Penguin Skate

Ages 3 to 8

Penguin Skate is a calm 3D game on a sparkly frozen pond ringed by candy-coloured cottages. The child holds a finger anywhere on the ice and the little penguin in a pink scarf skates towards it; letting go makes it glide on and slow down. On a computer the arrow keys steer too.

Each pond has stars and snowflakes to collect, a few at a time, with the odd golden star that counts twice. There is nothing scary to avoid: friendly snowmen stand on the ice and simply bump the penguin softly round them.

There are thirty ponds across three lands: Candy Pond by day, Sunset Pond as the sun goes down and Starlight Pond at night. The first land has no clock at all. In the later lands some ponds ask for a number of stars, others give forty seconds to collect as many as possible, and some snowmen skate slow circles. A pond that keeps beating a child gets easier. Penguin Skate is included in Elf Club and up.

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