Chaos

by MindWare

Product Features

• Beautifully crafted from wood
• Includes 24 wooden discs
• 2 players
• Ages 8 and up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 10.4 x 2.8 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: 1933054719
• Item model number: 36033W
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 - 15 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,720 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

You never know what's going to happen in this easy-to-learn game of strategy. Take turns stacking discs on the square wooden board; any stack with four discs is redistributed in all four directions around it─often resulting in chaos.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun but somewhat limited, September 15, 2008

By 

Olle Pellijeff (Chicago, IL, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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Good fun for such a small and deceptively simple game. When you topple the tiles you really do create quite a chaos.

The many dimensions make it hard to completely control the game, but the person that starts still has quite an advantage and can normally win unless any major mistake is made.

Strongly recommend for playing with kids and as a social game, but for serious strategy play it is limited.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Tic Tac Toe - at all, February 8, 2008

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Bernard Dekoven "Major Fun" (Indianapolis) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

It looks like some kind of tic-tac-toe game. Nice wooden board. Nice wooden pieces. But it's not tic-tac-toe. Nope, not in the least. It's Chaos, a wonderfully addictive, two-player strategy game - easy to learn, and surprisingly subtle.

First thing you have to realize: you're most definitely not trying to get anything in a row. Instead, you're trying to be the first player to get rid of all of your pieces. That takes care of anything you might have thought you already knew about the game.

As in tic-tac-toe, the game is played on a 3x3 grid. Each player has 12 pieces. On a turn, you can play on any open space, or on top of any previously played piece. If your move results in the creation of a stack of 4 pieces, you must disassemble that stack, moving each piece in that stack to a horizontally or vertically adjacent stack (or space). This is done in a clockwise order, beginning with the space or stack directly in front of the stack you are disassembling, and proceeding in a clockwise fashion. When you dismantle a stack on any of the eight peripheral spaces, one of the pieces of the stack has no where go. That piece gets eliminated.

When a stack of three is adjacent to several stacks of three, your move causes a chain reaction - creating more stacks of four, each of which has to be disassembled, resulting in yet more stacks and yet more pieces to eliminate. If you're not careful, you can easily help your opponent win.

Though the game is ostensibly for 2 players, we played it with four, in two teams of two. And there, yet another surprise awaited us. Because of the method of unstacking (always begin with the space or stack directly in front of the stack you are disassembling), where exactly we were each sitting relative to the board took on an added strategic significance.

There is nothing chaotic about the game of Chaos. It is a game of pure strategy. But there is a lot of surprise, and, surprisingly often, moments of sheer glee. All-in-all, most clearly Major FUN.

(original review here - http://majorfun.com/2008/02/chaos.html - )

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleased with game, April 5, 2009

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GAT (Black Hawk, SD United States) - See all my reviews

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

Amazon Verified Purchase

This is an excellent game for the whole family. The instructions are easy enough for a 7 year old but the strategy is interesting enough for an adult. It is all wood and so is nontoxic and should last a lifetime.