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The Ultimate Game Night for Dog Lovers
Good Friends. Great Dogs. Even Better Game Nights.
About the Book
Bring laughter to your next gathering with 425 dog-themed activities for 3–6 players. Inside you’ll find trivia, riddles, pantomimes, logic puzzles, word games, light physical challenges, and phone-based tasks, all inspired by dogs. Designed for ages 11 and up, Canine Capers turns any game night into a tail-wagging mix of fun, friendly competition, and surprising canine facts.
Gary Althaus spent 35 years in the classroom, where his love of teaching, games, puzzles, and dogs inspired this lively interactive book. Meet Gary
What’s Inside
Straight from the back cover: here’s the mix of activities waiting inside Canine Capers.
How to Play
From the Directions page of Canine Capers.
Have at least one phone handy for some activities, and choose someone to keep score.
They read aloud who should do the activity (“Ask the shortest player”), then the activity itself.
Get it right and you earn the points listed. Get it wrong and the reader receives that score.
Play the top activity on each page; save the bottom ones for future games. A game is 25 activities, about 35 minutes.
Highest score wins. In a tie, roll a die or flip a coin. Skip an activity? Swap in one from the Bonus Activities.
Take a Look Inside
These come from the sample pages Gary published for readers. Each activity tells you who plays, what to do, the answer and the points.
Ask the player whose birthday is closest to Veterans Day.
True or false. A dog was never an official mascot for the Olympics.
False. Waldi, a dachshund, was a mascot for the 1972 Olympics.
1 point
Canine Capers · Game 1 · Activity 1
Ask the player two places to your left.
What is the famous dog sled race in Alaska?
Iditarod
2 points
Canine Capers · Game 1 · Activity 2
Ask the player closest to the age of 40.
What is the dog’s name in the comic strip “Garfield?”
Odie
1 point
Canine Capers · Game 1 · Activity 3
Set a timer for 20 seconds. Ask the player at your left.
In 20 seconds, name a dog breed that rhymes with “got wilder.”
Rottweiler
1 point
Canine Capers · Game 9 · Activity 4
The sample was published with the original edition of Canine Capers.
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