You may have seen Scott in the press or on TV recently in articles about his board game invention, Animal Advent-ure™. Scott designed the game in December 2008 (aged 7) whilst he was off school ill, using an old chocolate advent calendar and affixing a painting he’d done of a pirate treasure map adventure hunt. He cut out the openings where the chocolates had once been and filled the caverns with left-overs from Halloween such as jelly snakes, chocolate eyeballs and plastic skeletons. Over the months that followed, Scott designed several other themes for the game such as a Mothers’ Day and Valentine’s Day and an Easter Egg Hunt version; the rest, as they say, is history.

On the back of his success in the JLB awards, Scott was invited to Chicago in November 2010 to enter The Young Toy and Game inventor of the Year Award with the opportunity to present his game to the likes of Hasbro and Disney. Whilst there, Scott appeared on t.v. with John Ratzenberger (of Toy Story and Cheers fame) and he has become quite a little celebrity in his own right.

In August 2010 Scott received the first manufactured stock of his fantastic Animal Advent-ure™ game and he appeared on the 6 o’clock news on STV. Since then, the game has been sold from venues such as Edinburgh Zoo and very recently Scott was invited to present his game to top buyers and press officers at Harrods in London who now stock his game.

His website www.adventureboardgames.co.uk has been constructed as a vehicle to sell the game and other products that have been manufactured as spin-offs such as character mouse mats and collectable key rings (that double as playing pieces and trolley tokens).

In an effort to ‘give something back’ Scott wants to give children in difficult situations free games to help them communicate with their friends and families and have a little fun too.