As you may remember I was sponsored to attend BritMums Live this year by Orchard Toys. I’ve been working with the lovely UK children’s game and puzzle brand for a couple of years now and you might have spotted my shiny new badge appear on the home page recently. Orchard Toys have recently launched a new game for children aged 3 years and over to enjoy, called Robot Run. We’ve been having lots of fun with it since it arrived, it even went to York on our break last weekend.
Robot Run can be played with 2-4 players and is great for working on colour recognition as well as object matching. The game comes with 40 brightly coloured Robot picture cards and 1 ‘rainbow paintbrush’ card, all are made from sturdy board.
The idea of the game is to match Robots either by colour or same styling. The first player to use all of their cards is the winner.
Start by dealing each player 5 cards which are placed in front of them, facing upwards.
Place the rest of the cards in a central pile facing down and turn the first card over to begin play. The youngest player starts – can they match this card by colour or design? If yes, they place their playing card on top of this card. If not, then they pick a card from the face down pile and add it to their robot selection.
If you turn over the ‘rainbow paintbrush’ card then you can say which colour you want to be played.
If the central pile of cards runs out before someone has let all their Robots Run, then you give the pile a shuffle and start again.
The cards are an ideal size for younger players and it’s a great game to pop in a suitcase or overnight bag for trips away from home. Game play doesn’t take too long, so it’s great for those with a short attention span and Monkey and I have had lots of fun playing Robot Run over the last couple of weeks.
We’ve also used some of the cards for story telling, Monkey gives them names and we we’ve worked out a few space themed adventures for them and this is something I plan to expand with him over the next few months. It’s not part of the set game, but we do always like to do thing differently here!
I’ve seen Christmas cards already in the shops, eek! So if you are super organised and are looking for stocking fillers, then Robot Run is a great idea, priced at £7.50, you can find this and lots of other ideas on the Orchard Toys website.
disclaimer: we were sent this game in exchange for an honest review
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I want to share the fun that Robot Run has to offer with you all, and Orchard Toys have offered one lucky reader the chance to win the game for themselves. Complete the Gleam form for your chance to win – good luck!
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Only the first step of this form is mandatory, all other steps are optional. Only one entry per person is allowed.
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Once a winner is randomly picked, I will check if the winner has done what was requested and I will contact them, if they do not reply within one week, the prize will be allocated to another person.
The giveaway will close on 5th October 2015 at midnight.
I would make a rainbow robot and it would dust, sweep, hoover, mop and polish 🙂
It would be sky blue and do all my ironing as hate doing it
i would choose my son’s fav colour – red & it could finish putting my kitchen back together (a lot quicker than the builders!!)
My robot would be pink and would hoover my carpets in straight lines!
Mine would be pink and i would go around and seek out the towels that mysteriously vanish x
My would be yellow and get through mountains of ironing x
Pink and Purple – to tidy my house!
It would be purple, my favourite colour, and it would be able to do all of the household chores!
Luminous pink so I wouldn’t lose it, and I’d use it to hoover and mop up after meal time!
A purple dog walker 🙂
I would build a purple robot that would empty the rubbish, do the ironing and clean the oven daily!
It would be purple to go with my kitchen and would do the washing up for me!
Chamaeleon and would scour the house looking for spiders to remove and leave outside.
My robot will be rainbow coloured and would be my multi functional shopper cleaner cooker and entertainer for the kids to keep them busy too 🙂
Mine would be blue and it would clean my house!
My robot would be all the colours of the rainbow. And her main job would be making everyone smile and be happy. She would also do a bit of ironing and floor washing at the weekends
It would be purple and it would do all the housework, giving me more precious time with my children
My robot would be Gold and she would make my boys their favorite pancakes every morning. I say she because i am the only female in my household and could do with some female chit chat too!!
purple and silver – id use mine as a cleaner, it would do all those chores I hate doing!!
Pink… It would sort, wash, dry and iron my clothes. Not too much to ask I hope 😉
I would like a nice silver one, and it clean my bathroom, my floors and dust.
