Hasbro Candy Land Castle Game

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Product Description

Candyland takes on a new twist. Designed for preschoolers, the classic game now comes in the form of a 3-D Castle Shape Sorter with surprises at every turn. Kids will love sorting and matching color and shape surprises. Castle comes with four gingerbread game boards.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #931 in Toys & Games
  • Brand: Hasbro
  • Model: 41450
  • Released on: 2007-09-03
  • Dimensions: 10.80″ h x 10.50″ w x 5.10″ l, 2.15 pounds

Features

  • Hasbro Candy Land Castle Game is fun, colorful and educational
  • Simple matching game involving shapes and colors
  • Engaging educational game can be played alone or with others
  • Comes with King Kandy Castle, brightly colored tokens, gingerbread kid gameboards
  • Designed for ages 3 and up

Amazon.com Product Description
Hasbro’s Candy Land Castle Game is a fun and engaging game for your pre-schooler that encourages coordination and matching skills. This colorful game provides many learning opportunities for your youngest pre-schooler either by playing alone or with others.

Customer Reviews

Great First Game5
I was looking for a good beginner board game so we could start family game night with our 3 year old and this game is great. It is very simple and does not take too long to play a round: pull the lever and one piece shoots out of the castle (fun) and if it matches your game board you keep it and if not you put it back in the castle top. Great first game, box says 3+ but 2 year olds could easily play this game with supervision. I think it is a bit overpriced, but there is not really a great selection of easy beginner games available. (We have the Lucky Ducks game – fun but noisy! And we have Hi Ho Cherry-O – fun but 40 tiny plastic cherries!)

Great DURABLE Game for Little Ones4
My 4 year old daughter got this for Christmas. There are four gingerbread men cardboard cards (heavyweight cardboard too). Each gingerbread has a different combination of four shape indentations (One might have an oval, octagon, rectangle and star, while another might have a flower, star, triangle, and rectangle). The game comes with a bunch of plastic (thick – heavy duty) shapes. Basically, you put all the shapes in the chimney of the castle. In turn, each player pulls the candy cane lever. When you pull the lever, a shape comes out. If it matches a shape that your gingerbread needs, you put it on your gingerbread. If it doesn’t, you put it back in the chimney. Either way, it’s the next player’s turn. The first player to get all the shapes they need wins. This is very good if your child is learning colors and shapes. My daughter already knows colors, shapes, etc., but she has a hard time losing. This is great for that too. The game goes fast and winning/losing is very cut and dry. We can play several times in a row. Some times she wins, some times she loses.


Hasbro Games Monopoly Deal Card Game

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Product Description

    Dealing and trading! A new twist on Monopoly! Be careful not to lose everything!

Monopoly is now in a whole new category! Monopoly’s brand iconography and heritage is featured in this dynamic game of acquisition, dealing, and trading. Be the first to complete 3 property sets by collecting, swapping, and dealing– careful one wrong card and you could lose everything! Ages 8 and up. Batteries not required.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #194 in Toys & Games
  • Brand: Hasbro
  • Model: 01723
  • Dimensions: .80″ h x 3.60″ w x 5.50″ l, 1.00 pounds

Features

  • New Monopoly Deal card game that is moving through Family Game Nights everywhere!
  • Collect 3 complete property sets but beware of the Debt Collectors, Forced Deals and Deal Breakers!
  • if your looking for a fun family/friend game this is it.
  • Now only plays up to five players which takes apprx 45 min to play w/5 people, apprx 35 min w/4, apprx 15-25 minutes w/3 people and apprx 5-15 minutes w/2 people
  • Fun, fast dealing¿every card counts!

From the Manufacturer
The fast-paced, addictive card game where your luck can change in the play of a card! Collect 3 complete property sets, but beware of Debt collectors, Forced Deals and the dreaded Deal Breakers, which could change your fortunes at any time! Fun version of Monopoly for ages 8 and up!

Customer Reviews

fun game, even better once modified4
This is a great “travel” Monopoly game. The one remark I want to make though, is that there are probably too many “money” cards and not enough “rent” cards. In other words, the money supply seems to far exceed the money demand in this game.

