Go Dog Go

As you know from many past posts, I enjoy good books and good games. And just as I have unsuccessfully written many good books, I have unsuccessfully made up many good games.

Edmund is following in my footsteps, and one of his favorite books is the classic P.D. Eastman masterpiece, Go Dog Go.

With scissors and glue, scrap paper, colored pencils, a scalpel, and some genius ideas (and I vainly pat myself on the back) two Saturdays ago I recruited Tracy’s aid and I made a test version of a new game: Go Dog Go.


We will make a more permanent version over the next few weeks, and may even start this afternoon. The “winner” (if winner there be) is the first to make it to the big tree at the end. But there’s no “dog party” until the others make it too.

Each player is a dog. You draw cards which have colored squares on them corresponding to the colored squares of the board (much like Candyland). Interspersed with these cards are event cards (either helping you along or holding you back) and party items that you keep until you reach the party tree (so far, we just have party hats and a birthday cake). One player can, if lucky, land on a square that gives you a blimp (also from the book) that allows you to go on a short cut track.

Edmund loves it.

My first successful game creation!