Emotional
Detective™
The Apple · The Orange · The Pepper Method
The same three ideas the books hand a young person — Apple, Orange, Pepper — now land on the table as a game. Players travel the world as feelings detectives, reading what a moment is really made of and naming it out loud, together.
- 2 – 6Detectives
- 7 +Ages
- 20 – 40 minA round
- Apple · Orange · PepperMethod
Three clues, one language
Every feelingleaves evidence.
Apple, Orange and Pepper are the whole method in three images — pointed at long before a child can explain them. Pick up a card to read what each one is really telling you.
Open the box
What's inside
Everything a detective needs on the table.
- 1 game board
The world board
An around-the-globe track ringed with case spaces, from Big Ben to the Statue of Liberty.
- 40+ cards
The Feeling Wheel
Spin it to read the room — the deck that turns a vague mood into a word you can say.
- 3 figures
Apple · Orange · Pepper
Three mood figures that give each feeling a shape small hands can pick up and point to.
- 6 pawns
Six detective pawns
Explorers in safari hats — one for every player who joins the case around the table.
- 1 notebook
Inspector Notebook
Where a detective writes down what they noticed, in the same reflective habit the journals teach.
- tokens + shield
Heart tokens & shield
Collect hearts for reading a feeling kindly; the shield keeps a hard moment from winning.
- print & play
Game sheets
Printable case sheets so a class or a family can keep playing long after the first night.
- quick-start
How to Play
One short guide. Five minutes to set up, a lifetime habit of naming what you feel.
Not a game youwin alone.
A detective does not judge a scene. They look closely, gather what is there, and name it. Emotional Detective puts that same posture in a child’s hands: spin the Feeling Wheel, read the case, decide whether the moment is an Apple, an Orange or a Pepper — and talk about why. No winners sent home feeling small; the whole table grows the same vocabulary at once.
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The Apple · The Orange · The Pepper Method. Reserve your edition now — pick how many you need and we’ll hold them for the first print run. Perfect for a family shelf, a classroom, or a counsellor’s room.
Choose your edition
- Everything in the Standard Case
- Cloth world board & metal heart tokens
- Signed Inspector Notebook
- Early-access print run
How many to reserve
Reserving holds your copy for the first print run. Pricing is confirmed closer to release — nothing is charged now.
The work beginswith being seen.
The same idea behind every book David has written — now something a whole table can play.