Warren Reviews

I bought this for my six year old daughter. We have a lot of fun playing it. You pick who you want to be and have cards that have missing items. The items are on pieces that are scattered, upside down, throughout Strawbery Land. What's great is a)it's a memory game, b)it's a quick game, c)for the parents, it doesn't require constant checking of directions or helping with reading (very helpful after a long day of work and school when you want a game where you can just have fun and relax!) Def a good game for the young girl's age group.

My daughter received this for her 5th birthday and she absolutely loves it. It combines the classic board and memory games together. The pieces are made of very thick cardboard and are very durable. The only small complaint is the spinner which tends to get stuck easily. We have played this game multiple times each day since received and she is still excited everytime we open the box. An excellent game!!!

My daughter received this game as a gift for her 5th birthday and we play it all the time. It is not so complicated that it is hard for a child to learn how to play but moves quickly enough that adults don't get bored playing it with little ones. And the illustrations are adorable! It's good family fun.

This is a great game its fun to watch people go noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo when all there ships are sunk and its fun to play even when you loose

This game is a big hit at our house! Our four year old loves to create with Legos so is very interested in following the rules to this game. And for the grownups it's much more fun to play than Chutes & Ladders! I like some of the other reviewers suggestions about decreasing the competiveness for the younger players and will try that the next time we play. While the box says for ages 7 and up a much younger child familiar with Legos and able to follow the visual directions should be able to play without frustration.

My 6 year old recieved this game for christmas and has so much fun with it. He loves to show everyone what he has built. It's just a great game.

We purchased this game for our three Legomaniacs, ages 6, 10, & 11, and it was not a disappointment! The object of the game is to race around the board collecting pieces to see who can build his/her creation first. "Take a piece from another player" spaces add to the competition and unexpected outcomes of the game. Game is great for younger than the 7 & up age rating given it. In addition, our 6 year old spent an afternoon just building & rebuilding the creations displayed on the game cards. Instructions for the game were clear, concise, and they were thoughtful enough to include a display listing of all the pieces that belong to the game. This is a great aid when trying to separate game board pieces from other Legos, and for being sure you have all the pieces before you start the game. What I would change: the game "marker" pieces are Lego people "hats." They are tiny, and hard to keep up with, and blend in with the colors & shapes on the board, making them very hard to see on the board during play. Keeping up with those tiny hats slowed the play of the game considerably. We improvised by substituting various Lego people from other sets. They were easier to keep up with, and added more character to the game.

Lego Racers and the Create It game have been daily events at my house for a couple of months. My eldest turned 3 in March and he's a lego lover just like his dad. The game comes with 6 track layouts (and a 1-6 spinner, which makes decisions easy!). Sometimes he likes to make his own tracks, too! The race with no 'power ups' was a great way to start. I've slowly added things as weeks have passed. His attention span is great for 3 laps using the 'turbos' and the 'sheilds.' The nitros and oil slicks are a little too much and not much good with only two players anyway.

The puzzle-like track pieces are holding up well. If it wears out before my other son gets there, you can bet I'll get another copy!

Fantastic game. Bought last year, my son was four/will soon be five and has a great time playing with this. We enyoy it also. Simple directions, build your own cars. Friends love it too. At age five, my son can now follow the six different track layouts, so he sets it up and we play when it is ready.

My 4 and 1/2 year old is very big into lego racers, both the computer game, and in general, building his own from lego pieces. When he saw this in a board game, he got extremely excited to say the least. I am glad I picked it up. This game is easy to learn and easy to play. (And much more entertaining then candyland). No reading is really required (there are a few things to read, such as lose a turn or go back a few spaces, but having me read it aloud didn't hamper his pleasure of the game any.)
I like the fact that you can change the track layouts. They can be a little difficult connecting on a carpeted floor, but if you play on a table top or linolium floor it's fine.
All in all, worth the money and enjoyed by the family.

This game is lots of fun and well worth the price. Instructions are rather simple so not a lot of preperation is needed to play. The only problem is after many times of playing you will run out new cards.

This game was lots of fun when I got it. The only problem is that you start to memorize the cards. Then you feel like you are cheating when you play someone who has not played the game much. I leave it sitting for a long time and then pull it out again, that way I have time to forget some of them.

Well, my family loves this game and have for years. We are in the age range 23-60 but it makes for a good time at get-togethers. Ages 12 and up?! Ha- the game is very entertaining but I think some 12-year-olds would have trouble with some of the puzzles, however for young adults and adults- it's a blast!

As you can tell from the picture, this puzzle is a picture of any of the Simpsons characters from the television show. Some characters appear more than once (but only a couple of them).

The illustration is really quite nice and it is fun to try and identify the characters and their episodes. Because of the scope of the show, not every character is here but there is a good chance that your favorites will be here.

My only real trouble with the puzzle was that many pieces were not cut through completely. Leave them together, the thin puzzle stock is not sturdy enough to force them apart. The front or back will peel.

Other than the problem above, the puzzle was fun to put together and its lack of large objects made almost every piece a challenge. It provided several hours of fun.

This is the best game for a friday night when all of your friends are over!

