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Do not worry about the game, just build that Mousetrap!
I know that "Mousetrap" is a game in which players take turns trying to capture an opponents mice, but I am going to take a radical position and say the whole point here is to build this Rube Goldberg version of the proverbial "better mousetrap" and get it to work. Yes, the first time or two that you play this with your kids you can follow the rules and declare a winner. But from then on the fun is just putting this contraption together and getting it to work. The important thing here is that they understand the whole idea of a "Rube Goldberg machine" (he was the inspiration for this toy, even if he does not get the actual credit) and to appreciate the idea of taking a simple every-day real-life problem such as catching a mouse and solving it with a complicated mechanical solution such as what we have here, where you begin with a shoe kicking a bucket and eventually, if everything works correctly, ends with trapping a mouse. This is a game where the way it really works is that young kids want to learn how to put the "Mousetrap" together and get it to work. After they master that skill they will become bored with it, at which point you simply discover some new kids who have yet to be exposed to this unique, classic game. There are certain games that every kid should be exposed to and "Mousetrap" is on that short list of classics.
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Strummin Singing Woody
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Bought for 4 yr old son. Very sturdyly made, can be dragged around and bounced off floor and still looks new. Songs are very clearly sung. My children know the words inside out now!! Only dissappointment by my son was that the guitar cannot be removed...
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Back Spin
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The object of Backspin is to place all the coloured balls in their matching coloured slots. Sounds easy... but simple, boring, dull and frustrating? Its none of these, but rather is absorbing, eye-catching, intricate and challenging--and it can also be very calming so patience is rewarded. This award-winning game is made up of two black circular discs, joined at the centre only, to enable them to revolve in both directions. Each disc contains six coloured slots, with the same colour balls. W..
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Nursery Rhymes Book
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My 9 month old son did like this toy... for the first 5 minutes (although we all know its the same with ANY toy). He learnt that everytime he turned a page different sounds/tunes played but it was a little too hard from him to press the little arrow buttons. They could have been a bit chunkier and m..
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Rush Hour
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This captivating game could have been made with Londons rush hour in mind. In fact Rush Hour was invented by American games company Binary Arts. In the US it went down a storm, winning various prizes including a national award from Mensa. The objective of Rush Hour is to move the little red car out of the snarled up traffic gridlock that the game begins with. Rush Hour arrives with 40 challenge cards, which depict various gridlock scenarios to set up your traffic jam to. ..
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Inchworm
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This brilliant Inchworm, modelled on a caterpillar, is one of a wonderful range of brightly coloured soft toys developed by award-winning US company Lamaze. They have been designed to help parents to choose appropriate toys to promote play at various ages and stages of development, in order to foster a childs learning. The various toys are age graded and colour coded for the four Lamaze phases of development: "Sensory Awakenings", "Birth of Exploration", "Birth of Doing" and "Pretend and Discove..
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