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Classic Pit Tin
Made by Winning Moves
Amazon base price: $15.99
It's hard to believe that market trading has survived almost unchanged 100 years after the boisterously fun game of Pit was introduced by Parker Brothers. Yet the Classic Pit Tin still captures the flavor of making deals faster and faster, louder and louder, until the ring of the bell announces the first successful cornering of the market. The cards are sturdy, the artwork is lovely, the rules are simple, and the game is wild. Put it in an attractive tin and you've got a winner. --Rob Lightner
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Everybody loves it!!!!After I discovered Pit from a friend, I went online and ordered my own. It has been the best party game ever!!! I bring it over to a friend's house or take it on a trip, and everybody wants to play. All my friends are now addicted to it. It also is a good way to see the futures market at work.
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Fast paced, adictive gameThe rules are straightforward and easy to learn, the pace can pick up very quickly making this game loads of fun- also the more people the better!
A Great Time for AllThis is a very fun game. It can get quite loud when you play. The object is to collect every card of one kind by blind trading. Everyone is trading at one time so it can be loud. O.K. it WILL be loud. Now every time people come over, they want to play Pit. I wish I got a comission for all the people who went out and bought it after they played at our house. I'm giving some as gifts for Christmas because they are hard to find in the stores.
UNO House Rules
Made by Mattel
Amazon base price: $6.99
America's number one card game now has three new fun ways to play. The object of the game is to be the first to reach a score of 500. You can win points by getting rid of all the cards in your hand before your opponents do. You also earn points for cards left in your opponents' hands. The easy-to-follow instructions are included, as well as detailed descriptions of the game's variations and strategies. It travels well and is great for families; Uno can be played by up to 10 players. Enjoy--and may the best player win! --Peggy Etra
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Uno is number one in our houseThe folks at UNO had a contest and asked fans of UNO (original), "How do YOU improve [UNO]?" Then they reviews the submissions and chose three favorites. The result is UNO: House Rules. Just in case you feel that YOUR idea is better than the ones that come with this pack, there is a blank instruction card where you can add your own rules.
Other than three new ways to play, UNO: House Rules offers up the same family fun that you'd expect from UNO Original. There is nothing that differentiates these cards from the Original pack - only the addition of the 3 new sets of instructions (note: for new players who are unfamiliar with the game, there are also instructions on how to play the Original).
This game is a perennial favorite in our house. The games are short in length, easy to play, don't depend on skill, and you can take this game anywhere. There are no small pieces for kids to choke on, and if you happen to lose a card or two, you can pretty much get away with it. For 2-10 players (but more if you have multiple decks - just make sure they have different backs!) of any age.
A Great Family Card Game!My 6 year old son has just discovered Uno! And he loves it! His request every night after dinner is "Can we play Uno?". Even my 4 year old son has caught onto the rules. You just need to know how to match colors and numbers. Adding up his cards and keeping score for the whole family, gives my son practice with his math skills. But it is so fun he doesn't even realize he is learning addition. I enjoy turning off the TV and gathering the family together for good old-fashioned fun. Uno has turned into one of my favorite gifts - it's terrific for any age!
Crazy Cacophony of Cards Caters to KidsOh no!!! Draw Four Wild?!! And I lose my turn?!! Sometime life throws you a curve and you have to adjust. The same is true in Uno. Take those four cards and win the game with them. Uno is the classic card game that doesn't use regular cards. Sure, you could almost play Uno with a regular deck, but what would you do without the "Reverse," "Skip," "Draw Two," and the wild cards? Everyone loves Uno, and its educational! When they start playing, they'll be yelling "uno" when they have one card left, and in no time they'll be speaking Spanish fluently!
Deluxe Pit Card Game
Made by Winning Moves
Amazon base price: $15.99
List price: $17.99 (that's 11% off!)
List price: $17.99 (that's 11% off!)
