Millburn, NJ (August 19, 2008) – Move over Sam Spade and Miss Marple. The smartest private eye may be the kid next door as Briarpatch launches its popular I SPY game series with a P.I. twist for little sleuths. I Spy Private Eye has all the intrigue a detective can handle and true to the brand, makes learning fun!
“After kids across America have sharpened their observation skills with I SPY Eagle Eye, we decided to launch a game that would put those skills to the test for would-be detectives,” remarked Marc Shinderman, General Manager of Briarpatch. “Private Eye also borrows from I SPY Memory, because kids have to remember the pictures that they have spied, so this product taps the very best that I SPY can offer.”
Based on Scholastic’s best-selling book series, this I SPY game challenges kids to remember what they have spied. Place nine picture blocks into the Jumbler, shake up the blocks and press the timer…now open the lid, you have 30 seconds to memorize the I SPY pictures on the blocks before they are hidden from view. “Beep, Beep”…time to examine the evidence! Choose an I SPY picture card and find all the images that match the blocks and score points…but watch out for a challenge!
Each I SPY Private Eye game includes nine I SPY picture blocks, a Jumbler with built-in 30 second timer, 24 I SPY Cards, a magnifying glass token (for challenges) and complete rules. Created for two to four players, ages 5+, the game has a suggested retail price of $24.99.
About Briarpatch
Briarpatch’s strong legacy of stimulating children’s lives through fun and eco-friendly products has earned the company over 270 industry awards (and counting). Since its founding, the company’s cofounders applied environmentally conscious business practices in such innovative ways as using vegetable and soy-based inks and post consumer materials.
A key ingredient to Briarpatch’s success has been to combine fun with learning. Both parents and children adore the exciting new licenses and products that Briarpatch continually brings to market. Few game and puzzle companies can boast a green thumb while enriching childhood. For more information about all Briarpatch board, puzzle, card and travel games, click on www.briarpatch.com.
GreatDad I Spy Game Contest
Win a Briarpatch I Spy Private Eye game. Just tell us what’s the funniest pregnancy-related story you have heard. Send in your entries using the comment form below. Contest ends on 3rd September, 2008.
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Contest Update: The contest is closed. See the winner’s page.
My husband thought it was hysterical that I didn’t know I was in labor and just thought I had annoying back stiffness and demanded that he take me shopping for a certain CD that I had to have RIGHT now. While in the parking lot of Target my water broke, much to my surprise, but I still insisted on getting that CD before heading to the hospital.
My cousin was speeding trying to get his wife to the ER before she delivered-he lost control of the car, jumped the curb and smashed right throught the hospital sign. Mother and baby were fine, car was totalled!
All I’m gonna say is that I was about 8 months pregnant & went through the McDonalds drive thru…..got home and discovered I had no sweet and sour sauce! I cried fro 40 minutes! In hind sight, I suppose it was much funnier than the 3 day depression I entered after watching Cold Mountain.
My hubby was picking me up at work in the winter when I was about 8 months pregnant and I walked around to get in the passenger side. He glanced at me through the side window of the car,looked down to put the key in and looked back and I was gone. He said it was like a split second. He came around the car and I was sitting down on the ice on my rump laughing. I had slipped and fallen just that fast. It might not seem funny but I had caught my fall and it was fine and I was checked out and all was well. It was just funny because one minute he saw me and then the next I had vanished.
I’m five documents along.
Whenever we hear a good joke, we reply “I’m crowning, I’m crowning!” which is what the spouse kept saying in the delivery room.
When I was pregnant My girlfriend and I was discussing my pregnancywhile waiting in line. The clerk asked would you like you like to doublesize that . I and everybody cracked up. The poor teen relized what he had said. His face turned beet red.
When I was pregnant with son #3, my then 6 year old was asked what he thought about being a big brother again. He looked the nice older lady right in the face, put his hands on his hips and narrowed his big blue eyes and said, “Well, its about time someone asked ME what I thought about it! I say NO WAY, no more babies!”
The lady’s jaw hit the ground, I turned 3 shades of red and we quickly shuffled away.