Robots should be white. Or metalic.
As for what they should do… well, obviously all the boring stuff like cleaning and gardening and all the stuff I don’t like doing.
Mine would be pink and I would use it to do the washing up, the laundry and the vacuuming and mopping.
It would be red and I would like it to do the housework!
I would have a lilac ironing robot.
My robot would be purple and he’d do all the housework for me
I’d have one to cook all healthy meals
green like alien green to make tea ,,green tea
A blue robot able to do the ironing. Have so much to do and it keeps on coming 🙁
I would build a purple housework robot, because I love purple and hate housework!
I dont care about the colour as long as it could clean for me! x
A purple house cleaner 🙂
Mine would be purple and it would clean the loo!!
Mine would be neon pink and i’d use mine to help me clean!
My robot would be cream and pale blue, that way he would blend in nicely in the kitchen when he’s cooking the meals and keeping the kitchen tidy
I would make a yellow and green robot that would pick up all my sons Lego!
It would be Blue and Yellow and do all my hoovering!x
It would be hi vis yellow and it would be able to follow and track wandering kids and keep them out of trouble
A yellow one to do my cleaning please!!
Great review, Orchard Toys games and puzzles are great #tiredtested
I would build a rainbow coloured robot to cheer people up when they are sad.
Purple and it would do DIY around the house
It would be dark grey and just follow me about generally being a PA!
I would paint it pleopard print & i would have it doing all the cooking
What a great colourful game, my son used to love things like this when he was little #triedtested
Mine would be turquoise (my favourite colour) and would do my housework 😉
i’d paint mine yellow and it would do al the cleaning
a purple robot to do my ironing and cook dinner every evening lol .
purple and would do all the housework
brown and green to do all the gardening
a pink robot to do the ironing
A pink robot and it would brush my hair all day.
My robot would have black and white stripes. It would get up early on a weekend, see that little one is up, dressed and had breakfast. Then take him to swimming.
Purple and it would be responsible for changing the cat litter
a oink one to clean my bathroom x
Blue & would do all the cooking!!
Blue – cleaning my house, especially the cooker!
It would be pink and I’d have it do my ironing !!!
I would build a purple robot to do the cooking and dishes afterwards too 🙂
Purple (fave colour) and it would cook dinner!
My robot would be pink and silvery glitter and its main jobs would be to do all my housework!
I would make a robot that would clean the house and do our dishes. I would make the robot blue to be easily found.
I would have a green robot that would have the dinner ready for me when I got home from work
I would build a robot that was duck egg blue to match the accessories in my living room, and it would do all my cleaning 🙂
Blue and to do the chorse
to do the ironing
It would be purple and do housework
We are big Orchard Toys fans, their games are always popular with my kids. Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested
A purple cleaning robot
My robot would be sparkly pink and purple and would clean the house because my life is way too busy for that!
red, as it is my favourite colour, and I would use it for cleaning
Rainbow coloured and the washing up!
I’d love a green robot (as it’s my favourite colour) to do my washing up and the ironing!
a red one to fetch me biscuits
purple 😀 and he would clean my house
I would have a purple one, as I love the colour, to do all the housework!
I’d build a sparkly blue robot who would do all the washing up 🙂
Pink, and I would use it to clean the kids bedrooms
A gold robot to do my housework
Yellow, as it makes me happy, and it would do all of the housework and make a perfect cup of tea.. because that also makes me happy!
A turquoise robot to clean those hard to bother with areas like the toilet!!
Id have a purple robot to do all the housework
Red and it would clean the house and make tea while I was at work
Purple, my favourite colour, and my robot would dust, hoover and paint without making a mess!
bright yellow paint and decorating
Purple to help with the cleaning
I would have a black robot for tidying the kids rooms.
it would have to be purple to help me keep house clean
Purple, I’d use it to clean the house and cook for me
It would be green and I would get it for doing the gardening
I would have a yellow robot and I would use it to do the washing of the clothes, drying,ironing and putting away!
yellow and it would do all the household jobs
Bright pink and would do the ironing 🙂
rainbow it would do all the housework
Mine would be hot pink and black and do ALL my house work!!
