I introduced the game to the kids eight weeks ago and thought that it would be appropriate for the kids above 8 years of age.

The game achieved phenomenal popularity. Kids in the second and third grades, as well, were able to enjoy it and actually solve many of the puzzles. Demand grew. I began issuing it like a library book, so they could work on it even when we were not there.

I was concerned that they would lose the pieces and gave them instructions to keep everything in a bag (this is a fairly expensive item). Unlike most puzzles we find at home, however, the Kaleidoscope game is still intact.

They found letters from the bag and placed them on to the preset words on one side of the game board. This was done in turns by the players. At first i was surprised. Then i asked them if they always played like this, and they said, “Yes! Is there another way of playing this game?”

I then suggested to them the regular way of giving each of them seven chips of letters and then making words that get attached to each other every time the player makes a word and so on and so forth. No scores though! We spent a good hour playing scrabble and it was real fun.

I had to struggle to make the simplest of words like ’joy’,'shine’ to get them to understand the real word game. At the end of an hour i said, “hey you know, I’m tired! Can we do something else?” Then Chetan looked at me and smiled and said “Ok, but can I issue this game and can we play by ourselves when you are away?” After a long time, i really enjoyed a simple game of scrabble.

Sandhya