Ice Floe Hop

Ages 4 to 9

Ice Floe Hop asks the child to help a little penguin in a blue scarf cross rows of icy water. Ice floes glide slowly from side to side, and the trick is to wait until one floats right in front of the penguin. A tap hops forward one row, a swipe hops sideways or back, and the arrow keys work on a computer.

Gold coins ride on the ice and sit on the snowy banks, and every crossing ends at the far shore by an igloo with a flag and a pile of presents.

There are thirty crossings across three lands: the Frozen Lake, the Icy River and Sunset Bay. In the first land nothing can go wrong, because a penguin that hops into the water simply swims back to where it was. Later crossings have more rows, faster and narrower floes, snowy banks to rest on halfway and, in the last land, lanes of ice that wobble and dip under for a moment. A crossing that keeps beating a child gets easier. Ice Floe Hop is included in Elf Club and up.

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