This toy is a lot of fun. Children young and old are quite familiar with Angry Birds on their smartphone, tablet, or whatever else. This is a great way to have your kids take a break from the technology and actually interact and play with their hands, instead of just their fingertips on a screen.
The concept is relatively simple of pulling cards of different set-ups to build and then launching the Angry Birds at the structure.
Parents might need to step-in to help little kiddos assemble the structures or provide some guidance on how to work the catapult. Assembling the structure exactly to the picture on the cards takes some doing, but it's not impossible. It's pretty difficult to hit anything with the catapult, but it's fun to try and try again. If you're actually trying to win, it might be good to bend the rules to allow enough tries to hit something, particularly if you have young children. For us, we take turns building it, while the other keeps trying until it gets knocked down. Simple.
I am going to take a different stance on this review. My son loves this set. The thing is, he doesn't play it by the rules so I can't describe how it is. Under normal circumstances, this game is not easy as aiming the birds in a 3-D world is a lot different than on a 2-D phone screen. My boy doesn't use it as a game though. He uses it as a toy. He does make-believe like you would any other toy set. In that regard, he has a lot of fun with it. He creates his own set-ups and takes his other toys to add some flare to his "levels" and proceeds to do his own thing. He also combines this with the other boxed game to create bigger levels with more pigs and birds. So basically, used as a toy, it's really cool. Used as a game, I don't know, I haven't really tried it other than to try to aim with the catapult (and I did it poorly).
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Fairly entertaining, but can be a little frustrating too.We added Mulligans to our game play... you get three re-shoots per game.Might have to be higher though it's hard to be consistent with that little slingshot!!Setting them up is fun though, and it's VERY satisfying once you're finally able to get the knack for knocking those suckers off their little perches ;)
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My mother and I bought the "on thin ice" game for my niece.She is five years old and loves angry birds.Just for the giggles of it, we cracked it open to give it a test.We both thought the idea was really good, however there was one problemthe launcher is absolutely useless.The bird either flies straight up or it only flies a few inches.We could not imagine how a 5 year old would be able to figure out the mechanics of it.Perhaps I might be able to macguyver a slingshot that would work better.Either way, this game is virtually unplayable.
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Okay, so the game is rated for kids 5 and up, and I read a few people's reviews on this game saying that their kids couldn't do this game by themselves and they were 5+ years old... I think it depends on the kid!!!My child JUST turned 3 and he loves playing Angry Birds on his Kindle Fire, he especially loves the Space version but plays Rio, Seasons, and the original version as well.That being said, I bought the Knock on Wood game thinking he wouldn't use the cards because of his age, and just play his own way.WRONG.My child loves this series of games, he builds the structures BY HIMSELF using the cards!!!It is a lot of fun, he will build one structure (Even level 300!) and then I will launch the birds and knock it down.Then I will build a structure and he will knock it down launching the birds.TONS of fun.Granted, if you buy only ONE of these games, buy the Knock on Wood game, as the birds you get (black, yellow, red) and the wood colored pieces is a better set.Otherwise, when you buy more than one set it makes the freestyle building more fun.In fact, we just purchased the Mega Smash set from Amazon and hope to have even more fun building structures.The Mega Smash set comes with blue bird, black bird, yellow bird, and white bird plus 4 pigs (it should be here tomorrow).I also added the large Angry Birds Indoor/Outdoor game to my cart to purchase later to play outdoors.I think taking the video game and making these fun board games is great, because the child takes a break from the video game and plays an interactive board game with family members or friends.Plus, it is great for learning sharing for the younger kids, and also hand eye coordination and connection by using the cards to build the structures.Children have to think to match the pieces they are using to the cards.5 stars for the whole series from this family!
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My wife, 6yr old boy and 4yr old girl love it.The assembly took me about 20 hours (working all by my self or with "off" and "on" assistance from my 3yr old and 6yr old ยบ).I followed the instructions to a "T", only issue I ran into was in the second set of instructions (for the tube slide), I had to unscrew two bards from the upper deck, and 2 boards from where the tube slide bolts to the side of the upper deck wall¡K I moved the wall boards down a half inch to an inch to ensure the bolts for the tube slide are in the center of a board (vice the very edge I thought it would be "better"), the reattached the upper deck bards.Overall the assembly was not as bad as I was lead to believe (I read some of the reviews).Materials were great. They were dry and about 5 boards split about 2-3 inches from the ends while screwing them into place (I probably would have no split ends if I used pilot holes as one of the reviewers suggested...)Over all a solid 4.5 star product, and I highly recommend it if you have the money and time to assemble it.
