National Public Radio
All Things Considered
December 12, 2000
USA

This is an excerpt from Linda Wertheimer's interview with Judy Cockerton, Owner of the No Kidding! toy stores in Brookline and Mattapoiset Massachusetts.

WERTHEIMER: . . . Is there something new in games for, say,10-, 12-year-old kids?

Ms. COCKERTON: Yeah. There are two fabulous games. There's one called Apple to Apples Junior, and it's designed for kids kind of seven through 11, and then there's the Apple and Apples plain version, which is designed for kind of 12 and up. And it's a game of comparisons that's really fun to play with a group. So basically a family sits down and one person is chosen to be the judge, and they pick a particular card that might say 'noisiest,' for example, and then everybody who's playing picks a card from another pile, and maybe one person picks 'grandpa' and another person picks 'motorcycle' and another person picks 'hummingbird' and so forth and so on. And the judge picks which one is the noisiest, and you trade...

WERTHEIMER: Grandpa, clearly.

Ms. COCKERTON: Exactly. So you trade off judges, and it's just really fun and kind of raucous.

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