Rainbow Rage: It Gets Players Taming Rainbows

Rainbow Rage has a very angry looking rainbow on the front of the box … trust me, after 20 minutes of playing this game you too will share that aarrgghh face! It is SO frustrating! It’s a very simple game, but really difficult if your brain is wired like mine seems to be …

OK, let me explain what’s inside the Rainbow Rage box. There’s a pile of rainbow-shaped cards. Some are easy, some harder (don’t mix them up). On these cards are colour bands of the rainbow, but with some changes to the ‘proper’ order. There are also seven stacks of same-coloured blocks – red, green, blue, yellow, orange, pink and purple.

To set Rainbow Rage up, lay out the rainbow stacks in the right rainbow configuration (use the box for guidance). Have the cards (easy or difficult) ready and decide who is turning the first card over. The object of Rainbow Rage is to QUICKLY work out what two colours on the rainbow card have been switched around. If you are the first to guess, say, that orange and yellow have swapped places (and assuming you are right), you get to take one of the bricks off the orange and yellow stacks. You’ve then started to build your own rainbow. However, if you shout out early and get it wrong – you lose your collected blocks and have to start again. You keep playing until you win enough times to complete your own rainbow. By the way, the difficult cards – replace difficult with impossible!

It soon became very apparent that I’m rubbish at Rainbow Rage. My kids were shouting out (correct) answers while I was just starting to methodically work my way along the line of colours. I was just SO slow compared to them. And yes it infuriated me! I couldn’t compete with a 10 and 8 year old for crying out loud! And yes, I threw my toys out the pram and stomped off more than once … I didn’t stand a chance, and I came last.

Rainbow Rage is the brainchild of Matt Edmondson, the radio DJ and TV presenter. I hope he knows that he’s just destroyed the fantasy and beauty of a rainbow and that they will now be considered as evil and stress-inducing …

Now my kids LOVED Rainbow Rage. I’m sure it had something to do with getting a kick out of seeing mum ‘perplexed’. Children’s brains clearly unmuddle puzzles like this quicker than more mature ones … I daren’t say what this game would be like if all-adults played … ouch, it would be bedlam!

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