Timing It Right Board Game

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Product Features

• Math
• Time
• 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00004TDLB
• Item model number: LER0506
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #81,840 in Toys & Games (See Bestsellers in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review
Tick, tock, tick, tock... ding! It must be time to learn a game about learning to tell the time. This ingenious board game for two to four players will do the tick, er, trick. The colorful 19-inch square board has a spiral path, with divisions that illustrate your day's activities, from getting up and washing to winding down and going to bed. Using game pieces, a clock face with movable hands, and a special time die marked with varying intervals, players move around the board and perform a variety of tasks that are described in the accompanying spiral-bound flip book. The game teaches digital and analog time telling. --Richard Farr

Product Description
Kids play their way through a busy day of activities while building time-telling skills. Self-checking game helps build skills in telling digital and analog time. Includes board, game pieces, clock face and self-checking Time Table flip book.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Have FUN and enjoy this game!, July 12, 2004

By	Gowie "gowie" (CO USA) - See all my reviews

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

It's easier for the kids to have fun when they don't know they are supposed to be learning!

The minimum age recommendation for Timing It Right is 7. Waiting this long would miss out on the most fun and educational parts of this game. A little flexibility is necessary, but my 5 year old son plays this game with ease and enjoys it very much.

The die is in time increments (5 mins. to 2 hrs.), not dots. As you move around the board, you are moving through a school day--waking up, eating breakfast, catching the bus, and on. You roll a time period and move ahead that much time. The directions have the player setting the a small clock to show their time on the board. You look that time up in a booklet and follow the directions for that time, which say things like "spell a word backward and move ahead 2 hours," "waiting in the playground is no fun alone, move another player to your spot," etc.

Having to do all these steps for each turn can take a little getting used to, and the booklet is rather cumbersome to flip through. At one point, we temporarily lost the unique die, and I had to make a fake one of of paper.

The fun of this game is in the flexibility. My son can set the clock in 15 min. increments, but I don't have him do it if the time is 20 or 25 mins. after, for example, because it's beyond his ability and would be frustrating. However, he's now counting by 5s if he rolls 15 or 30 mins., which is pretty cool for someone not yet in kindergarten.

This is a game that we also played with my daughter when she was 6, and she will play it now (9). It's a fun game that is teaching something very useful and specific. I think it's a lot more fun if the parents can use this game in the way that works best for their kids, instead of following the directions to a t. Definitely recommended.

3.0 out of 5 stars A Game About Learning to Tell Time, October 22, 2004

By	Micole Roy (Sugar Land, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is not one of those educational games that your children are likely to play simply because it's fun. However, it is good for sharpening time telling skills. It also moves rather quickly so your kids are not likely to become bored and want to quit before finishing the game.

Although the recommended age is 7 - 11, this game may work better for a younger audience (maybe 5 - 9). I played it with my 5 year old. It provided opportunities to practice:
- figuring out the time by adding hours and minutes
- setting time on an analog clock
- reading time on analog and digital clocks
- reading

We purchase a lot of educational games. My son enjoys many of them so much that he chooses to play them during game time and other times as well. Comparably speaking this game falls short in the fun category, which is a disappointment for a game that sold for $19.99 last year when we purchased it. However, the price has now been slashed 50%, which makes it a better choice.

My recommendation would be to use a toy clock instead of the paper clock that comes with the game. The hands on the paper clock do not move easily.