Build this crazy contraption piece-by-piece as you race around the track! It is fun to build this comical wonder but woe to the mouse that gets caught under the trap. Includes game board, 4 plastic mice, 2 metal marbles, 25 mouse trap building parts and accessories, and 52 cheese pieces. Instructions in English and Spanish.
Build this crazy contraption piece-by-piece as you race around the track! It is fun to build this comical wonder but woe to the mouse that gets caught under the trap. Includes game board, 4 plastic mice, 2 metal marbles, 25 mouse trap building parts and accessories, and 52 cheese pieces. Instructions in English and Spanish. Made in USA with some small parts made in China.Build a better mousetrap? We dare you. Naturally, the object is to trap mice in the mousetrap, while avoiding getting trapped. By rolling the die, you proceed around the game board, collecting cheese pieces and building a mousetrap bit by bit. Once complete, you set the wheels in motion, as it were, to try to capture the opposition’s mice. But this is no ordinary trap. With this contraption you start by turning the crank, that rotates the gears, that push the lever, that moves the shoe, that kicks the bucket, that sends the ball down the stairs and into the gutter, that leads to the rod that releases a second ball, that falls through the bathtub and onto the springboard, that catapults the diver into the washtub, that causes the cage to fall and–whew!–hopefully, capture a mouse. The last “mouse” left uncaptured wins –Alison Golder
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Lots of fun, if you’re up to it! I usually groan when my first grader pulls out this game, because I know pandemonium will follow — but it’s always a lot of fun!!!!This game needs to be heavily supervised. Even if you child can read (and kids on the younder end of the spectrum won’t be able to), assembling the mousetrap requires a certain amount of fine motor skills and an understanding of how things fit together. My son has yet to play it with a friend without serious assistance! Even when I play if with him, it is a…
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 opponent’s 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…