My 3-year-old loves this game! We've had it a few weeks and have found many ways to play with it. There are two play modes, day mode and night mode. In the day mode, the pigs go on the board and the houses are placed so that the pigs remain outside; in night mode, the pigs go in the houses. The wolf piece is only used in night mode. The game comes with a book of puzzles that includes 24 day and 24 night puzzles. The easiest puzzles are doable for a 3-year-old and the hardest puzzles are hard even for an adult. At age 3, he doesn't yet remember that he's done puzzles before so it's a fresh challenge.
The set is good quality. The pieces fit well into the board and stay up even with toddler hands putting houses over them. The wolf piece is also bigger than the pigs so that he doesn't really fit in the houses, so you know you've got it wrong if you try to put the wolf inside. I appreciate the attention to detail wherein the houses are yellow, brown, and red to represent straw, wood, and brick, just like the story. The puzzle also comes with a book telling the story of the three little pigs if your little one isn't familiar with it, but the book isn't integral to the game.
Some tips for additional fun:
1. Have your child set up the board. This is good practice for reading maps and following directions. If the puzzle is too hard for your kid, have them look at the solution for the puzzle and recreate it.
2. Some puzzles only use one or two pigs; to explain this to my son who always wants to use all the pieces, we say that the other pigs are "on vacation" and need to have their houses ready for them when they come home. Then once all the houses are placed, we lift up the empty houses and the extra pigs "come home." During the day time puzzles, we pretend the wolf is sleeping.
3. There is lots of opportunity for play acting with the pigs and wolf. We have fun with the wolf piece pretending to huff and puff and blow the houses down during the night time puzzles. Sometimes the wolf "wakes up" during the day time puzzles and comes to eat the piggies who must then escape. Super fun!
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