This is a game for two players based on the "Ipsey Wipsey Spider" rhyme.
Click to see rhyme.

While playing the game young children count up and down what is, in essence, an unnumbered number-line.

You need a board as illustrated, one counter to represent the spider and an ordinary dice.

To play The Spider and the Rain game

Put the "spider" on the middle square.
One player is the Sunshine and the other is the Rain
They take turns to throw the dice.
The Sunshine makes the spider climb up and the Rain makes it go down.
The Sunshine wins if the spider gets to the top of the drain-pipe and the Rain wins if the Spider gets washed out at the bottom.

Ipsey Wipsey Spider

Ipsey Wipsey Spider
      Climbing up the spout;
Down came the rain
      And washed the spider out:
Out came the sunshine
      And dried up all the rain;
Ipsey Wipsey Spider
      Climbing up again.

Back to the beginning of the game.

You can download the board, the instructions and a spider!

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