Dinosaurs & Things Board Game

Dinosaurs & Things Board Game
from TaliCor

Features:

• Educational dinosaur-themed board game
• Includes game board, 4 game pieces, 1 six-colored die, 36 creature cut-outs, 3 decks of cards and instructions
• Game evolves with different stages of educational development for varying rates of play
• Feature a cool, fossilized design for a unique way to move around the board

Editorial Review:

Hermie Card Game (B8320)

This board game, which can be played at four different levels of complexity, is a good way to introduce young kids to prehistoric life on earth. It's played a bit like Candyland: You roll a die and move your fossil playing piece over colored spaces. Progress around the board coincides with the extraordinary evolution of dinosaurs that roamed the planet as far back as 570 million years ago. As the animals adapt and change, players can land on squares that advance their path ("Develop lungs. Swim ahead three spaces.") or hold them back ("Bitten by Plesiosaurus. Paddle back two spaces."). When you land on a creature, collect the matching creature cutout and place it on its skeleton on your side of the board. The winning player is the first to collect all nine of his or her allotted cutouts. (In more advanced levels of the game, players have to answer questions about the dinosaur before collecting the cutout.) --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Great intro to science, history, and dinosaurs
  We first saw this game at the NAGC (National Assoc for Gifted Children) conference this year and were intrigued. Our son is 4 and loves to play the game. We have all learned so much about the different eras and the history of the dinosaurs. Definitely recommended for children interested in science and/or dinosaurs. The different levels of questions allow the game to grow with the child.

• This game is cool!
  By combining a puzzle with a game we found this to be really fun to play. My kids wanted to play it again and were thrilled to be able to answer more questions the more they played. My youngest child even caught me from behind and ended up beating me! The reading,web site and museum list in the instructions was a great added bonus. I would recommend this for any one who likes dinosaurs.

• Could be fun if it wasn't so long!
  I bought this for my daughter (age 4) for Christmas, and she was thrilled to be getting her own game, and about dinosaurs, no less! Unfortunately her enthusiasm (and mine, my almost 6 year old son's, my husband's, and my mother-in-law's) quickly died out as we played. It is advertised as similar to Candyland, which it is. But unlike Candyland, there are very few ways to change the order of the players--once someone gets out in front, they stay there. Even playing at Level 1, when you don't have to answer... more info

• The best part about this game is the multi-level ability.
  My son is 5 and enjoys Level 1, and as he gets older it will still be exciting because there's more to learn.

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