Have you been Farkel'ed? Well you might be wondering why we haven't posted to the Blog in 2 and a half months, we haven't because we have been very busy developing our inventory to include more "non-China" toys, testing toys and games (and not just playing Farkel), and we have also been attending to the store and other life/family events.

ASTRA Marketplace was a recent event which we attended and came away feeling that the Specialty Toy industry might be one route to world peace because everyone attending was united and striving to add value to play time and assure the value of the toys we bring to the marketplace are the best quality and value for our customers.

While attending ASTRA Marketplace we reacquainted ourselves with the dice game Farkel. While being a simple game with folk origins, it only uses six dice and a few simple rules. The principle of the game is to use each roll of the dice to gain points. With each consecutive role of the dice, as one's, five's, multiples of threes, pairs, and straights are removed from play, points are earned until the play is passed to the next player, or you "Farkel" with a bad roll (no countable points) and lose any points earned during that turn at play. The player with the most points at the end of the game (when the one(s) losing give up) wins. Simple, easy to carry and store in your pants pocket, this very challenging game for players ages 7 to 100+, and is a great value and good for helping keep your mind fresh and working healthy.