Customer Reviews

I Spy 3-D

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First, the biggest problem: The "glasses" are not very well done cardboard things, the norm for stuff like this, nothing we haven't seen before. But while the box says ages 5+, they don't fit very well on littler heads. My son is nearly 7, and they still don't fit well and makes it more annoying than fun for him to play with this.

However, the 3D cards are actually pretty impressive. You can actually "see" the pictures and such floating above the cards, and when you reach out with your finger, looks like you can slide it underneath. The 3D works very well.

It can be tough, though, to discern the colors on some of the smaller items with the 3d glasses on.

What's not so obvious from the pictures (I'll upload some more so there's more than the default picture) is that there's no board, the big square it shows is actually made up of cards lined up next to each other. There are a lot of cards. :)

So while it's not going to get used too much right now because my son doesn't like the glasses that don't fit very well (would've been nice had they made a couple sizes in there, maybe one or two for smaller heads and the rest for larger ones), as he grows into the glasses I'm sure we'll play with it more.

My 6 year old loves to play this game, and Dad and I enjoy it as well. Who doesn't like 3D? The glasses are a little flimsy and hurt your eyes after a while though.

My son loves I Spy products, so I was excited to see this one. However, the punch out cards weren't completely cut, and the backings ripped on almost every one. Had to do some trimming and taping on a new product - very annoying. Glasses were packaged poorly, making the right lens on every pair bent. The 3-D effect worked, but my son grew quickly bored with it. I wouldn't buy this product again.

I will say the 3-d fx do work...for a hand-full of pictures, you have to lay out all the cards ( you will need a massive table or the kitchen floor) and search for random objects great concept poorly executed. as the title of the review stated. The 10 year old said "this is the worst game ever" we played it once and it's collecting dust on the shelf.

My kids got this game for Christmas. There is a riddle card. One side has the riddle, which is just what the picture is written out in words (for example "A seashell that's blue), the other side has the pictures that need to be found. In general the object is to pick a "riddle" card which has 4 picture riddles and find the 4 corresponding picture tiles. The game board is made up of all the tile cards so each time you play the game board is set up differently. This is good as every time you play, the objects you are looking for are in different places.

There are 4 different ways to play.
Cooperative for ages 3+ where players work together to find the picture tiles and everyone wins
Competitive for ages 4+ one riddle card is drawn and everyone simultaneously looks for the 4 corresponding picture tiles. As you find the pictures on a tile, you keep that tile and the player with the most tiles at the end wins.
Draw for ages 5+ which is like the competitive version except each player picks his own riddle card and looks for the corresponding tile cards. After he finds all the tiles on his riddle card, he picks another riddle card and game continues until all the tiles are found. The person with the most tiles wins.
Solitaire for ages 6+ is just drawing riddle cards and finding the corresponding picture tiles alone.

We have only played the competitive version. My 7 year old and 9 year old love that the game is 3D. Some reviews talk about the flimsy glasses, but honestly if you take care of them you should be fine. Or, the next time you go to the theater and see a 3D movie, instead of recycling the glasses at the theater, bring them home and use them for this game. I like that the board changes each time you play so it's always different and I like that there are multiple ways to play, especially solitaire as the two kids don't always want to play at the same time.

Overall I would recommend this game. The kids have fun, the parents won't mind playing and it doesn't take too long to play nor is it too short.