Editorial Review

Please wait to be seated for Dish It Up!--a colorfully designedgame of matching and simple counting that'll serve a stack of fun topreschoolers. Players are dealt clever renderings of guest checks fromthe imaginary "Blue Spoon Diner." Each check sports cartoon drawings ofa chef, a main dish (BLT, hotdog), a side order or dessert (such asJell-O or fries), and a beverage like cocoa or milk. Players then turnover 2 of 40 facedown tiles, each one a picture of one of theabove-mentioned foods or chefs. If both tiles match up with pictures on theirguest checks, they hold them and continue their turn by drawing twomore tiles. If only one (or none) matches, they turn them back down andrelinquish their turn. Players matching all images on their checkscollect a $1 tip. First player to earn $5 wins the game. If you'relooking for pastimes for younger fry, Dish It Up! serves two to fourwell-done. --Tony Mason ... Read more

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Editorial Review

For those of you tired of all the fun being had by a certain dog (andBingo was his name-o), the folks at Gamewright would like to provide a littleequal opportunity for kitties. With Kitty Corners--a nice dice-and-mice race tobe Top Cat by getting either four in a row or all four corners--themanufacturers present another award-winning educational game. Players attempt toplace a mouse token on their colorful bingo board, each square of which depictsone of four cats in feline frolic. Roll both the kitty die and the action dieand cover all squares that match the resulting picture. Is that Sassy playingwith her yarn? Or Meatloaf bugging a bird? But watch out for Cat Scat on theaction die: you'll have to remove a mouse from your board. Kids shouldfamiliarize themselves with the pictures on both the boards and the dice beforeplay begins so they don't get frustrated making matches. Only one human appearson the die, while the board depicts four (all constitute a match), and Meatloafis a big bundle of brown spots on the board, but solid brown on the die. Fasterthan a hungry kitten, and sharper than claws on a new sofa, Kitty Corners is thecat's pajamas. --Tony Mason ... Read more

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Editorial Review

What's the Bzz? Well with Gamewright's Bzz Out card game, there's awhole lotta hive-hoppin' and honey-swappin' goin' on. A deck of whimsicalnumbered cards (Anthony Lewis's illustrations depict a cartoon swarm engaged inactivities beginning with, appropriately enough, the letter B) is used asplayers take turns deciding if they want to keep the top card from their hive ortrade it to the beekeeper on their left, in an effort to have thehighest-numbered card (and thereby score a Honey Pot token) after all keepershave played. A Bzz Out card enables you to tell a prospective trader to "Bzzoff!" and it scores you a token, too. But don't feed the bears: get caughtholding a Honey Bear card at the end of the round, and surrender a token.Designed for three to six players, Bzz Out is a great little game with a nicestrategic sting. --Tony Mason ... Read more

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Reviews (2)

FUN for everyone
My 6 yr old got this as a gift, but my 4 1/2 yr old loves it too.It's great for their memory and counting skills.Plus it's just fun and the pictures are really cute!Sometimes we play it backwards and start with 9 and count down to 1.And sometimes we say the numbers in Spanish to practice that too.This is a game you can really enjoy playing with the kids!Often I'M the one who asks THEM to play it with ME!We have several Gamewright games and they are all excellent for educational value and fun.

Great Game for Families
My daughter recieved this for a birthday present.It amazingly takes 12 minutes.You will want to play it over and over.We are looking forward to getting more of these card games. ... Read more

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I just couldn't stop playing!
I was at my dance recital backstage for an hour before it was my turn to perform and my friend asked me if I wanted to play the game.I didn't know how to play. but it's easy to understand the rules.We started playing it, and before we knew it a lot of other girls were playing with us too.Once we finished one game, we had to play an other.I just couldn't stop playing it. You can have up to 6 people playing it, so it's perfect for a party. I think this game is fun foranyone.I also kind of figured out why the title has the word dangerous in it- When yougrab a charm, everybody starts yelling and grabbing really fast.It's a great card game even for a long trip in the car!

Great Game!
I loved "She's Charmed and Dangerous". It is a shout and grab card game. My friends and I are all addicted to it and play it whenever we can. The only problem is you have to grab a tiny little heart when someone shouts "Charmed" and everyone ends up scratching each other and the cards get bent up. But other than that I would recomend this game to anyone. Even adults can get addicted! ... Read more

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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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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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Editorial Review

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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Great Game
A very nice game and I can even play it with my 4 year old twins. It helps them to recognize patterns as well. It was our first game from this manufacturer. Nice quality. We even decided to try another game from them.

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 areNOT 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. ... 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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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 game
My sons have loved this game from ages 5 - 10, and it's still interesting for me after several years.The cards and box have held up very well, and the pictures are high quality.

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. ... Read more

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FUN for everyone
My 6 yr old got this as a gift, but my 4 1/2 yr old loves it too.It's great for their memory and counting skills.Plus it's just fun and the pictures are really cute!Sometimes we play it backwards and start with 9 and count down to 1.And sometimes we say the numbers in Spanish to practice that too.This is a game you can really enjoy playing with the kids!Often I'M the one who asks THEM to play it with ME!We have several Gamewright games and they are all excellent for educational value and fun.

Great Game for Families
My daughter recieved this for a birthday present.It amazingly takes 12 minutes.You will want to play it over and over.We are looking forward to getting more of these card games. ... Read more

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