So, what you normally end up with, are the losers of this game finishing with a ton of money in their banks because they never had to pay out much — not very realistic to have losers who are very wealthy.

To fix this problem, buy two of these games and take all the “rent” cards out of one game and add them to your other game. This will make money a more valuable resource since the increased # of “rent” cards will present a larger danger to each player’s bank.

This will also have the effect of rewarding players who lay down property cards so that they can collect rent from them — the whole reason that you want to own property (and play the game of Monopoly) in the first place, right?

I also think this increases strategy somewhat because it puts you at a decision between using your property to collect valuable money or hoarding the property in your hand to keep it protected. As the game is now, it’s pretty much a no-brainer that, of the three types of cards, the property card is the last type you want to lay down (unless you have very powerful action card).

Monopoly Deal card game…one word ADDICTING5
We have been playing this game for almost 2 months, we are on our 4th deck if that tells ya anything. You can play several games so it goes much faster paced then the traditional board game and its much more fun and great brain stimulation..haha! Its basically a strategical game but dont let that hold you back because if you love the board game you will love this card game even more. It definitly brings a challenge to the table. We have introduced this game to others and they are addicted as well. It is sooooo much fun. I am not poker or ueker player as everyone else i know that is and this game finally includes me in and makes me feel as good as a player as them all they no longer wanna play any other games that is great news for me as i no longer wait hanging in the background wishing they play a game i would enjoy.

So if your looking for a fun family/friend game this is it. Now only plays up to five players in which we have found takes apprx 45 min to play w/5 people, apprx 35 min w/4, apprx 15-25 minutes w/3 people and apprx 5-15 minutes w/2 people ..so as you can see we play alot and it dont take long to play, we’ve gotten pretty good to get the game going quick, the directions are not hard to figure out may seem too much at 1st they are pretty simple and not too complex and you will come to find questions aobut this and that. Just follow the directions, play about the 1st 4-5 games as beginners letting all see cards in your hand to figure it out. Then all play on your own, its easy to get the hang of it even for kids. There are some things we’ve pretty much had to set some rules of our own because the rules are not complex, which is no big deal it just comes down to common sense.

This is the best game ever and it can get frustrating because u can be so close to winning as the game can be taken out from under you by one card but its just a game. We have gone as far as marking down the winner of each hand and when the night is thru the person with most wins is the champ. We are about to gather all of our friends who we’ve gotten addicted to the game and have a tournment which will be so fun i cannot wait! What shall be the prize? A new deck of Monopoly Deal of course! haha! Try it out its real inexpensive for such a fun and challenging game, it really brings the family together and the kids will be be asking to play all the time as family time is well needed for families these days. Oh my you may be begging for some1 to play you and if they are already into the game wont take much to get em to play. My husband is very smart and has wonderful luck in winning almost anything plus hates to lose and its wonderful to see him flabergasted when i or the kids get the win..haha!!

Fun overall concept… once you figure it out5
Since our family loves Monopoly we thought this could be a fun new take on an old standby. While the rules were confusing at first, once we got the hang of things we have really enjoyed it. Be warned that the rules are actually much simpler than you expect them to be – which causes some confusion as you get going. Whereas the object in the traditional board game is to get as much money as you can and bankrupt your opponents, the only object here is to be the first to get three full sets of properties.

Here are the basic rules for those considering a purchase. Each player starts with 5 cards. On your turn you draw 2 more cards. Then you can play up to 3 cards by either putting money or action cards into a personal bank, putting down properties, and/or playing action cards from your bank into the center. There are many different action cards. Some examples are force rent, double the rent, steal an entire set, force a property swap, etc. The trick is making the best decision on which cards to play since you will want to play all of your cards at once. But you can’t earn any money from your opponents, and thus weaken their position, without having these cards out on the table. The danger is that other people can steal these cards from you. Really that’s basically it. Simple, brief, and fun.

After playing three full games, which probably last only about 15-20 minutes, we really have the hang of it and are having lots of fun with a variation one of our favorite games.