Ravensburger Rivers, Roads & Rails - Children's Game

by Ravensburger

Product Features

• Each tile has two sides
• Each side contains at most one road, one river, and one rail
• Only two of the tiles are branching
• You can play this game competitively like Dominoes, or cooperatively like a free-form jigsaw puzzle
• Great indoor play

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 1.5 x 9 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001OX05
• Item model number: MN058-000
• Our recommended age: 5 - 9 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 5 - 12 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,397 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Building roads, railroads, and waterways is the object of this cooperative picture-matching game. The 2-inch square tiles have illustrations of the above printed on one side with some railroad stations and harbors, too. Each player draws 10 tiles and sets about matching river to river, road to road and rail to rail. The first to use up all their tiles wins. But this nonreading game is really about cooperation. The different paths and combinations create so many different possibilities that no two paths are alike. --Lynne Sampson

Product Description

Build a world of rivers, roads and rails! Each card has to connect perfectly to the next to create an intricate network of transportation. Plan ahead, form pathways and be the first to use up all your cards to win the game. Includes three different game variations!

• Recommended Ages: 5 years - 12 years

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most requested game in our household, December 12, 2001

By A Customer

= 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: Ravensburger Rivers, Roads & Rails - Children's Game (Toy)

Even the littlest one (3 years old) loves R, R, & R. He doesn't understand the "game" part, but he loves looking at the pieces, and he has figured out how the matching works.
Treating it more like a puzzle than a turn-based game makes it fun for everybody -- you spend as little or as long on it as you want, and then you come back to it later.
Our household challenge is to use all the pieces in as compact a shape as possible. My husband is obsessed with putting together a perfect rectangle. Hasn't happened yet, but he keeps trying!

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For puzzle lovers, November 30, 1999

By A Customer

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

This review is from: Ravensburger Rivers, Roads & Rails - Children's Game (Toy)

Ravensburger products are easy to love because of their high quality. These game tiles (like Ravensburger's puzzle pieces) are thick, colorful with great detail, and wipe clean when you spill on them. I enjoy puzzles and so this is a fun game for me, creating a maze of rivers, roads, and railways that begin and end at houses, bridges, towns and dams. The game can last an overly long time, so my kids don't enjoy it as much.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Educational and fun game, March 24, 2000

By A Customer

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

This review is from: Ravensburger Rivers, Roads & Rails - Children's Game (Toy)

This game promotes many educational skills, available to use even with very young children,including matching, visual discrimination, vocabulary building, sequencing and in addition it is a fun game to play turning out different picture representation every time!