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Hi Ho! Cherry-O

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Hi Ho! Cherry-O is a children's put-and-take board game for two to four players, now published by Hasbro. Each player starts with an empty basket and ten cherries on a toy tree, and players take turns spinning a spinner that tells them to pick one to four cherries or sends cherries back to the tree through a dog, a bird or a spilled basket. The first player to clear the tree and call out the game's name wins. The design began as a game called Let's Pick Cherries, created by Wisconsin schoolteacher Lorraine Landfried and sold to Whitman Publishing in 1959; Hermann Wernhard and the artist Katrin Lindley adapted it into Hi Ho! Cherry-O, which Whitman produced in 1960. A 2007 update added a cooperative variant, and a classic edition followed in 2015. Its pure-chance spinner makes it a simple counting game for very young players.

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Sport
Game Type (category)
Board Game 1
Game Type (category)
Children's Game 1
Classification
Player Count
Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Origin Year
1960 1
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Source Hi Ho! Cherry-O (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph [origin-region]
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created by an elementary school teacher named Lorraine Landfried from Door County Wisconsin
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1. Hi Ho! Cherry-O (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph
    adapted the game into Hi-Ho! Cherry-O which was produced by Whitman Publishing in 1960
  • Lead paragraph [player-count]
    two to four players spin a spinner in an attempt to collect cherries
  • Lead paragraph [game-type-category]
    is a children's put and take board game currently published by Hasbro
  • Lead paragraph [origin-region]
    created by an elementary school teacher named Lorraine Landfried from Door County Wisconsin
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