Leaping Lizards

by Gamewright

Product Features

• Ages 3 and up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 5.8 x 5.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009XBY2Q
• Item model number: 405
• Manufacturer recommended age: 5 - 8 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,502 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The colorful game of racing reptiles. It's a leap-to-the-finish in this colorful game of fast-moving reptiles. Choose a secret creature card, shake the cup and pour out the picture tiles. Move your lizard forward or backward depending on what the tiles show. But look before you leap or else you could wind up at the back of the line! The first player to jump to the finish is the king chameleons. Ages 5 . 2-4 player and includes 18 wood beads, 16 secret creature cards, 11 picture tiles, 4 wood lizards, 1 string, shaker cup and rules of play (No reading required). Games play time is approx. 15 minutes.

Product Description

Leaping Lizards is a fun and colorful game that will keep you guessing. You can jump right over your friends' lizards, but you never know who might hurdle back over you in the next round! Your brain is sure to be bouncing as you race toward the end of the line. Includes 18 wood beads, 16 Secret Creature cards (four of each creature), 10 two-sided Creature tiles, 1 Lead Lizard tile (red), 4 wood lizards (one of each color) string, shaker cup and instructions. Teaches counting and shape identification.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the Board Games Editor at BellaOnline.com, February 1, 2006

By 

Megan Romer (Lafayette, LA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Leaping Lizards (Toy)

Leaping Lizards is a wonderful and compact matching game from Gamewright Games, who make a whole line of inexpensive, educational and fun board and card games. Instead of a conventional playing board, the game is played on a long cord which has beads strung on it. The spaces between the beads are the playing spaces, and players race to get their little wooden lizard to the end.

Game play is relatively simple. Each player gets a set of "Creature Cards". Before every round, they pick one of their creature cards to be their match. Then the creature tiles (which are two-sided) and the lead lizard tile are shaken up in the provided cup and spilled out. If the lead lizard tile has a smiley face showing, the player whose lizard is furthest back in the line may move their lizard as many pieces forward as they have matched their creature card to the creature tiles. So if they chose a dragonfly as their creature card and three dragonflies are showing face up, they may move three spaces forward. If the lead lizard tile shows a sad face, the player whose lizard is at the front of the line must move their lizard back as many matches as they've made.

Matching skills are the only essential skill needed for the game, kids who are still too young to read can play this game easily. It's also completely a game of luck, which levels the playing field between different ages of children.

Because of this game's super-compact size, it makes for a great travel game. It'll work on airplanes or in back seats, and kids will have fun with it for hours. The illustrations are wonderful and the pieces are made with real materials. This is a great game!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY!, January 9, 2007

By 

Skip (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leaping Lizards (Toy)

A game for 3-4 year olds that is actually AGE APPROPRIATE! This neither insults a young child's intelligence nor is too difficult. Anyone with a 3 year-old knows how tough it is finding a GAME s/he actually WANTS to play that teaches turn-taking, counting, and that losing is often only temporary (there are a LOT of position changes in the course of a game). The game is 100% luck, so an older child will become bored quickly, but if you have a 3-5 year old, GET THIS! As with ALL Gamewright games (I own 9 of them), they are simple (unlike Cranium stuff... gads- pieces everywhere!) and visually stimulating.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Pre-Board Game, March 8, 2008

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S. Hunt - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Leaping Lizards (Toy)

I use this game for 3-4 year old's as reinforcement for speech therapy. The children I work with adore this game - I like it too. Incorporates matching, counting, color recognition - a great pre-board game. This game can be played quickly to appease the short attention span of little ones!