A blue robot to do all the housework
I would have a multi coloured robot and would use it for the housework.
It would be pink and it would do all the nasty housework, ironing, changing the beds etc!
Purple as its my favourite colour and would use it to do the bits of house work I hate doing washing the pots ,ironing and putting the washing out 🙂
I would like a purple robot what would pick up after kids and hubby lol 🙂
Purple and pink glitter and it would beautify me every morning in under two minutes
orange and it would answer the phone / door to cold callers and confuse them so much that they never call again
It would be silver, and it would tidy up the kids toys!
An aqua coloured robot to clean the bathroom!
Purple and it would tidy my house
Ours would be Purple and Silver and he would have to be there purely to teach us cool robotic dance moves x
A silver glittery robot named Monty and he would make breakfast for us all everyday so we could spend an extra few minutes in bed! 🙂
I would have a bright red one that would be able to clean up chewing gum from streets.It’s vile and unsightly but there just aren’t funds for council workers to clean it x
It would be silver and glittery and would Hoover and make the beds!
pink and clean the floors
It would be pink and glam, and would help me with the ironing and washing up!
I would have a multi coloured robot, who could cook tea each night and then load the dishwasher after we have eaten.
It would be gold in colour & it would be used to boot the kids up the bottom when they are misbehaving lol 🙂
I would make a pink robot to help me with the house work
Purple and for hoovering
Red, I would have a robot cleaner
yellow…my favourite colour…it would clean my house hahaha
A pink robot to sit with my daughter while she goes to sleep because she gets scared
It’d be hot pink and do all the dishes and household cleaning for me!
A black and white robot to help look after the children in the morning so I could have a lie-in 🙂
Red(my sons favourite colour), it would keep my sons room tidy!
It would be red to go with my kitchen accessories and it would be trained to make wonderful meals at tea time!
It would be a purple picking up after the kids robot !
My robot would be purple & turquoise & it would tidy up, wash the pots & do the laundry (including putting it away because far too often in this house that bit fails to happen) x
Blue – The household chores xx
My robot would be pink and do all of the household chores – and perhaps some babysitting too…
It would be sunshine yellow and be a comedy robot used to pick up people’s spirits on a rainy day 😉
pink with a black apron to do all the housework XD
cleaning and cooking
red and to walk my dog
It would be purple and it would do my housework.
I’d build a blue robot to do the cleaning.
Grandson favourite colour blue so it could clean up after him
A rainbow housework robot
He would be purple and he would definitely be doing the ironing
A grey one who could wash iron tidy…you get the picture
It would be baby blue and would cook dinner!
It would be bright pink and would read stories to me.
It would be red and I would use it to do DIY jobs around the house.
It would be green and good at freestyle dancing
A multicoloured spotty robot to decorate our house
Pink to do the housework!
I’d build a green one as that’s my favourite colour and I’d make it do all my household bits and bobs so I could have lots of playtime with the kids!
It would be orange, and would dig the garden
I would make a Pink robot that would make cakes and serve them to people.
Pink. It would do all the housework!
I would have to have a purple and black robot that could iron
I would have a gold robot that printed money x x
I would make it floral and would have it do all my housework 🙂
Purple to hoover 🙂
A lovely purple robot to do the washing up after a roast dinner.
Living with boys I would love a pink robot who checks the floors for those remaining bits of Lego that get trodden on!
cleaning and would be red so I can see it
Invisible – and I’d send it out to spy on Ryland at school!!
bright yellow and would clean up after the dogs in the garden
Purple and to do ironing and hoovering. Oh how I hate those tasks
a gold robot to clean the toilet!!
Pink and would do superfast ironong
My robot would be blue & I would like it to do the ironong for me.
