md. When the Milton Bradley Co. was archives for ideas. He found Milton Whether he’s playing point guard or shooting guard, getting ready to celebrate its 100th Bradley’s original The Checkered pieces will Duke basketball standout Nolan Smith is hard to guard. anniversary in 1960, designer Reuben Game of Life. Klamer’s new version you need? He dazzles opponents with explosive bursts to the basket, Klamer looked through the company’s became popular with kids and families. a soft jump shot or running a fast-break in the lane. A photo courtesy Inc. senior co-captain, Smith also is a tough defender. • What rules will your game have? As a junior last season, he helped Duke win the school’s fourth men’s Bradley’s other work You may have to play it a few times to national basketball championship. He made the All-Final Four team Bradley went on to be a big supporter of the idea of kindergarten. During figure out the rules. and is one key reason the Blue Devils could go all the way again. his time, children went straight from home to school, where they were expected Away from basketball, Nolan majors in African and African- to memorize facts and get along well with classmates. Kindergarten was thought The Mini Page thanks John Milazzo, American studies, reads with area schoolchildren and visits patients at library specialist and head of the Fondren Duke Children’s Hospital. He lights up rooms with his big smile. of as a way to teach preschoolers through words and play they could understand. It Exhibits Committee at Southern Methodist That’s Smith — easy to like, difficult to defeat. also helped them learn how to behave and work with others. University, for help with this issue.

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A Monopoly Anniversary All the following jokes have something in common. Can you guess the common theme or category? An early favorite Darrow and the Depression A popular game Mary: What do chess players say when Monopoly celebrates its 75th Like many people during the Soon Darrow was making two sets starting their game? birthday this year. However, another Depression of the early 1930s, a day and selling them for $4 each. Maxwell: “Once a pawn a time …”! game, called The Landlord’s Game, Charles Darrow of Germantown, He sold some of the sets to a store probably helped Monopoly inventor Pa., was looking for work in Philadelphia to find out whether Milly: When did the deck of cards need a to support his bandage? Charles Darrow come up with the other people would buy them. Morris: When it was cut by the dealer! idea for his game. family. Some In 1934, A Quaker woman named experts believe when Darrow Melvin: What did the tired chess player Lizzie J. Magie designed The he had played first asked do? Landlord’s Game in 1903. a version Parker Marvin: He took a knight off! She was against the of The Brothers if the Landlord’s from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick idea of wealthy company would TM people being Game manufacture Basset Brown try ’n able to gain a starting in and sell the The News Hound’s Games find monopoly* 1932. game, he Words that remind us of games are hidden in the block below. Some words are on land. She Darrow started was turned hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: BACKGAMMON, BOARD, BRADLEY, CHECKERS, CHESS, DARROW, DICE, hoped her game sketching out a game board on down. Parker Charles Darrow EGYPT, FAMILY, FUN, GAMES, GO, LIFE, MONOPOLY, PARCHEESI, PLAY, would help players see An early Monopolya tablecloth. board and It box included many of Brothers said 1889-1967 RACE, SCRABBLE, SENET, SORRY, STRATEGY, TRIVIA, WIN, WINTER. that a monopoly ownership the street names of Atlantic City, N.J., the game had “52 design errors.” T P Y G E J Y L I M A F U N O a favorite vacation spot for his family. Get your R E T N I W G S T R A T E G Y of the properties on the board helps So Darrow sold 5,000 sets to game on! only one player. In this way, Lizzie’s Darrow colored the different department stores in Philadelphia, E Y R R O S E S C R A B B L E game was the opposite of today’s properties and made little houses where they were a big hit. In 1935, F H L R C E C I D S J M O T L and hotels out of wood scraps. He I W R C H E C K E R S P A R D Monopoly, in which one player tries began selling L A I C E G V N A C O B R I A to own all the properties on the and his wife invited neighbors in Monopoly. Darrow became a rich D L R N S D E C H N W J D V R board. to play. Players, especially winners, man. G A M E S T E L O C H Z Q I B *A monopoly is when only one person or company began to ask for their own set to Today Monopoly can be played on P L A Y X N O M M A G K C A B controls something. keep at home. a video screen or in many different languages. In fact, a Braille version from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick A Monopoly Quiz-a-Roonie is available for visually impaired

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