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Our 4 year old enjoys beating us at this game!
This game is a twist on standard memory card games. There are 16 cards depicting four "surprises" (a dinosaur, a castle, a submarine and a spaceship) that are covered up. You draw a game card with a combination ( 2 dinosaurs ans a spaceship, for example) and you have to uncover the right combo. If you do, you keep the card. If not, it is the next player's turn. Simple, yet fun and different from typical matchmaking games. Our four year old loves it and beats us (even when we really aren't letting her!) Also, a game only takes about 10 minutes so you can play a quick game when you are pressed for time but your preschooler begs "Play with me!" The cards are very sturdy and I am sure they will last through many games. Highly recommend it - for your own child or as a great birthday present for your child's friends. ... Read more

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Winner of an Oppenheim Best Toy Award, this delightful Gamewright card game is as intellectually tasty as it is hilariously unappetizing. Forty-four cards in the bread-shaped deck are nine separate elements of sandwich fare: one card portrays a lettuce leaf, another shows tomatoes, a third offers a smear of peanut butter, a fourth depicts egg slices, and so on. After the cards are dealt, players lay them down on a central pile (Peanut butter on top of eggs?! Gross!) to construct a card-sandwich that can be won in several different ways. If you see a pair of elements, or a "sandwich" of matching elements--for example, lettuce, pickles, then lettuce again--you slam your hand on the food pile and keep the cards. There are also three "thief" cards to stop (i.e., smack!) and eight devilish "muncher" cards, which demand that you get a pair or a "sandwich" while laying down a specified number of cards or you lose your grub. Slamwich takes about 20 minutes to play, and is deeply pleasurable for young ones, and pretty darned amusing for adults, too. Slamwich is for two to six players. ... Read more

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It's addictive...you can't play just once!!!
Since it's arrival in our house, The Slamwich card game has become the most popular game in our neighborhood.The game appeals to a wide range of ages; from 5 to 13 (o.k, I admit it, I'm 30 something and I'm hooked too!) When friends come over, The Slamwich is the first thing they look for. When invited to a friend's house, the game is invited too. We've considered buying another copy, 'cause one kid took it to a sleepover, and the other 2 kids in the house were going through withdrawals! The rules are simple for the younger children, there's no reading involved, the cards are very comfortable to handle, the graphics are entertaining and some are even appetizing(whenever I play, I get a craving for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!) The game promotes quick thinking and action (yes, the kids do get some exercise playing this game...at least in the arm that they "slam" with!) The Slamwich game also insires creativity. The kids have already come up with alternate rules to make it a little more interesting...they "slam" when they see the ingredients to a BLT, and a Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich. When you go on a picnic this summer, don't forget the Slamwich!

STURDY,FUN,FAST Paced
Slamwich is a fun game and it is educational in a way kids don't even realize-it teaches patterns,and helps with hand eye co-ordination. Everytime kids come over to our house they want to play SLAMWICH. I enjoy it too. It's the one game the kids can beat the adults at all alone-with no help. Its exciting-you never know when they will yell Slamwich,or Double decker,or Stop thief!! I am giving them out as Birthday gifts to the kids this year (the ones that want it and can't find it in stores!) Don't listen to anyone that says the game isn't a hit-Give it a chance and work at learning it take a try or two but then they quickly GET IT!! There are ways to make it easy or hard-go with what the kids understand! Its like war. The game is very durable! The cards are NOT flimsy! The box is very sturdy (Its the only game the kids play and the only box that is still intact!) Look aT the picture and se for yourself. Read the reviews-its an oppenheim Best toy award game.
Also its compact so it is not taking up a lot of space and can be brought anywhere in your purse-or kids backpack! Get this game!!! Never met a mom who didn't say--Where did you get Slamwich?? My kids wants it now!

Fun for all ages!!!
This is a very popular game used at the child care center where I work. All the kids love playing this game. Their ages range from five to eleven. As a twenty three year old, I enjoy playing it myself! This game is great for families, classrooms, or parties.

Didn't work in our house
Perhaps we introduced this game at the wrong time... but it failed miserably at our house.
The cards are oddly shaped, and not sturdy, so they got torn and bent (and lost) quickly. No one seemed to enjoy playing the game, even after they understood the concept...

Great cabin game/rainy day game
Our four kids, ranging in age from 11-17, really enjoy this game. It is fun to hear the laughter as they play together. It is tough to find something that my "sports" enthusiast kids can equally share together. Highly recommend. ... Read more

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Taradiddle - For Fun or Instruction
I played this with a second grade student, and he loved it! He keeps asking when we'll play again. This a great, quick game for fun. It can also be used for students with special needs (the population I work with in the schools) in reading nonverbal cues - body posture, facial gestures, etc. ... Read more

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Colorful fun for the whole family!
We really enjoy this game! The cards are very colorful and thick (think durability), and the game is simple enough, but can have endless variations. The cards have either cute snake heads, or tails in a single color. The middle sections of the snake have two bright colors. You take turns each picking a card from the fanned pile, and try to build snakes by matching up the colors. The person who completes the snake (adding the last head or tail) wins it, and slides it to their "snake pit" while making a HISSS. There are two "rainbow" wild cards.

My kids love this even more than UNO, and we have created a version we call "worms or two headed snakes" that they think is hysterical. They are 4 and 6 years old, and have been playing this for a year. They are learning how to be good sports, especially when someone else gets to collect the 22 card snake we all wanted to win. We all cheer for the person who gets creative and combines snakes. I can see this being good for the preschool set learning their colors as well.

