Mousetrap

Product Description

Build a better mousetrap and you can catch your opponents mouse before yours is caught! As you travel around the board, collect pieces to create your trap, then put it together and start up the whole crazy chain reaction this is no ordinary mousetrap! For 2 to 4 players.

Dear Hasbro,

I have long depended on your products; they have only improved my life. I was afraid that after my sister, Fran, died that I would no longer be able to talk to her but thanks to your Ouija Board I get the opportunity to talk to her almost every day. As a single mother I have also used your products to help teach my children. Once every year I gather around my five kids and we all sit down and play a game of Monopoly to demonstrate why capitalism is a flawed system. We play through the game in one sitting - even if it lasts ten or twelve hours. That monotonous stretch at the end of the game where one or two players slug it out in a slow battle really underscores how the economic system makes us suffer.

The fact that I've depended on your products so much in the past is the reason why I find it so hard to write such a negative review for you but I feel that I must. Recently a family of mice moved into our house; a gross affair, indeed. I searched your product listing and found one named "Mouse Trap." A smile came over me as I realized that this could also be a learning exercise for my kids as it can demonstrate how cruel nature is and how one wrong move can mean your death. I've tried to teach this before by hanging swords over the dinner table in classic `sword of Damocles' fashion but I don't think they quite got the message.

So when your board game arrived in the mail I was eager to put it together. While the way that Mouse Trap itself works is inefficient, to say the least, it properly gives the message that a chain of random events can end the life of any living soul; it also encourages creative thinking! I put a piece of real cheese - made with milk from the cow we keep in the garage - underneath the mouse trap. I also put the little plastic mice in a line as if they were moving towards the cheese. I thought that if mice saw other mice going for the cheese they would find the cheese even more desirable.

We sat all night waiting for a mouse to come by. When the first mouse came he demonstrated barbarism to my children by attempting to eat one of the plastic mice. When he was finally in place underneath the trap I turned the crank to set the trap into motion - but it didn't work. The little green diver figure did not catapult into the place it was supposed to go. The mouse was content to continue nibbling on the cheese while I made eight consecutive attempts to get the trap to work. They all failed because of that WRETCHED green diver figure. On the tenth try the trap did indeed work, and the cage fell down onto the mouse. The mouse was startled; then he lifted the cage and stepped out, running away with his food.

I fear that my youngest child, Aristotle, is now confused at his place in the food pyramid. I am deeply disappointed in Hasbro as a company that could release such a faulty and amoral project onto the so called `free market.' I will be hesitant to pick up Hasbro products in the future and if the next product fails on me I may have to abandon your company for good. Let us swear to Odin that this never transpires.

Contributed by: A. Hinders


The Game of Mousetrap!
Of course you help the younger players set up the game but once constructed my three and six year old grandsons were enraptured for several hours, following the convoluted course laid out. The next day they were back at the table dropping the marbles and watching the action. Actually, forget the game itself, just watch the marbles do their "thing" in this Rube Goldbergesque" contraption.


I don't know if the construction of this has changed since I was little. The pieces are so cheap and flimsy, one broke while we were removing it (carefully) from the packaging. We tried tape and glue and it won't stay together well. My kids still tried to play it but soon got frustrated at how poorly it works. Looks so fun but isn't.


I purchased this for my son this past Christmas, having remembered my own fond memories of the fun we used to have as kids playing this game. It is always a blast to play and the kids learn that anything can happen, which turns into a great lesson about variable change. At the end of the game, my kids even keep setting it back up just to trap mice over and over again. A very good purchase and makes for a great family-fun night (old school style).


When I bought this mouse game it came spilling from the box. Now you know that these bosos don't even take the time to package the game properly. Then the instuctions were both in Englih and Spanish. I can read both lanuages but this was no fun playing. Then my cat eats one of the pieces and starts choking on it. This game is now a killer of humans and felines? After recusing the cat I continued playing the game. Once I got to the part were the mouse is captured the whole contraction fell apart and broke. After I was so sick of this......game I threw in the garabage. In the garbage. In the garbage. In the garbage. In the garbage. In the garbage. That is how stu-pid this "mice of the trapps is".


Worst game ever. You have to have the hand of a surgeon to assemble AND I do. But, still the worst game for children. Cheap quality, unstable, and impossible to ever get to the actual game since you are reassembling the board CONSTANTLY. Current status of our game after being out of the box for approximately 4 hours: BROKEN.

If you DO purchase this game, buy a bottle of ADVIL as well. You'll need it for the back pain and accompanying headache that comes with the purchase. All for the low price of 18 bucks. Instead, throw your money in the fireplace and you don't even have to wait for the postman to deliver this heap. :)


THIS IS A NICE AND FUN GAME. IT HAS A TON OF PIECES & PARTS BE CAREFUL NOT TO LOSE THEM.


I sat there with my child to put this together. The instructions are terrible, and it was quite a frustrating ordeal. Everything falls apart easy. Great concept if it worked, but terrible toy.


They sure don't make things as durable as they used to! We owned this game as kids and bought it for our son last Christmas. The game hasn't changed much but it's construction has. The parts are cheap and don't fit into the board well and as you're playing it can take a couple of tries to make everything work in sync.


We love all types of board games...but I avoid this one in the game closet at our house. I wish it were easier to get the game started; and likewise to break it down completely and put it away. I think I'm either going to "hide" it or re-gift it. haha. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is because the kids DO enjoy playing once it is set up. But since they are 4 & 7, they need a little help putting it together. It has to be set up *just* right or the whole game is off. Not my favorite. :o

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About Mousetrap detail

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1349 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Hasbro
• Model: 4657
• Dimensions: 3.50" h x 10.60" w x 15.90" l, 2.60 pounds

Features

• Contraption-building table game that pits players against each other as mice trying to navigate through a complex mousetrap
• Race to the finish and nab your opponent's mouse before your own gets caught
• Includes game board, 4 plastic mice, 2 metal marbles, 25 mouse trap building parts, and 52 cheese pieces
• Instructions in English and Spanish
• For 2 to 4 players

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