A seventies and eighties school playground ‘hit’ has been resurrected to help care for wildlife protected by the National Trust.
Top Trumps – the card game where players try to ‘trump’ their opponent by having the highest value of a subject – has a new British Wildlife series, designed and chosen by the National Trust’s conservation experts.
The game is an ideal summer game for children, where players can decide which native species is top of the pack.
The card game features 30 British wildlife cards ranging in topic from the Adder – found on many coastal cliffs - to the Raft Spider – which lives live in wet marshy places in southern Britain and are all creatures which can be found living in land protected by the National Trust.
Players win by gaining top points for creature’s rarity, ability to move, ferocity and lifespan. In addition, youngsters can discover weird and wonderful facts like the seemingly harmless fish Pike which can in fact kill and eat small ducks and what the Purple Emperor butterfly does with dog mess.
The 30 creatures selected for Top Trumps were chosen by National Trust wildlife experts, including Matthew Oates, who said: “Top Trumps is a great way to find out how exciting our wildlife is, even the stingy, bitey, pooey kinds.
“Not all the animals in this pack are pretty, many can be mean and nasty, but none of them are boring. Some of them are very rare and hard to see, several are common everywhere.
“We hope this game will help both children and parents to develop a love for the incredible wildlife in the UK because the survival of so many creatures depends on us.”
Top Trumps follows the successful National Trust Monopoly launched last year which gave people the chance to buy up their favourite places and develop visitor centres and holiday cottages.
A second National Trust Top Trumps game will be on sale soon called ‘30 Great Days out’, featuring historic buildings and exciting activities.
The game of Top Trumps originated from the game of Quartets that was originally designed as a teaching tool for children. The game, which lost popularity in the late 1980s, was resurrected in 2000 and in the last 10 years it has sold over 40 million packs.
Top Trumps can be found in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong Taiwan, Malaysia, South Africa, the Middle East, USA, Canada, Spain, France Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Iceland, and available in many different formats from an iPhone app to paperback book and video game.
All money from sales of National Trust Top Trumps goes to supporting the conservation work carried out by the Trust.
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