We play this game as a family. It does have many pieces, but this is what makes it fun! I recommend playing with more than 2 or 3 others to have a greater chance at gaining the speed and ect. that has been discussed in other reviews. We have found that there is 4 speed character pieces in the game we play. We play this game about once a month and we all enjoy the experience. It is fun building your own islands and building your empire on your individual game cards. For those people that have the game and are discouraged because of the first or second time playing it, give it another shot! It can be a very fun game to have and to play.

the instuructions were to hard to understand and the game it self was in too many pieces and was going to take too long and again i could not understand how to play the game it toke me an hour alone to read the instructions

My eight-year-old son and I just sat down to play this game. He is a huge Bionicle fan and he spent some of his Christmas Money on this game. We punched out all the pieces, organized them and read the directions (TWICE). We were still confused, so we decided to sit down, set up the game and just start to play - figuring that as we played, it would start to make sense. NO SUCH LUCK!!! We put it away after an hour of sheer frustration and my son said "So, do you think this was a waste of money?" I just smiled at him but I thought "ABSOLUTELY!!!!" Next time, before he buys I'll look at the reviews - we are not alone in this opinion.

this is the most fun Lord Of The Rings game i ever plaied

Let me start with what isn't so great. This "strategy" board game is similar to its predecessor - little strategy, little variability, some complexity. Players are restricted to space movement and to performing the instructions on the ring cards. The two 3D pieces of the game (Orthanc and Helm's Deep towers) are made out of a little more than card stock. And you have to construct and de-construct them each time you play. The box lacks in it's ability to provide adequet storage to leave them together, and there aren't any dividers to place the different pieces (character tokens, scoring gauges, cards, etc.).

So, moving onward, there are aspects which I do enjoy.
1. The Helm's Deep tower is a neat concept. Putting the 6 main characters on the tower to battle the Uruks is very cool. There is also an aspect of randomness that goes into how many Uruks will be on the tower with the other players (one time I had 10, another only 3).
2. The most fascinating and coolest part of the game is the Orthanc Tower. Orthanc gets loaded up with a bunch of Uruk "discs" that get released and "rush" out of the tower when Haldir reaches a certain ring space. I still find this a very cool feature of the game.
3. Combining this game with the first one definitely added to the enjoyment factor for me.
4. The game board is made of multiple inter-locking "puzzle" pieces that make up the path for the characters, each piece with different movie scenes and images.

As with the first game, this game is great if you don't want to sit and watch the Two Towers movie.

This game is so cool i don't know what everyone is complaining about.

It is divided into three parts:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers and
The Return of the King

And the only thing i don't like about it is the third part still has not come out.

This game is great. I got the fellowship for a gift 2 years ago and it is perfect if you have nothing to do for like 2 hours. You just need a big table to play on (or the floor).

"Loser Takes All" has all the irreverent feel of the TV show. The rules are too loose to make the game all that challanging for the very competetive and the game's strategy (lose all your money/tokens/character cards) seem like it was designed by Bart and Homer during a commercial. This is primarily a game of chance and luck and one's fortunes (the losing or gaining of the cash/tokens /cards) can change quickly many times during the game. The questions fall into two categories: dares (For $5000 would I wear the same outfit for 100 days in a row?) and personal trivia (How many teeth have I had pulled?).

I recommend this game for families, for those who want a less competetive game and like looking at Simpsons characters, and as a modified drinking game at parties.

I got this game as a Christmas gift, from friends who know how I enjoy the show. In true Simpsons self deprecating style, the box has a generic Krusty "I heartily endorse this game" cartoon, as well as a "don't be brainwashed by corporate propaganda" warning from Lisa. Unfortunately this game could have come right out of a Krusty catalogue: it's a generic product with a Simpsons gloss.

The game has little to do with the Simpsons. OK, the game pieces are Simpsons characters, and the toy money has Homer's head in place of George Washington. But the association with the show is superficial.

The aim of the game is to lose all your money and junk food tokens. You do this by taking turns with a spinner and wandering around the board trying to land on squares that will unload your food or money onto another player.

Sometimes you get to take questions, in this part of the game you read a question from a card and write down an answer. You then nominate another player to guess the answer. Some questions are goofy, like "What is the opposite of hamburger?". Others are personal, like "Do I ask for directions when I'm lost?" or "have I ever worked on a farm?". The questions mostly take an irreverant tone ("Would I ever try to make one of the Queen's guards laugh?"), but there is nothing offensive. There's not too much American-only content, most the questions aren't specific to the US, and some that are, such as "Do I know how a bill is passed through Congress?" (yes, actually) can easily be altered to fit any nationality.

By answering questions correctly, players get to turn over one of their five character cards (if they guess wrong the questioned player turns over his card). When a player gets all five, the game ends and the player with the least assets wins.

In playing the game, I found the lack of rules (you can start anywhere on the board and move pretty much anywhere) to be a minus point. As in society, anarchy equals less freedom, not more. The game lacks direction and people have too many choices -- more like chess than a fast family game.

After a while we ditched the game and just read questions off the cards. Due to the lack of rules, shy players can easily avoid the question squares (though they might get questions from the spinner) so the game itself falls down as a "getting to know you" tool too.

Overall I was quite disappointed. I was looking forward to a game for Simpsons enthusiasts. Instead, I found a game where knowledge of the show is of no benefit at all. You don't even learn anything about the Simpsons, really.

And if I may, I'd like to take issue with the idea that Homer is a loser. OK, he's a bit of a loser, but he has provided for his family for more than ten years, and resisted the advances of both Beverly D'Angelo and Michelle Pfeiffer. How many men can say that?

I bought this on a whim for my husband, and we have played it with several different groups since then. My nephews (12, 7 and 3) played it with us (the three year old on someone else's team) and enjoyed it a lot. We've also played with other adults and had a great time. While the spaces are funnier if you are familiar with the show, you don't need to know anything about it to play.