Once in a dark forest. Love fantasy: the best books in the genre Once in a dark forest game

  • 03.01.2022

"Once Upon a Time in a Dark Forest" is a magical game with good ghosts for children and adults!

My Timofey is a little less than two and a half years old, and he is very picky in everything, especially in toys and books, so I was absolutely not sure whether he would like this game or not. But he was just delighted, the whole evening our whole family was on the floor, collecting stories this way and that. They barely put Timofey to bed, but in the morning, barely waking up, he immediately demanded to immediately again give him "Oo-oo-oo", as he called them.

The game is something like a long horizontal puzzle of 20 cards. Cardboard cards, very thick, with cute drawings on both sides. Each card depicts a scene, connecting them with each other, we get a story.

This is something like an interactive book that you can compose and re-compose yourself many, many times. You can play it alone or with family and friends.

I really liked the drawings, they are so cute and funny, and the colors are gentle and pleasant.

I am also very pleased with unusual heroes - good ghosts! After all, it is so difficult to find an educational interactive game for children, so that the characters in it would not be banal bunnies, chanterelles, koloboks. No, Koloboks and Ryaby Chickens, this is, of course, wonderful, but only at the initial stage, we all start with them, but then our imagination and fantasy always begin to demand more.

Advantages:

Bright beautiful pictures, double-sided cards, a strong storage box, unusual heroes of the story - kind and cute ghosts.

Once in a dark forest. A game for the whole family

This is not the first game in our house for the development of imagination.
Last year we got a book in which it was proposed to come up with a fairy tale on our own, it seemed to me quite fascinating, since childhood I like to invent different stories. And it was surprising to me that my daughter had a problem with the task. It seems that we often read fairy tales, but there are more than enough magic and various miracles in them, and fairies come to visit us, and the New Year's Gnome comes in winter, and the lover of books - the gnome Gosha has been friends with Nastya for the second year, but it’s how it happens, despite the whole fairy tale surrounding the child, it turned out to be difficult for her to give free rein to her imagination. Now we have several sets of games with cards, with their help Nastya composes stories from pictures. Previously, it was rather a statement of facts, now the stories are becoming more complex, somewhere she thinks out something, slowly learns to fantasize.

The quality of this game is excellent. The cards are not just on thick cardboard, but on very thick cardboard, the game can be inherited, it is not afraid of time with such quality. The packaging is also made to last, a dense, convenient box.

The rules of the game are written on the lid of the box, but you can play by your own rules. You can make both a boy and a girl the main character, or you can alternate. The cards are double-sided, thanks to this, events can develop differently each time.

Summer is coming, vacations, sea, summer cottages, this game is convenient to take with you, it is interesting and useful to play it!

Once, in a dark-dark forest, this is what happened ... and what exactly - I don't know!
And all because in this fabulous game, everyone decides for himself what exactly will happen in his dark forest. Because this is a storytelling game, tell a story. You can play together (narrator-listener / co-author) or a company. The age of the players is not limited, an interesting puzzle format for drawing up game cards. The cards are really for children, for ages from 3 to 8 years old it will be interesting and understandable.
The rules are simple: shuffle the cards, pull them out without looking, continue the story. The main weapon is only your imagination :)
Well, I want to add that this is a rather psychological game that will allow you to better understand the mood and character of the child. Why is there a child - yourself! It will help you learn to better find a common language and, in principle, an excuse to do something together, compose an unforgettable story, which you can then remember with a smile before going to bed.
Cards are made of good thick cardboard, by the way) the quality is at the level)


Board games are a salvation in cold autumn-winter evenings. Such games are only entertaining, but there are educational, interesting, family games. Our new product is one of those. Once Upon a Time in a Dark Forest is a set of puzzle cards that you can use to create a story and tell it. Previously, a similar game came out in MYTH and caused a huge number of positive responses.

About family games

Play usually forms one core skill or knowledge. For example, using the cards “Pictures. My Big Exhibition "the child gets acquainted with the canvases of world artists: he learns to distinguish directions in painting, remembers the most famous paintings of the masters.


Or the game "Once Upon a Time": cards are collected in an endless number of stories. This is a great way to develop speech and imagination. Puzzles can be folded into a two-meter fairy tale!


With the help of board games you can have fun with the whole family, it brings parents and children together incredibly!

“Once Upon a Time in a Dark Forest” is also aimed at developing speech and imagination. Participants take turns telling stories: how one day ghosts appeared in a dark forest ... The continuation depends on the storyteller's imagination!


The cards are made in the form of puzzles, which adds to the variation of the game. You can compose a story from one of the puzzles, or you can come up with a whole story from a series of cards. It turns out unexpectedly and funny, if the puzzles are mixed, laid out in random order and told with the full force of the imagination!

The game is suitable for children from three years old and adults. “How is it?” You ask. There is nothing surprising here: stories can be told by everyone! Kids 'stories will be simpler, adults' stories will turn out to be more twisted, which will delight children!

5 reasons to buy

  1. It's a game, but as useful as a good book.
  2. It can be played with the whole family: it will be equally interesting for both children from 3 years old and adults.
  3. Develops speech and imagination (not only in children;).
  4. Unusual format of puzzle cards.
  5. You can return to the game many times: there are as many variations as you can imagine!

About storytelling technique

This is the name of the "storytelling" method. It is used in schools with a creative bias. Storytelling is an effective tool for the development of speech and imagination. These skills will come in handy for all children, no matter what profession they choose in the future.

Even adults note the effect of the game: from constant practice, speech becomes livelier, images are brighter, fantasy is richer.

How to play?

“Once Upon a Time in a Dark Forest” is not a one-day game. You can come back to it endlessly. Here are some variations of the rules of the game, but you can come up with your own!

  • Distribute cards to all participants. Let someone lay out the first puzzle and begin the story, and the rest continue, complementing the series with new "frames" and linking their fragments of the story with the previous ones.
  • Pull cards out at random and write a story without preparation. It's more difficult: ready to test your resourcefulness?
  • Do you like to come up with a complete picture in front of your eyes? Lay out all the puzzles in random order, and as soon as the "video sequence" is ready, start fantasizing!
  • Choose a presenter who will lay out the puzzles at your own discretion. Storytellers will only voice what they see. Will you be able to guess the presenter's intention?
  • Don't like to improvise? Arrange the cards however you like, create a story, and then tell or read it to your listeners!

Once Upon a Time in a Dark Forest, a family tradition can begin. It's great to sit at the same table in the evenings and do something together. Try it too!

For love fantasy are characterized by bright, with a sharp tongue, observation, perseverance in achieving their goals, differ from others by their ingenuity,. It can be both "simpleton" and noble ladies. Often, the main character goes from the real world to the fantasy one. It happens that the heroine rushes between several men and cannot make a choice, but it happens and vice versa - you have to compete for a visionary handsome man.

Most often, the plot of such works is linear, the storyline is one. The worlds in which the action takes place are limited only by the author's imagination, and men who want to make a pair of the main character can have a tail, scales, vertical eyes, fur, fangs, wings or sharp ears. Novels, where the love line unfolds within the walls, are also relevant. Around the heroine - usually a young student - real intrigues, conspiracies unfold, danger is on his heels.

Features of the genre in 2020

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