Looking for a sure winner in the hot commodities market? Pit, the fast-paced card game from Parker Brothers, has been a bullish performer since its introduction way back in 1904. With all the ups and downs, desperate deals, and nonstop action of an actual trading floor, this lively game offers great fun without risking the family fortune. The rules are simple: Deal the cards, wait for the opening bell, scream and trade like crazy, be the first to corner a specific market (nine cards of the same suit), and ring the closing bell. Sounds pretty realistic, doesn't it? Once you've got the basic game mastered, try throwing Bull and Bear cards into the mix--that's when things get really interesting!
Pit comes neatly boxed with a set of durable game cards, instructions, and a heavy-duty metal bell that's great for slamming. There are rules included for a silent bidding version of the game, but jumping up and down, gesticulating wildly, and shouting yourself hoarse is half the fun. --George Laney
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Blast!We just played pit for the first time!! It is a GREAT group/family game. It's fast moving and very competitive--but easy to learn! Think of OLD MAID on steroids!! It's so much fun--I'm buying two of them so more of us can play!
Yelling TWO, TWO, TWO! Great family game for all ages!As I type this review, my kids (young adults) and their grandparents are playing Pit. The grandparents introduced us to this game and we often play at their house. When I saw this DELUXE version of Pit, that comes with a bell, I just had to get it for them!
A simple game to learn, ALL ages can enjoy this game together. 7 year olds could play this game and the adults don't necessarily have an advantage over the kids, which makes it fun for everyone.
Be ready to be LOUD - right now I can hear shouts of "Three, three, three" and laughter and I'm not even on the same floor as the Pit-Players!
I read in another review that this game was introduced in 1904. Obviously, this is a game that has staying power! Isn't it great that even with modern technology which allowed me to purchase this game online, we can enjoy games that were invented decades ago!
Turn off the TV, and spend time with your family playing games. Go make some memories!
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So much fun!I was looking to buy Mille Bornes (one of my other favorite games) and found that it came with this other game called Pit as a bonus. So I figured how bad could that game be and besides if it was an awful game it was free! Well I read the directions and thought it sounded like the stupidest game. But I love games so I forced my sister and father to play with me. It was the best game! We had so much fun. We laughed until our stomachs hurt. I've since brought it to family picnics and get togethers--everyone that plays this game loves it! Its great for all ages (I've played with 10 year olds to 80 year olds). The instructions are simple. The entire deck of cards is dealt out to all players. When the bell is rung trading begins! Everyone frantically trades an amount of cards from their hand (1-4 cards at a time) with someone else who is willing to trade the same amount. Everyone is involved so the more that are playing the crazier (and more exciting!) it is. As soon as you have collected all of the cards of the same commodity yell Pit! The catch is not to get stuck with the bear when Pit is called (it will give you negative points)! It is so funny when you know who has the bear and they are trying so hard to get rid of it! This game is absolutely the best (next to Milles Bornes of course!). Highly recommend!
Five Crowns Card Game
Made by SET Enterprises Inc.
Amazon base price: $11.99
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Quality of cardsWe love the game and have purchased it for others. All our friends and family are hooked on it. The only thing we don't like about it ( all of us ) is the quality of the cards. From the very beginning, they were hard to deal out. Very thick and wanted to stick together. Have tried numerous things to make them easier to use, but nothing works. Any suggestions?
A little Luck, A little Skill, and Lots of FunWe just bought Five Crowns, (mostly because of good reviews on this site) and we were not disappointed. My husband and I have fun playing with our kids (9 and 13) and the kids like to play with friends. I've played it with my daughter and her 2 friends and they love it when they "go out" before me. Everyone has a chance to succeed as each hand starts all over (with a higher number of cards). I like to give our children "thinking" games and while this game depends a lot on the cards you draw, what you do with them involvs some thought. The goal is to draw and discard cards to build runs and sets. As the number of cards in your hand changes the wild card changes too, and you have to pay attention not to discard it by mistake! It takes the 4 of us about 45 minutes to play, just the right amount of time for a game after dinner (we don't watch TV). We've played it almost everyday since we received it.
My favorite card game--and we play almost everything!Five Crowns is excellent fun. The cards are beautiful and the changing wild cards from hand-to-hand keep the game interesting and exciting. There are lots of stimulating colors if you play with kids and the game helps them learn to match and make numerical sequences. We have played nearly every day since we bought the cards over two months ago. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes to play cards or games.
