🎭 Fortunately, Unfortunately

How to play Fortunately, Unfortunately, the long way

Tap for a first line and let Peabody read it. The next player says a "Fortunately" line, the next an "Unfortunately" line, taking turns round the car.

Each line must follow the one before and start with the right word. The fun is in the rescues: the worse the unlucky line, the cleverer the lucky one has to be.

Keep the bad luck silly, not scary: a lost shoe, a sneezing elephant, a rain of spaghetti. After a few rounds, the last player ends it with a final "Fortunately".

The game teaches something without trying: every bad turn in a story can be followed by a good one. Children who get upset when a plan goes wrong often love being the one who rescues the story with a "fortunately". Let the youngest player have the lucky lines for a while, and let the big kids try to make the unlucky ones as silly as they can.

By age

🧸 3–5: Too tricky for most threes and fours; they can shout "fortunately!" or "unfortunately!" and a grown-up says the line.

🎒 6–9: Six to nine love it. Let the grown-up take the unlucky lines at first.

🎧 10+: Big kids can play fast: answer before the count of five.

When it goes wrong

• Someone forgets which word comes next: the screen says it. Lucky after unlucky, always.
• The bad luck gets too scary: anyone can say "fortunately, it was all a dream" and start a new story.
• One player keeps going on and on: one sentence each.

Questions families ask

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