Simba's Pride had a great time playing our first Card Games. We were so excited when this format was brought back as we missed it the first time around.
Hidden quest. Genius. (No, we didn't find it. Situational awareness is NOT our strong point. The hidden quest T-shirt could have been right in front of us and we wouldn't have seen it.)
Started in Downtown Disney, gambled with the quarter and lost, got the Q and K and not quite enough of the point cards but felt we needed to move on. Went from there to our first attempt at Deuces Wild, got gibberish and decided to go into Disneyland and try again later.
Disneyland went well for us. Pretty sure we only missed one each of the point cards of Shields and Masks (found Mechanical Kingdoms after we'd already turned in, and never found the Dr Jones crate). Did all of the face cards there except gave up on the library one on Main Street (holy, we definitely do not think like Alex!) I thought charades would be much more time consuming than it was, MA staff had the organization down on that one! I worked the Queen word search and Danielle did trivia while Kevin was on the raft to the island. Yay, multitasking.
After DL we tried again at Deuces Wild and almost gave up until we figured out BOTH of our mistakes. #1 - we hadn't counted the hexagon bricks with no names on them, so were in the wrong section. #2 - I was crossing off the states we found, rather than including / keeping them (even after so many years playing, READ EVERYTHING strikes again.) Once I realized that mistake it was a fairly easy decode. Felt like Amazing Race finding the bike with the card on it! Got the answer and then stood in the very long line to enter DCA for the last hour of the game.
DCA strategy was to grab a few quick point cards (ended up getting 4 of them), and make sure we turned those in by 4pm so we could get all the face cards. Teresa had a good laugh at my expense when we managed to assemble the Route 66 puzzle on my clipboard, then the wind caught it when I stood up and it fell all over the ground and a not-Disney-friendly word may have escaped my mouth. Thought the K and Q were relatively easy but we were thankful at that point in the game.
I know everyone has their preferences but we definitely love the games where there's too much to do and you have to strategize to finish. Thanks to the awesome MA staff at every station. We'll be back on the Dark Side for the fall... going forward we'll be staff from now on other than Invitationals, at least until the cubs are old enough to play.
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