Hoot Owl Hoot!

The board shows a winding path of coloured spaces through a forest at night, ending at the owls' nest. Depending on the level you choose, you start with three, four or six owl figures on the start spaces, and the sun token at the beginning of the sunrise track. Everyone gets three cards, kept face up so the whole team can see them and plan together.

On your turn you play one card and then draw a new one. A colour card lets you fly any owl, not just 'your' owl, forward to the next empty space of that colour. If that space already has an owl on it, you fly over it to the next free space of the same colour, so playing the same colour several times in a row can carry owls a long way.

Sun cards are the timer. If you have one in your hand, you must play it, and the sun moves one step along the sunrise track. When there is no space of the card's colour left ahead of an owl, that owl flies straight into the nest.

The team wins if every owl reaches the nest before the sun reaches the end of its track. If the sun gets there first, everyone loses together, and the rules simply say to set the owls back at the start and try again. As a small bit of fun, the rules also suggest saying 'Hoot!' each time an owl flies over another.

The decisions are small but real: which owl to move, and whether to help a straggler catch up. The rules themselves warn against letting any owl fall too far behind. With three owls the game is gentle, while six owls makes it much harder to beat the sun, so it has some room to grow as your child does.

All copies in India are imports. On 5 October 2026 none of the trusted stores we check had it: Toycra (which does carry other Peaceable Kingdom games), Crossword, Hamleys, Tabletop Universe, Gameistry and Bored Game Company had no listing, FirstCry's search results could not be read, and Board Games India could not be checked. Amazon.in had it only as an expensive import. MindWare sells it for $19.99 in the US, so Indian buyers are paying an import premium.

Hoot Owl Hoot! comes in one standard edition: Peaceable Kingdom's item GM106, with 6 owls, 50 cards (14 sun cards and 36 colour cards), a board and a sun token. Newer printings carry a MindWare copyright, because MindWare bought Peaceable Kingdom in 2017. There is no Indian edition. Toycra stocks other Peaceable Kingdom cooperative games for younger children, including Smoosh and Seek Treehouse (ages 3+, ₹999, in stock) and Panda's Picnic in the Park (ages 2+, ₹899, in stock) on 5 October 2026. Those are different games, not versions of Hoot Owl Hoot!.