Frog Juice Card Game
Made by Gamewright
Age Group: 8 - 12 years
Amazon base price: $9.99
How would you create a magic spell? You might need some unicorn horn or some eye of newt, or maybe some bats or toadstools or star and moon dust. But be forewarned as you're stirring up your potion--you'd better be wary of a black cat or the powerful All-Purpose Witch Wash! One of your opponents might even be brewing up an Uglifying Spell. ("Results guaranteed to crack mirrors at a single glance!") All of these magical ingredients are part of Frog Juice, an imaginative card game for two to four players that uses fairy-tale elements from fair maids to frogs to create a game that both kids and adults will enjoy. This game of strategy includes 44 ingredient cards and 15 power cards, each with an illustration that looks like it came straight out of a fairy-tale book. Cards are played in the center of the game and then captured by other players by matching numerical values or by using stronger powers. --Marcie Bovetz
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frog juicethis is a great game to play at any event I first learned it at my softball summer camp. We played every night it was very very fun. its easy to play and u can play for hours
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This game rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Frog Juice is a really fun game for the whole family. There are witches, witch wash, and spells. My family could play it all day. It is very fun. That's it.
Frog JuiceI have boys age 7 and 11 and both love this game. It's a great family game for all ages. I can play with the kids and they have as much of a chance of winning as I do. Our 7 year old often wins and we don't have to go easy on him.
Apples to Apples Game
Made by Out of the Box Publishing LLC
Amazon base price: $19.99
Don't judge a book by its cover, or an appealing little card game by its box. This game of comparisons is receiving rave customer reviews and was a national competition winner with Mensa, the high-IQ organization. This simple game is designed to be played by 4 to 10 people, making it a good choice for parties or family groups. It comes with a card tray and two sets of cards: red apples and green apples. The red apple cards name a person, place, thing, or event, and the green apple cards feature a characteristic (from adorable to zany). The judge (who rotates on each turn) reads a green card, and all the players have to slap down their choice of red apple cards for that characteristic. Some juicy choices and comparisons are bound to emerge--along with some fruitful lessons in famous people and events. It's an apple barrel full of laughs! --Marcie Bovetz
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Awesome Game!This game is the best! All my friends love it, it is a game that you can laugh and have a good time with. It is easy, and clean. Have fun playing it!
outragous funmy cousin brought this game to our family reunion this year. it was the most fun I've every had playing a card game!! This is a must have for anyone who enjoys hosting game nights with family and friends. 5 stars!!!
The Best!!!!This is my favorite game on the face of the Earth!! A MUST-HAVE Game!! Get it and enjoy it!! I have never played a game like it!! I bought it, you should too!!
SET Game
Made by SET Enterprises Inc.
Amazon base price: $11.99
SET is a card game of quick recognition and deduction. Each card contains one of three symbols (squiggles, diamonds, ovals) in varying numbers (up to three), colors (purple, green, red), and degrees of shading. A dealer arranges 12 cards, face up, and the players--without taking turns--hastily scrutinize the images for logical "sets" of three cards linked by combinations of sameness or difference. It's not as complicated as it sounds: examples include a trio of paired ovals with increasing levels of shading between cards, or disparate symbols in different colors which increase in number on each card (card one has a green squiggle, card two a pair of purple ovals, card three a trio of diamonds). The trick is to keep calm while trying to make the rapid connections. The Darwinian nature of the game (remember: everyone plays simultaneously) is certain to cause some feistiness among more competitive players. --Tom Keogh
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The BEST game for all ages!I got this game for my 5 year-old daughter at Christmas, and we are hooked! It's challenging for her, but she gets it; I am so addicted to it that I go to the SET website every day to solve the daily puzzle! (Which, I might add, is excellent for learning how to play the game and for practice.) At the SET Enterprises site, you can also buy a PC version of the game if you prefer this to using cards, as I do.
I gave this three stars for durability only because this is played with cards--like any card game, they can get lost, bent, whatever. I keep this in MY room so the cards don't get lost (and so I can play after my daughter goes to bed)!
