Great Game

This is one great game, as mentioned before not great for young kids, but none the less, a great game. Highly recommended.

Disappointment is not the word!

Having played many home games we decided it was time to try and speed things up a bit by the purchase of an auto shuffler. The idea was that while the present hand was concluded someone would shuffle a second deck in the machine. Much to our disappointment the machine only works well every now and then. The mechanism is too simplistic and not at all smooth, it makes a noise like lawnmower running over a rock and overall we decided to stick to shuffling manually. Besides you cant show off with a gadget that doesn't do the job its designed for particularly well. If i were you I would stick to the slight of hand and give this a miss!

Good fun. Good team work. The bad gets to win sometimes

First of all being Ravensburger made you can be assured that this will be well made and well thought out. The board is a delight. As others have said one player is the burglar and the others work together to catch him.
The burglar is much of the time invisible. but between the detectives they need to work as a team to land on his square .
We have all enjoyed it .... and the game has a time limit of 24 rounds ie about 60-75 minutes.
I suspet that this is a game that will survive. Worth buying for children between the ages of 10-80!! Enjoy.

Hullabaloo Madness

My daughter was given this for her 6th Birthday and it has not been put away since. When my daughter is at school my other child and I play it. There is really no limit to the number of folk (adults or children) who could play at one time, so useful to fill in time at a childs party even! I find the television is on less, the girls can play it on their own as it is just so simple, and it is very portable so could be taken and played almost anywhere. The game is made up of 16 plastic pads of various colours and shapes with pictures of food, animals or musical instruments on along with an electronic disc. The electronic part of the game tells you which shape to move to and how to get there, ie slither, hop, jump etc, sometimes you have to put a knee on a blue shape, a hand on a food and a nose on something else (at which point you fall into a heap). Finally the disc tells you to freeze and asks who is on a certain pad, they are the winner and must do a funky monkey dance or take a bow. It then all starts again. Very simple but the kids love it and they use up loads of energy moving from pad to pad. Only drawback is the electronic disc is a little tinny and gets annoying after a while (kids don't seem to notice this!)

crazy about maisy?

I bought this game for my 2 and a half year old daughter. She loved the bright colours and been able to identify the Maisy charecters she's seen in books and on the television.
We have had lots of fun playing this game and spending time together. This is the second game i have bought, my daughter has a friends birthday party coming up and enjoys maisy snakes game so much she wanted her friend to share in the fun too!

Strategy game for two with simple rules

Sometimes known as Reversi, Othello is a great game in itself but (like draughts) is also a useful starting point for children too young to master the complexities of chess. The game can appeal to people of all ages who enjoy strategy games including those who feel intimidated by chess. Meanwhile, chess players who have difficulty finding other chess players of comparable ability can enjoy playing Othello - it is much easier to find suitable opponents for this game.

The rules are simple. The playing area is a squared board. Each square is a space for a plastic disk, which is white on one side and black on the other. To begin with, the four central squares are occupied with two disks showing white and two showing black. Each player has half of the remaining disks, taking turns to place a disk on an unoccupied square with their own color showing, adjacent to a disk showing the opponent's color and in a direct line with one showing the player's own color. The idea is to place the disk in such a way as to allow the player to turn over disks showing the opponent's color to their own color - as many as possible within the rules - while making the opponent's task as difficult as possible. As the game progresses, a player may be able to place a disk next to several showing the opponent's color, opening up lines in different directions and turning a lot of disks over.

People soon learn that being able to place disks in the four corners is often the key to winning the game. If you can get at least three of the four corners showing your color, you will almost certainly win (but not always). So you have to be careful to avoid placing disks in the squares adjacent to the corners, as this gives your opponent a potential opening (even though it may not be immediate).

While six and seven year old children can easily learn the rules, the game is sufficiently interesting (if you like strategy games) that it can entertain people of all ages.

Othello has one significant advantage over chess and draughts - it is not unusual for one player to build up a commanding position only to lose it quickly. In chess and draughts, it is very rare for a player to lose from a commanding position.

disappointed

I bought this for a big family with range of ages. When we’d played an older version the kids cards were much easier and had multiple choice options - this allowed 9 year olds to play against mum and dad. This version, however, doesn’t offer multiple choice and the ’kids’ questions (specified for under 14-year olds) are just too hard! My 12 and 14 year olds can’t answer them, much less the 10 year olds. Very disappointing Christmas evening trying to play this and kids getting frustrated.

More fun than a frisbee by far!

I saw this ball online and bought it for my recent beach holiday without knowing much about it. I have to say that it was fantastic - you can play for hours as it's so addictive trying to perfect your throwing technique. The 'skimming' technique is the hardest to master, but is great as, when you throw it really hard in the sea, depending on the angle that it hits a wave or current it can fly off high in any direction. So you have keep alert so as not get caught off-guard! (This can prove a little lethal with children using the orange variety, as this is a bit heavier apparently than the original red one or the new lighter yellow pool one). My only minor gripe being that by Day 3 of my holiday some of the outer layers of 'rubber'(underneath the material cover) had started to perish...but to be fair it had recieved quite a bit of punishment by then! So I feel that a new Waboba ball for each holiday is not exactly a huge investment to worry about compared to the laughs you can have playing with it. I've recommended this to my friends already...go on, get one....

ziggity

A good game for all the family,especially when you have kids of different ages as it covers all age groups age 7ish upwards.A little time was needed to get used to the game,but within 2 or 3 games it becomes addictive.It comes in a handy tin box and the cards seem to be almost indestuctable,their made of clear plastic and just wipe clean when you get those all too often spilled drinks!

Fun for stoners

Woohoo! Yay!! Look, it's all exciting and changes all the time and..oh. I've/you've/he's/she's won and it's over. Let's play again! Woohoo, it's all exciting and changes all the time and..oh, I've/you've/he's/she's won and it's over. Let's play again! Hmm.. It changes all the time and...oh, I've/you've/he's/she's won and it's over. Let's... either a) put it away, play it again in six months, realise that exactly the same pattern happens every time, and then never bother with it again; or b) engage in further use of narcotics, whereupon it is possible to start again at the"Woohoo! Yay!!.." stage.

FANTASTIC

This is such a GREAT GAME! I can't tell you how funny it is and how quickly you pass the time....and you definitely get the creative juices flowing! We played it with a group of five and of seven, both of which were fine sizes. Probably not a best one for under 12's or just two people. Its a little like 'Call My Bluff' (the TV programme) and its fantastic - set yourself up for A LOT of laughter and enjoyment. Definitely a must have.