Jogo das Sombras

In these card game for children, the players have usually 22 transparent cards with showing several animation characters, and the same amount of cardboard cards picturing only the contour of the same animation characters shown on the transparent cards. The goal of the game is to make the combination of the transparent cards with the corespondent "shadow" cards, stimulating logical thinking, form and pattern recognition. All shadow cards are shuffled and placed open in the table, and the transparent cards are also shuffled and placed in the table. All players try to make at the same time the maximal amount of matches combining one transparent and one shadow card. The player with most matches at the end is the winner. in another play variant all the transparent cards are open in the table and the shadow cards are shuffled and open one at a time. The fastest player to find the correspondent transparent card wins a point.