This might be too difficult for most young kids (it's perfectly suited to my daughter's learning/thinking style) so beware the frustration factor. However, you can play easier versions as well to start (by using only one color, for example) and progress to the full game for them. TEN stars for educational value--it's a great brain workout!
Anyone who likes puzzle-type games will love this!
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Hooked for years!I was introduced to this game as a Senior in high school while on a Girl Scout trip to Michigan. We played it every chance we got between planned activities. It gets loud and fast. It wasn't too tricky to learn, just to 'see' the sets.
When I got home it took months to find a toy store that had it, let alone heard of it.
Once I found it I introduced it to my friends and half of them loved it, the other half never wanted to play me again. Most of the people who loved playing it were very math oriented in their thinking. People who are language people seem to have more trouble at first for some reason.
It definately helps develop perception, thinking and pattern recognition skills. Not to mention addictive. I would recomed it for anyone over the age of about 8.
When I got home it took months to find a toy store that had it, let alone heard of it.
Once I found it I introduced it to my friends and half of them loved it, the other half never wanted to play me again. Most of the people who loved playing it were very math oriented in their thinking. People who are language people seem to have more trouble at first for some reason.
It definately helps develop perception, thinking and pattern recognition skills. Not to mention addictive. I would recomed it for anyone over the age of about 8.
You will be seeing these shapes in your sleepHighly addictive game because there are no turns, just every body whaling away at once. Trying to match up these shapes and colors becomes maddening after awhile. It is quite easy to get lost and see no matches what so ever and all of a sudden your brain will just click and you will be seeing sets everywhere. This is a very simple game to learn and very hard to master. First time players will get frustrated very easily if they are playing with SET veterans. The idea is to match any three cards on the table by having all of the card's characteristics being all the same or all different. Your spatial reasoning will get a real work out as you play through the deck the number of times equal to the number of players. Points are scored for each successful set and points are lost for incorrectly picking a set(which happens alot when everyone is in a hurry to find the next set.). A great great game that is loads of fun but a real mental workout.
UNO Attack Game
Made by Mattel
Amazon base price: $21.99
UNO, America's No. 1-selling card game, has a whole new twist. You'll still encounter all the elements that make UNO so unpredictable and challenging, but add to that a motorized card launcher that shows no mercy and you've got UNO Attack. The object of the game is still to get rid of all your cards. The UNO command cards direct the game by telling players when to trade hands, discard, reverse the playing order, or skip a player. Beware the dreaded Hit command, though, as this translates into a game of Russian roulette. You never know when the card launcher is going to fire off a stream of UNO cards just for you! For 2 to 10 players. Requires three C batteries (not included). --Alison Golder
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A GREAT game made BETTER!This game takes the already great game of Uno and makes it into an even better game for the whole family. I like this better than regular Uno because the card despinser adds an extra twist because you don't know if you are going to get 1 card or 10 cards. I think this is a GREAT game for the family!!!
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Not so good for singlesI heard that this game was really fun and great so I was excited to try it but I live alone and it's not so fun to play by yourself. It was funny when the cards shot out of the machine but if there was a reverse card I had to just play again the same as I would have anyway and when I got the exchange hands card I couldn't really do that either. So as you can see it's a better game for people who have lots of friends. I bet then it would be pretty good. I am so lonely.
Easy, Fun, and ImprovedThis is a great and fun twist to the original UNO game (very similar to crazy 8's). There are a couple of new cards, like trade hands, but the main difference is a shooter. Sometimes if you press the button, nothing happens, and others cards fly out (about 1 / 3 times). Any number may fly out, but generally between 2 and 5. You press the button when someone plays the right card, you forget to call UNO, etc. This is a good family game for people of all ages and I recommend it especially for UNO lovers.
Mille Bornes Collector's Edition
Made by Winning Moves
Amazon base price: $11.99
List price: $14.99 (that's 20% off!)
List price: $14.99 (that's 20% off!)
