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Build a better mousetrap? We dare you. Naturally, the object is to trap mice in the mousetrap, while avoiding getting trapped. By rolling the die, you proceed around the game board, collecting cheese pieces and building a mousetrap bit by bit. Once complete, you set the wheels in motion, as it were, to try to capture the opposition's mice. But this is no ordinary trap. With this contraption you start by turning the crank, that rotates the gears, that push the lever, that moves the shoe, that kicks the bucket, that sends the ball down the stairs and into the gutter, that leads to the rod that releases a second ball, that falls through the bathtub and onto the springboard, that catapults the diver into the washtub, that causes the cage to fall and--whew!--hopefully, capture a mouse. The last "mouse" left uncaptured wins --Alison Golder
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Build a better mousetrap and you can catch your opponents mouse before yours is caught! As you travel around the board, collect pieces to create your trap, then put it together and start up the whole crazy chain reaction this is no ordinary mousetrap! For 2 to 4 players.
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75 of 77 people found the following review helpful
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I usually groan when my first grader pulls out this game, because I know pandemonium will follow -- but it's always a lot of fun!!!!
This game needs to be heavily supervised. Even if you child can read (and kids on the younder end of the spectrum won't be able to), assembling the mousetrap requires a certain amount of fine motor skills and an understanding of how things fit together. My son has yet to play it with a friend without serious assistance! Even when I play if with him, it is a crisis if my younger child is around. He is too young to play the game, but he loves to play with it and work the trap -- usually right in the middle of the game!
Notwithstanding all of this, the game is a blast. It's a good introduction to engineering concepts. Most board games are pretty similar -- you go around the board and whoever gets to the end first wins. This isn't that simple - you don't know who is going to win until the end. Furthermore, the best fun of the game is the process of reaching the end, since most turns involve a child adding another piece onto the trap.
My only real complaint about the game is that it needs to be sturdier. My board is taped together, and I am about to order a replacement thing-a-majig (that's really the name of the piece) from Hasbro.
If you don't mind supervising the game, it's a great game.
This game needs to be heavily supervised. Even if you child can read (and kids on the younder end of the spectrum won't be able to), assembling the mousetrap requires a certain amount of fine motor skills and an understanding of how things fit together. My son has yet to play it with a friend without serious assistance! Even when I play if with him, it is a crisis if my younger child is around. He is too young to play the game, but he loves to play with it and work the trap -- usually right in the middle of the game!
Notwithstanding all of this, the game is a blast. It's a good introduction to engineering concepts. Most board games are pretty similar -- you go around the board and whoever gets to the end first wins. This isn't that simple - you don't know who is going to win until the end. Furthermore, the best fun of the game is the process of reaching the end, since most turns involve a child adding another piece onto the trap.
My only real complaint about the game is that it needs to be sturdier. My board is taped together, and I am about to order a replacement thing-a-majig (that's really the name of the piece) from Hasbro.
If you don't mind supervising the game, it's a great game.
72 of 77 people found the following review helpful
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I know that "Mousetrap" is a game in which players take turns trying to capture an opponent's mice, but I am going to take a radical position and say the whole point here is to build this Rube Goldberg version of the proverbial "better mousetrap" and get it to work. Yes, the first time or two that you play this with your kids you can follow the rules and declare a winner. But from then on the fun is just putting this contraption together and getting it to work. The important thing here is that they understand the whole idea of a "Rube Goldberg machine" (he was the inspiration for this toy, even if he does not get the actual credit) and to appreciate the idea of taking a simple every-day real-life problem such as catching a mouse and solving it with a complicated mechanical solution such as what we have here, where you begin with a shoe kicking a bucket and eventually, if everything works correctly, ends with trapping a mouse.
This is a game where the way it really works is that young kids want to learn how to put the "Mousetrap" together and get it to work. After they master that skill they will become bored with it, at which point you simply discover some new kids who have yet to be exposed to this unique, classic game. There are certain games that every kid should be exposed to and "Mousetrap" is on that short list of classics.
This is a game where the way it really works is that young kids want to learn how to put the "Mousetrap" together and get it to work. After they master that skill they will become bored with it, at which point you simply discover some new kids who have yet to be exposed to this unique, classic game. There are certain games that every kid should be exposed to and "Mousetrap" is on that short list of classics.
37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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Parents or playmates, who give unfavorable reviews of Mousetrap, have expectations beyond reality. This is a family game--at least for the first 3 to 4 games. Play as a family, at first, helping your children learn to assemble the "trap". New games and toys are especially more fun if a parent(s) participate in learning game rules and strategy. How fun it is when 1 of my 4 children challenge me to a game I have taught him/her to play. I usually get smeared! A little bit of initial instruction and patience will take you, as a parent, a long way. The investment will pay off as the kids challenge other friends to play along. In return, Mom sips her coffee and enjoys the activity.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Not the mousetrap game you remember
I always enjoyed playing Mousetrap as a kid. The game setup is the same, but the pieces and mechanisms are very flimsy, cheap, and low quality. Read more
Published 1 month ago by RJL
A classic
A classic. Kids love it. They even love playing it by themselves just to run the gizmo.
Buy it. I haven't met a kid yet who doesn't like this game.
Buy it. I haven't met a kid yet who doesn't like this game.
Published 2 months ago by Terry Crock
As expected.
Classic game, just as expected. The kids enjoy setting it up as much as watching the marbles move through the machine. No one actually plays the board game.
Published 3 months ago by Tia Biasi
mouse trap not good anymore
Integral pieces of this game were missing (not even manufactured by the look of it) The mouse trap does not fit together at all (even the bits that do not rely on the missing... Read more
Published 3 months ago by vanessaJ
Mousetrap
Setting it up was little hard. The plastic hand part does not seem to be doing it's job correctly. I would not buy this game.
Published 4 months ago by abby
Don't purchase this poor quality/poorly designed game
Proud of my eight year old son for trying over and over to get this game to work (it was put together properly by dad). Read more
Published 4 months ago by N. McPhee
Adults Love Mousetrap
Sat around the table playing mousetrap for hours. Many bottles of wine were consumed in the process and the game was more fun the longer we played.
Published 4 months ago by DocTom
Mousetrap - Tons of fun for the whole family!
We love to play games as a family and Mousetrap is one of our FAVORITES! Things to know: 1) This is an "Entire Family" game... Read more
Published 6 months ago by K. Light
broken parts
Game came quick and new in plastic. We finally opened it and played. Mousetrap is a lot of work with a 4 year old, but worth that moment of truth where the trap falls on the mouse. Read more
Published 8 months ago by chrisannwest
better then tv
What can i say about this cool game. First im gonna say im 31 yrs old and still play this game. I live alone and set it up and just enjoy tinkering with it. Its awesome. Read more
Published 10 months ago by walter
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