Crazy Tower, Wooden Blocks Tower Building Stacking Kids Game with a Twist of Cards, Avoid Tumbling The Tower, 1-4 Players, Ages 8 and up, 15 Min Play Time

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The media could not be loaded.  This is a very fun game that rewards patience, stillness, and thoughtfulness - all things that, frankly, your average 7 year old (or, at least, OUR 7 year old) could use a little practice with, particularly these days... The game is conceptually simple: build a tower/keep said tower from falling down (depending on which mode you are playing - there are 3, including 1 that is designed specifically for solo play which I love). It is sort of a mix of Jenga and Tetris, both of which are big hits in our house, so this was very fun for us. As you can see in the video, on each turn you have the choice of playing a puzzle piece on the existing card or taking a new card and then playing a piece. There are rules about which spaces you can play on or not, and special bonus spaces for removing pieces, playing again, or swapping pieces with an opponent. It's a very fun way to teach kids to work together, sit VERY still, and think strategically. And I love that there's a play mode that is designed for a single player, with challenges to achieve.

This is a hands-on family game. It's "old school" in that there are no electronics. When we first looked at this, we thought you'd have a tower of blocks, and take turns pulling them out until the whole thing falls down. Fact is, you could play it that way, but that's not really how it works.You get 2 different things: 1) a number of brightly colored wooden blocks, 4 colors, and 2) a stack of "Floor Tiles" or playing cards.A basic game would be 2 people. Each one would get all the blocks of 2 of the colors (let's say, red and yellow), and the other would get the rest (blue and green). You start by placing one of the card "tiles" on the table. This has some red and some white squares. A player begins by putting a block so that it covers some of the blanks, but not the red squares. The next player goes, doing the same. After a couple of turns, you have enough blocks that a player can put another card or tile on top of these. A player either puts on a block, or places another tile on the tower. The card can be placed square, or offset, so the tower begins to lean. Some of these cards have special squares that, once covered, set an action in motion: player goes again, or can remove one of the opponent's blocks from a lower level, and so on. Play until you run out of blocks, or the tower topples. It can be a lot of fun!There are ways to score this, and other variations of the game, where one player is trying to sabotage the others, and so on. There are also a number of solo challenges, if you're just looking to entertain yourself. We prefer to play where we're not bothering to score, just having fun, and that's fine as well. It will take you a little time to read the rules and figure out what variation you want to play.This provides clean fun for family and friends.Recommended.

I played this game w/my 16 year old daughter and we both liked it.This game is like a cross between "Jenga", "Tetris", & "Blockus."The game is relatively quick and fun.The game has to start w/a floor tile that doesn't have any special tiles (action tiles). First person plays a piece then gameplay goes to the next person to the left.On your turn you have 2 gameplay options. 1. play a block on the current floor tile or 2. take a new floor tile from the face down pile and play a block on that.Any time an action tile is covered by a block, that person must do the action. All the action symbols are in the instructions (place another block, remove an opponent's block from lower level, switch 1 of your unused blocks w/their's, etc).The floor tiles (cards) can be placed however the person chooses on the stack. For example they can be diagonal, off-set, etc, but always face up and the blocks always have to be placed flat, not sticking up.The instructions are easy to follow and it doesn't take long to set up or take down. It's a pretty good game.

After having read the description of this product, you hopefully realize that this game is a variation of the popular stack "removal" game Jenga. In this game however, you don't pull a tower apart, but rather, assemble it as part of the game. The pieces are not all the same either. They resemble Tetris style pieces and there are cards that become the blueprints for each level of the ascending stack.A player must put one of their pieces on the card such that it does NOT cover one of the red squares on the surface. When a player decides that they cannot place one of their pieces on the remaining spots showing on the card, they add another card thereby building a new level on the stack, and place one of their pieces on that. To spice the game up a little, there are spaces on the card that when triggered by covering them, allow you to remove an opponent's piece and return it to them. Since the game's objective is to place as many of your pieces as you can, this sets your opponent back a little.As the tower increases in height, it becomes more unstable. Sometimes, you will want it to become unstable as long as you don't have to risk toppling it. There are a few different ways to play the game, including one in which you purposefully try to make the other players fail.So here are my feelings about this game. The materials are not too shabby. The cards probably should have had rounded corners because they are going to take some abuse from falling continuously. But, that's not all that much of a con.The games can last anywhere from a few minutes to about 15 minutes. It is definitely fun to play - don't get me wrong. The problem is that after playing a few times, the novelty is over and I don't know how much I will look to play it again. Jenga was a novelty. It was fresh and new. Now, this feels like a creative afterthought. Maybe kids will re-play it a few times, but I can't see this as a game with a lot of re-play value. True, there are some variations as I stated earlier. But it just isn't enough to keep me coming back.For what it is, you will most certainly get about a half hour of pleasant diversion. But don't expect too much more.