First published in 1962, Mille Bornes (pronounced "meel born," French for "milestones") is an auto racing card game whose object, for each team of two players, is to be the first to complete a series of 1,000-mile trips. Each player has a hand of six cards and picks more in turn from a central pile. There are Distance, Hazard, Remedy, and Safety cards, each with various subgroupings, which determine the course of play. This Collector's Edition reproduces the artwork of the original game. The set includes a car-shaped plastic card tray, score sheets, instructions, and deck of 110 playing cards with language in English and French. Bon voyage! --Richard Farr
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More fun than Nascar. . .I've been playing Mille Bornes since the 60's and now have a delightful granddaughter with which to share it! Mille Bornes is at once fun, educational, analytical, strategic. Fun for the grownups as well as the kids. Though the box says ages 8 and up - I've introduced the game to some bright 6 year olds and they love it!
So get out your competitive spirit. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!
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Great Game, but don't buy this editionThis is still an excellent game; lots of fun for all ages. However, the "Collector's Edition" is not worth the price--flimsy plastic tray--skimpy, badly printed score sheets. If this is all that's available, I'd say go for it, but I'd recommend looking for another version.
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Learning plus !Especially helpful in early children's French language skills plus applied math; eg. addition/subtraction. Adult fun too - you can play this game & socialize without a "must win" complex.
Sequence
Made by Jax Ltd Inc
Amazon base price: $19.99
With touches of canasta, rummy, and poker, this game could easily become a Friday-night favorite. The object is to get a "sequence," meaning a row of five poker-like chips on the game board. The board itself depicts lines of face-up playing cards. Players place their "crowning" chips on top of the card pictures, and can form sequences by using strategy and knowing which Sequence cards to keep or discard. Since forethought, luck, and backup plans are the keys to winning, this game is probably too sophisticated for children under 7 years old. (But young ones can team up with adults.) Included are 104 playing cards and 50 crowning chips in each color: red, blue, and green. --Gail Hudson
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Easy game to learn - hard to masterI was first introduced to this game while my daughter was in the hospital. It was a game that always had players, players of all ages, and everyone enjoyed it.
While playing the game, the situations can change quickly - just when you have a plan, someone will play a jack and remove a crutial token, or will play a jack and take a crucial spot.
One rule - no table talk to coach your partnet, can give rise to various coversations, for example if you want your partner to play the 2 of hearts, my daughter came up with a conversation about how she LOVES her TWO dogs. Each of these tangents brings up a new converation for the players.
This has become a family favorite, and for every occasion it is set up and played by all who are there.
Adults and children can play on the same level, kids are sometimes the most brutal, they don't feel bad about taking your "place". While adults may think ahead more, the kids come up with cleaver methods to foil the adults.
I would highly recommend this game to any family or group as a fun way to spend the afternoon.
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GREAT strategy gameAt a glance, Sequence doesn't look like much, but it's one of those games that you can pull out any time and play over and over again for hours on end. We do, anyway! At every family holiday, we get the board going and people rotate in and out of Sequence all day long. One of the best things about it is how easily you can adapt the game to 2 to 6 players. It's quick and easy to learn and you can play fun and relaxed or competitive and serious. If you like Rummycube, you'll like Sequence.
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Sequence vs CraniumYou don't have to be a game person to like this game, which plays easily from two to four people. It's got a playing board, poker chips, and uses two decks of cards. But you don't have to figure a lot out, or do a lot of math, or hold a lot of cards (just six at a time). It's part luck, part thinking and, with four persons, part teamwork. Not as thorny and infinitely long as chess, nor as obvious as checkers, not a strategic all-nighter like Risk, or a major undertaking like Monopoly. Not a way-too-educational game you got instead of a toy for your birthday (to your dismay). If you like all those games, you'd probably enjoy Sequence also. But if you're not a game person, and don't like all of the above, this might be the one game you would like. It's like hearing a clean joke that's actually funny, or finding non-alchoholic beer that tastes good. The odds are stacked against it, but Sequence may have beaten the odds. The only other game I like this much is Battleship, but if you hate Battleship, you may still like Sequence. If you've already got Cranium, empty the box out and put the Sequence pieces in the Cranium box. Then you've got the best of both worlds: a great game and great Gary Baseman box art.