I had a meeting with a woman whom I was told by someone was 9 months pregnant. She walked in and I said you certainly don’t look like you are about to pop, She said…that;s because I already had the baby!!!
My sister’s brother-in-law called during his honeymoon to say that he and his new wife were very upset because they had just taken a pregnancy test and they were not pregnant. They had just stopped using birth control that week and thought the test would be immediate!
we have a set of twins and i am pregnant again. we are waiting for a sonogram and my husband says, this is it for me. and i said i wanted 4 and he said, well you better have twin now. and 10 minutes later, we found out we were having twins again!! i laughed and laughed! he didnt!
Well, because I was getting high blood sugar, the doctor decided to do an amnio. I was getting hooked up the the machines, before he was going to insert the ginormous needle, I felt like I was going to pass out. Whenever I feel like that at home I head for the nice cool bathroom floor to lay on, so I ripped off all the monitor lines and ran until I found the bathroom and I layed down. A few minutes later, the nurse came to the door and asked if I would like a sheet to wrap up in for my trip back to the room. It was only at that moment that I realized that I had run through the waiting room with my gown flopping wide open in the back 🙂
My sister, Sandie, had a seizure just after having been admitted to the hospital for the birth of her third child. The gave her medication to stop the contractions while they did some testing trying to find out why she had the seizure. Hours later, when they still couldn’t find an answer and Sandie hadn’t had another seizure, the put her on Pitocin (not sure of spelling) to re-start the contractions. Sandie had her first son in less than three hours, and her second son in less than 90 minutes after contractions, so I wasn’t suprised when, after having had her first contraction, she had me call the nurse in to say the baby was coming and she needed to get the doctor in right away. The nurse blew Sandie off as if she was a 1st timer who had no clue and said she’d be back to check in on things in 10 or 15 minutes. Less than a minute later, Sandie had her second contraction and told me to grab the doctor because the baby was nearly there. I peeked under the sheet, saw the top of a head and ran to get someone to help. The nurse looked at me like I was nuts when I literally RAN back to the room, but she got the hint and sped up her response. She took one peek under the sheet, went white and started SCREAMING for the doctor while using the palm of her hand to hold the baby in until he got there. The doctor came at a run and slid half-way across the room and nearly went face first into the wall. Sandie had one more contraction and the baby was there. My niece took a total of three contractions and less than 5 minutes to be born.
1 seizure, 1 astounded and apologetic nurse, 1 shocked and nearly flattened doctor, 3 contractions in less than 5 minutes, and a beautiful baby girl entered the world… priceless!
A friend’s husband had morning sickness
When I was pregnant with my first child, I craved chili-cheese dogs from Dairy Queen…they tore down the Dairy Queen right after I gave birth…my business must of kept them in business?
My daughter had a baby in Juno of 08. And the funniest thing was when she was in the hospital for testing, she actually ended up almost having the baby on a bed pan. The nurse came in just on time to catch the baby. No doctor, no set up. Just a nurse cathcing a very anxious baby!
Being soooo big toward the end of my pregnancy I could not see my feet. And of course one day I wore two different shoes to work!!!
well when i was pregnant with my daughter both of our families wednt out to dinner together. i have a five year old sister and she understood i was pregnant and there was a baby inside my tummy. well when she saw my husbands dad for the first time she went up to him and rubbed his belly and asked if he was pregnant too. ( he is a overweight) he simply laughed and said no i got a watermelon up my shirt so she lifted his shirt up and said i dont see a watermelon.
I would like to win this, but I have no funny stories.
My friend told me a kid asked her if she had a basketball in her belly. ;0P
This is gross and funny, but close to home because it happened to me. I threw up all the time during my pregnancy, and before my doc took notice that I kept losing weight and gave me magical drugs, I had to come up with something to eat that tasted good the second time around. It was tough, but I found something: apples. So there you go…
My friend fell outside in the snow and couldn’t get up. Everybody was in the house and didn’t notice she was gone for awhile.
