Customer Reviews

Horse Show

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My 10 yr. old daughter got this game last Christmas, and really enjoys it! This is a card game format and players draw horse cards to use in game play, for different horse show events and competitions. Players need to use logical thinking when deciding what card(s) to play during the various events of a show (each horse has strengths and weaknesses). Each game is fairly quick (another plus!), but once players start, it's hard to stop after just a couple of games :-) This game would be especially enjoyable to horse-lovers!

I love this game! Although it doesn't teach much about the horses themselves, players can learn about the different disciplines. Very cute pictures of the horses! Like Herd Your Horses, this deserves to be a classic horse game that you can play again and again with horsey or non-horsey friends. Use strategy to determine which horse to enter into which class with which accessories. 'Horse Show' takes a little while to learn, but after that it moves quickly. If I could change one thing about this game, I would put information on the personalities, talents, etc. for each horse on the backs of the cards, like Herd Your Horses does. But it's fun to make up personalities, breeds, experience levels and other things for the horses and pick your favorites. If you're looking for an exciting horsey game to play, try 'Horse Show'.

My 10 year old daughter received this as a gift; of all the games she got for birthday/Christmas, this was in the top five. The game requires some strategy -- at the random draw of a card, you must choose which horse to compete in that event. Each horse has varying degrees of strength in four different categories, but can only be used once in the game. As the players progress through each event, they must use weaker horses -- this is where the strategy comes in, as players must think in advance about the best way to use their stable of horses. The "right" answer is not necessarily to use the strongest horse each time. For additional complexity, there are also equipment cards that boost the strength of a horse in a single turn. Adults won't find this game particularly hard, but interesting enough to make it fun to play with your kids.

Yes, Horses, Cards, and Fun all mixed together is definetly what I would call this masterpeice in Family Games. Illustrations are detailed and beautiful. Although you don't learn very much about the horses themselves, you can determine the four main classes of Showing. Horse Show will get you more interested in horses tham you ever have before, and I assure you any horse enthusiast, or someone who doesnt even have anything to do with horses, would spend hours of fun competing in Dressage, Equitation, Jumoer, and Hunter events.

You need to be old enough to look at a set of several horse cards and decide which kind of horse show a particular hose would do best in and which horse you would get the most points for if you had that particular horse compete in a dressage show, jumper show, ect. points are added up and who evers horse earned the most points wins that horse show and that player gets to keep the cards. So I would say ages 8 to 12, but younger children could play with help from someone who can read and add up numbers.

There is a limited amount of rounds in a game, since there is a limited number of cards to play for each horse show so the game last around 15 minutes or so. I like this part a lot, since games like war "Chomp" can go on forever.

It does take a table top to play the game, I originally purchased the game for my daughter thinking she could play it on the bus with a friend, but you need to have a surface to lay out some cards. I quess you could try to squeeze them onto a larger text book laid onto your lap. But it wouldn't be easy.

This is a card game. It revolves around each player playing a card (which represent horses) in 'events' which are turned up in a random order. The highest scoring horse in the event turned up wins. Sounds straight forward, but each horse has different abilities, there is an element of chance in the hand that you are dealt, the event is turned up at random and there may be specific bonuses or penalties on each event. The result is that everyone from the simplest (who pick their horses on the wonderful pictures) to the most sophisticated strategic player, has a chance of winning.

The game teaches planning and strategy, forward thinking, patience with the other players, and the acceptance of winning and losing.

I thoroughly enjoy playing this with my eight year-old daughter and her friends. Our six year-old is not a confident reader yet, and reading is required for this game so she is not into it yet.

This is a nice card game for girls 7 and up. It features 4 equestrian themed 'events' (Jumper, Hunter, Equitation, Dressage) - and the object is to collect blue ribbons. Players take turn alternating who hosts a show - and depending on the number of players, there will be 3-4 events per show. Certain horses in your hand will have a better chance than others in certain shows - and some horses have penalties for a particular ribbon. There is a bit of strategy - but not so much that younger children are at a disadvantage against older kids or their parents.

My daughter really likes the horse theme and the cards have lovely images on them. In all, we greatly enjoyed this game!

My daughter is completely and totally in love with horses...everything she does seems to involve them. So when I saw this game on Amazon, I knew I had to get it. Not only does she LOVE it, but it is educational as well. Great quality and value. I definately recommend this game for any child whose life revolves around horses!!

I bought this game years ago for my daughter. Now 12 years old, she still likes playing it. There is a little strategy, and a little luck. The cards are decent quality and colorful.

It is simple enough to "throw" the game if your younger ones are losing and becoming a bit irritated at their bad luck.

The rules are easy to understand once you get the idea of what is going on. The cards are colorful. The game can be played quickly. This is a decent game for any kid who likes horses.

This is a very fun game. I think it is for ages 7 and up.