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Ravensburger Cat & Mouse - Children's Game

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I purchased this toy for my 4 year old daughter. She is the youngest of three, so she always wants to play family games, but it is difficult to find a game she can play independantly. With this game she can. Simple yet fun. Very durable game. The mouse drop down through holes in the cheese and my children love that element of surprise. My 9 yr old can play this with his two younger sisters, but would be bored with it othewise. My 4yr and 6yr olds really enjoy this simple game.

I recently got this for my 5 year old daughter. She loves games, and kicks everyone's but at tougher games like Monopoly. I am surprised at how much she loves this Cat and Mouse game, because there's not much to it. If you play by the rules it's over in three minutes. I find it boring, no strategy or even thinking, but the little one never tires of it. You can make your own rules to render it more interesting. It's a very high quality game structurally, Ravensburger is THE BEST QUALITY toy company. I highly recommend this toy as a first game for 3 or 4 year olds. I never would have bought it if I had played it first, but she gets such a kick out of it I'm not sorry we have it.

When I did my practicum for Speech Language Pathology at an elementary school, the Speech Path there had this game. The kids all loved to play it as they were fascinated as to where the mouse would come out as he traveled down the cheese hole. The game is simple: mouse travels around the game board and either collects cheese wedges or has to put them back and the first child to get a cheese wheel wins. Sometimes I would just allow the kids to drop the mouse down the holes. It's great for use during therapy as the kids can answer a language question and then take a turn rolling the die and moving their mouse. If there isn't time to finish the game, the child with the most cheese pieces wins. Now that I have my own school, I'm ordering this game so I can use it in therapy too.

This is a fun game with a random element that keeps it fun for little kids. The board has a giant cheese in the center with a top hole that you put your mice in - and they can drop out in 1 of 4 places. You move around the board and get chased by a cat as you do. Sometimes, you land on a square that puts you back at the top of the cheese and into the randomizer hole again. As you move along, you collect cheese pieces. The one with the most wins.

It might get a bit boring for adults since it really is the same game each time. But young kids love it and it is something that the family can play easily for a game night. In all, I'm glad I got it. Our 7 year old loves it as much as her 3 year old nephew. And it's something they can play together.

We have 4 children ages 5, 6, 9 and 11. We purchased this for the younger kids who were then 2 and 4. It is a VERY durable game - heavy plastic pieces. It is great for small motor skills, counting, color recognition, etc. My son has the most fun putting the mice in the hole chutes and seeing which space they land on. That is the extent of the real fun. Otherwise this game is boring, drawn out and . . . painfully boring. Trying to remember to move the cat is a problem for us. Then when we do remember we are already 2 or 3 turns ahead and it is disappointing to know we have, in a sense, changed the game. The only one who asks to play is my youngest and he really just wants to use it as a playground for the mice.