{"product_id":"travel-pencil-and-paper-games-usborne-minis","title":"Travel Pencil \u0026 Paper Games","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is about the size of a passport, it costs less than a coffee, and it holds two people for the length of a flight delay. Every game inside is for two players, every game is played in the book, and the only thing you have to bring is a pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOs and Xs opens the book with a worked example and then rows of empty grids, so nobody argues about the rules. Pairs asks you to join up matching monsters without lifting your pencil off the paper or touching a line already drawn, which turns a page of cartoon monsters into a genuine planning problem. Creature catcher gives you circles of monkeys, tigers, rabbits and frogs, and you take turns drawing round them, one or two at a time, until somebody is left with the animal in the middle. Squares and four in a row are in here too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsborne’s own note on these games is that they test logic and ingenuity, and that is the honest description: they are short, they are competitive, and a six year old can beat an adult at them. Twenty four pages, rules printed beside every game, and small enough to live in a glovebox or a coat pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 24 pages, by Kate Nolan, illustrated by Jordan Wray. Usborne Publishing, 2025. ISBN-13 9781836050209. Publisher age guidance: 6 years and up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other Usborne Minis on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/doodling-dinosaurs-usborne-minis\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDoodling Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/doodling-things-that-go-usborne-minis\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDoodling Things That Go\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/stick-people-to-draw-usborne-minis\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eStick People to Draw\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-minis-travel-puzzles\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eTravel Puzzles\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48250506248422,"sku":"9781836050209","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/39402174709990.jpg?v=1787956224","url":"https:\/\/shop.stellarluxe.com\/products\/travel-pencil-and-paper-games-usborne-minis","provider":"Stellar Luxe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}