Penny Games

by Klutz, Rachel Tandy (Editor), Michael Sherman (Designer)

Penny power!

Board Games for Pennies!

7 action-packed games including: Penny Soccer, Penny Pig Out, The One Cent Slide, Feed the Fish!

Plus penny art and penny cleaning!

14 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Klutz is a publishing company started in Palo Alto, California in 1977 and acquired by Scholastic Inc. in 2002. The first Klutz book was a how-to guide titled Juggling for the Complete Klutz, which came provided with juggling beanbags attached in a mesh bag. The book was created by three friends who graduated from Stanford University: Darrell Lorentzen, John Cassidy, and B.C. Rimbeaux. Since then the company has continued to specialize in activity-driven books sold along with other items needed for the activity. Not all the books are about developing a skill; there has also been a geography book containing, among other physical attachments, packets of rice corresponding to the average daily caloric intake among the poorest people of the world. Many of their books are spiral bound and teach various crafts. The items needed are usually included with the book, e.g. the juggling guide. The Klutz credo is: Create wonderful things, be good, have fun.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Rod Brown]

A fun variety of competitive and solo games you can play with the provided pennies and the playing boards that are built directly into the book.

It's a bit silly and awkward at times, but fiddling around with this book should provide a momentary distraction from screen time.

With the government's discontinuation of minting pennies, might this be a collector's item down the road?