My wife’s dr. had a very poor bedside manner. When she was in the hospital in active labor, he was pretty rude about her complaining about her pain. Well when he broke her water, it wound up splashing all over him. Must say, it helped my wife a little making his life uncomfortable for awhile.
My wife’s dr. had a very poor bedside manner. When she was in the hospital in active labor, he was pretty rude about her complaining about her pain. Well when he broke her water, it wound up splashing all over him. Must say, it helped my wife a little making his life uncomfortable for awhile.
Hey, what about us adoptive mommies?
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Honey, sit down. I have some news for you.
What is it?
Well, I don’t know how to say this, so I’ll just come out with it. I went to the mailbox today and… well, we got a 171-H.
A what?!? A 171-H? As in, we’re going to have a(nother) baby?!?
It looks that way.
But how? We’ve been so careful! I put away all the blank I-600A forms. Didn’t you hide our homestudy update?
Of course I did, but don’t forget, there was that one night…
What night? (pauses) Ohhh, that night, But it was only once. We were just messing around. I didn’t print clearly. I didn’t even use ink! (pauses again) But it was kind of fun. (giggles).
It was, wasn’t it? I’ll never forget how cute you looked getting your fingerprints. So now we’ve got our 171-H, eh? But that doesn’t always mean you’ll adopt, does it? I mean, shouldn’t you see the agency or something, make sure everything’s okay?
I already did.
And?
I’m five documents along.
Five documents! And they’re all notarized, certified and authenticated okay?
Just great. There was one small scare when the agency couldn’t see the Notary’s middle initial but it showed up just fine under the magnifying glass.
Thank God.
And you, honey? Are you feeling okay?
I’m feeling fine. As long as I know you’re happy about this.
Happy? I’m thrilled! It’s always a shock at first when something like this happens, but of course I’m happy.
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I was always warned that being pregnant and in the third trimester could put alot of ‘pressure’ on your bladder. So far I’m doing well…I’m just horrified at the thought that I’ll sneeze and pee myself in public.
My wife tried to throw a bowling ball. She fell flat on her big fat belly. Thankfully she did not hurt the baby.
My wife had a dream when she was pregnant with our first son that the baby came out and it was a girl but it had my man size head and a bearded face that matched mine. The bearded manly baby pretty much, LOL!!
When my wife was pregnant, we were driving to the Chinese restaurant and all of a sudden she started to cry. I asked her what’s wrong, she said just remembered the beach where we got married and how she misses it and the ocean and cliffs…She was crying and laughing at the same time, because she knew she was being silly about it, but she couldn’t stop. Needless to say, at the restaurant we arrived, and my wife looked like such a mess. Her eye-make up and mascara was just all over her face, nose red, boogers everywhere, whet top of the dress…The guy looked at me with such contempt as if I etiher beat my wife or if I made her so upset….I felt so horrible and my wife was laughing at me for thinking what other people thought of us. Uhg. 🙂
What a great prize.
Thanks for such an excellent contest!
One day my boyfriend found some pregnancy tests in a box of junk that some people brought in to his friend’s mom’s thrift shop, and he decided to take one. It turns out that he wasn’t pregnant, but the next day, his mom found the open pregnancy test in her trashcan and started to get really sick, thinking that her son had possibly gotten me pregnant. My boyfriend didn’t know what to do, so he just said, “Mom, I’m not pregnant!”
A friend of mine was hugely pregnant and standing in line at a grocery store. Her brother was shopping there also and came up to her in the grocery line and asked loudly “Did you ever get married” as a joke.
OK…t’was me…who should have know better…asked my daughter’s teacher, at the beginning of the school year, if she were pregnant..and alas was not.
great gift for my son.
Soemone once commented to my wife that she was having twins, we weren’t.
My kids would like this. I dont have a story.
No story here- just hope I win this for my kiddies:)
A friend was being induced. Her husband was holding her arm so tightly that the medicine was not getting thru. When he let go she got a major rush.
The funniest story I can tell you related to being pregnant was when my sisternlaw went into a local coffee shop, and the clerk asked her when she was having that baby, And the baby was already 3 months old! lol