Stone Soup

A bluffing card game, Stone Soup helps children plan ahead and predict, read other people’s faces, and learn when to take a risk. Bluffing is a skill that most children begin to develop at about age eight. Once they discover there are clues to what others may be thinking, and that they can fool them sometimes, they become fascinated by the bluff. Stone Soup lightens the deception with a warm and humorous narrative from the familiar folk tale.

Follow the sequence and take turns adding food cards to the pot. First potatoes, then tomatoes, and so on. Out of the right ingredient? Pass your turn with a dash-of-salt card or dare to bluff. You’ll have to sneak to get rid of your stone cards – slip one into the pot and double your risk. Be the first to play all of your cards and win. When the game is over, follow Sally Sampson’s Stoneless Stone Soup recipe to cook up a real pot of soup!