I would build a bright red robot and I would program it to help tidy up my sons room, but only as long as my son helps otherwise he will never learn to be tidy and independent.
My robot would be purple and it would clean the bathroom.
it would be purple and would sort all the washing and ironing
Purple and for cleaning of course!
A yellow robot for cooking all of our meals
A pink and purple robot after all I live in a house full of four sons and hubby and need help clearing up after them lol x
A yellow 1 that babysits!
I would be happy with a silver one and as long at it does all my ironing I willbe happy
It would be multicoloured with brightly coloured polkadots. It would clean out the guinea pig hutches! (@PeanutHog)
A shabby chic white one and I would get it to paint and decorate!
My robot would be green and I wiuld use it for ironing so I would get more time to play with my daughter!
Pink and to do the ironing
It would be red and it would walk the dog
Green, and I would use him as an assistance robot to pick up things I drop, pull the curtains..etc!
purple to match my living room and it can hoover up after the children for me 🙂
My robot would be lilac and it would change my duvet covers for me.
It would be green and do all of my cooking for me!!
It would be green and keep everything clean
My robot would be pink and it would do all my housework for me
I would like a green one to keep my kitchen and bathroom spotless.
moonstone – for keeping the house germ & dust free
It would be white and it would do all the cleaning and ironing around the house!
id have a pink cleaning robot
a red one for cleaning
My robot would be black and white with a skunk pattern and it would do all the stinky jobs – cleaning the cat litter trays, scooping up Jac’s poop when we are out on a walk, cleaning off the muddy boots and cleaning the toilet
I would have a blue one to do all the cleaning!
I’d have a pink robot that could load & unload the washing machine as well as hang out and sort the tumble dryer for me.
It would be rainbow coloured with lots of sparkle and glittered would do all the housework so I could spend all my time playing andnhving fun with my children
I would have a shiny silver robot that has 3 tasks:
ironing
matching odd socks
cleaning the oven
It would metallic pink and would do the school run (and buy the school uniform and shoes AND label them. Oh and iron them.)
red and I’d use it for cleaning
Mine would be purple and would put all my clean washing away!!
A big purple robot to look after the kids when they are naughty
My robot would be gold like the one off of Star Wars and would drive me to work and back every day while I sleep in the passenger seat. Mmmmmmm….. sleeeeep…..
A green gardening bot.
Definitely a shiny, purple robot!
Purple I think
Pink to sprinkle pink glitter on people to make them smile.
Black, I’d make a sinister looking one that would scare off all my worries! 🙂
It would be green, my favourite colour, & it would be in charge of keeping our kitchen immaculate!
Purple and cleaning 🙂
I would build a robot in my favourite colour – purple – and I would use it to do all my cleaning!
I’d build a green robot specifically for doing the ironing.
My robot would be red, and she would do all of the household chores, and cook dinner and manicure my nails! Xo
Mine would be Cadburys Purple and I would get it to do my housework 🙂
I like shiny copper and would use it for housework.
It would be turquoise and it would cook for me.
I would make a happy yellow robot to go round the house tidying up after the kids!
I would have a pink robot and I would use it to do my decorating
He would be purple and he would pick toys up and put them away and pick playdoh out of my carpet!
Black and i’d use him for cleaning and body massages 🙂
It would be green and I would use him for helping me keep our home tidy : )
It would be pink because I love pink and it would do my housework
Either blue or purple.
A robot to do the housework
Any colour as long as it did the housework, but if I had to choose I would go with Blue
I would build a pink robot (so my daughter gets involved) that cleans the house and cooks the dinner etc
A pink cleaning one!
Pink and it would be my chauffeur
Pink. Would clean my oven and do all the jobs I hate around the house.
It would be very sparkly in a silver glitter finish and would wash my windows inside and out and clean my oven inside and out.
blue and it would always clean my bathroom
My golden robot would do the jobs I’d rather not!
Id love a Purple robot and i’d call it Violet. She’d do all the cleaning and i may even take her on a shopping trip or two to carry my bags