If you are looking for a good quick simple and entertaining family game, HISSS would be a great choice. We love it : )

A fun game for the family!
I bought this game for my year old, but my year old and his friends enjoy playing it too! They pull this game out several times a week. It's a fun family game because it requires some thought - but doesn't last too long. It's one of the best "younger child" kids games I've seen.

Fun game!
This is a great game for the preschool-2nd grade age group. The object is to build the most color-coded snakes . There are two rainbow wild cards in the deck that allow kids to help them complete any snake. The other element of the game is having head and tail cards in your hand to complete the snake. This is good for younger kids because it teacher color recognition and older kids learn strategy skills. My sons are 4 and 7 and they've always enjoyed playing this game together. They have introduced it to friends who come over and they always enjoy it. I highly recommend. ... Read more

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Fun game
My kids (5 and 7) love this game. We haven't really played the actual game yet--as soon as the pieces were out of the box, the kids started putting the puzzle together. The puzzle pieces can be put together in endless combinations, and so the fun can last a long time. I figure that by the time they get tired of the puzzle part of the game, I can start reading the rules.

A child doesn't have to read to play this game, but they must love puzzles (and most do) to enjoy it.

The puzzle pieces are made of standard cardboard and they can get worn out after some use. But I think one will get enough fun out of this game to worth the money.

It's a jigsaw puzzle! It's a game!
Why didn't they have this when I was a kid?

The idea of the game is to use puzzle pieces to create a series of long dragons. The longer your dragon, the more points you get. Well, those are the simple rule, which are great for young players, but if you're a fan of strategy games, there are more complex gameplay variations that will put your brain to the test. Or, you don't have to play it as a game at all. It's fun to just put it together as an free form jigsaw puzzle, too.

SNAP Decisions
What to purchase? SNAP is a wonderful decision!!!

Our family and friends have been playing SNAP for some time now with children as young as 3 and adults as old as 83. With its great artwork and creative design and rules, SNAP creates fun times for all.

SNAP play itself involves no language or math skills... it mainly involves spatial relationships - object orientation and color matching. SNAP is very much like doing a very simple jigsaw puzzle. Game 2, the simplest, simply involves being the first player to get rid of his/her cards first. Games 1 and 3 involve points and score keeping.

SNAP has a very unique play feedback mechanism (incorrectly placed tiles won't snap together) that prevents players from making a bad placement of a SNAP tile card. This feature makes SNAP very good for a wide range of abilities. SNAP should be a great resource for persons with disabilities.

SNAP plays quite fast, so parents should always be able to get at least one quick game in with a pleading child when time is tight. SNAP can, however, keep kids busy for hours at a time.

SNAP allows for many variations in play. Children, especially, tend to make up there own games and rules which fosters creativity.

I know of one elementrary school that plans to put a SNAP game in every classroom including special ed classrooms. I could not offer a better endorsement. ... Read more

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Very clever
It seems so simple at first, but once you start playing, some strategy starts to kick in. It's surprisingly engaging. Very fast gameplay. Check it out. ... Read more

Editorial Review

In Mummy Rummy, players dig and sift for Egyptian treasures likeartifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun. As in gin rummy, the object is to formsets of like cards, but the fun of Mummy Rummy is that each card shows a portion of an artifact, so the three-card sets--in black or white groups within five color suits--combine to depict ancient Egyptian treasures (including mummies, of course). A descriptive guide accompanying the 45-card deck shows the 25 possible artifacts and identifies each of the treasures, including cat mummies, coffin lids, and a painted, earthenware canopic jar containing a mummified liver, circa 2000 B.C. This game is an excellent introduction to gin rummy, and children will appreciate the complexity of matching parts of pictures to form a whole image. Players will also enjoy the game's clever mimicking of an archaeological expedition with the dig (draw) and sift (discard) piles. Mummy Rummy is the winner of a Parents' Choice Award and a National Parenting Publications Honors Award. ... Read more

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Great fun!!
My seven yr.old son is very interested in ancient Egypt and artifacts so I got him this game. He absolutly loves it. It is the very first game he chooses to play every time. It is a sure fire winner!

A beautifully designed game.
Mummy Rummy is a cleverly conceived game which requires both strategic thinking and careful observation. It is beautifully designed with tasteful pictures of intriguing egyptian treasures. Cards contain fragments of treasures, and the purpose of the game is to put three cards together to create a whole image. There are a lot of rules to get under your belt at first, but once these are mastered the game is absorbing and satisfying.

Educational Game worth the time
My husband teaches sixth grade and they study Egypt. He uses this game in the classroom and the students love it. We have also played this game in our home with our own children. They also loved it. It is not a game that can just be thrown at the children and expect them to understand it. Parents will need to actually spend time with their children and help them learn it. Once they understand it, they will have no problem playing it by themselves. It can be a very fun, competitive game.

Not so great
This game was a dissapointment after playing Rat A Tat Cat. I am very upset with the quality, because it requires a lot of space and time as well as understanding.

Parents have fun with this too!
We bought Mummy Rummy as a gift for my then 10 year old son. He's 13 now and we still play this game now and then. It's a great family game which teaches kids strategic planning and at the same time does not bore parents. Would make a wonderful, "different" gift as it is not readily found in stores ... at least not in our part of the country. END ... Read more