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Help your child learn to spell at home with this super fun game

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Lockdown learning has become the norm for almost a year now with parents racking their brains for ideas on how to keep their children entertaine­d and educated while out of school.

Finding fun ways to teach you child how to spell is a tough call but games company Waddington­s No. 1 of London has come up with a magic solution.

Lex-GO is a super-fast fun game, suitable for players aged eight and upwards that will help to improve your child’s spelling and vocabulary.

In this game, children race against other players to In this game race against other players to get rid of their word tiles by swapping letters and even stealing your opponents’ tiles.

There are two versions; Harry Potter and Disney and both include special tiles that help young players to win the game.

Harry Potter has these four wizard tiles ...

EXPELLIARM­US - disarm another player by messing up their tiles.

DEPULSO - banish one of your tiles from the round if you need to.

REVELIO - allows the holder to look at any number of tiles in the draw pile before choosing which to swap.

STUPEFY - choose a player to close their eyes and count out loud for ten seconds before they rejoin the round.

The POLYJUICE tile may be nominated as any letter in a word. Once used in a word the player must announce what letter it is and it remains that letter. throughout the round.

Disney has four special magic tiles ...

GENIE - your wish is granted! You can take a total of any three tiles from any other player.

WRECK IT RALPH - it’s time to wreck it! Shuffle one player’s words.

OLAF - whoops! Olaf walked over your tiles and now they’re frozen in place for ten seconds.

ARIEL - here’s one to add to your collection! You can take any tile from another player if it completes a word for you.

The MICKY tile may be nominated as any letter in a word. Once used in a word the player must announce what letter it is and it remains that letter throughout the round.

Harry Potter and Disney Lex-GO! are available on Amazon website, priced £14.99.

Waddington­s No. 1 of London is an iconic British brand that has been around for more than 130 years.

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