Hasbro Gaming Mouse Trap Game, Multicolor, One Size, C0431

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PRACTICE VALUABLE SKILLS: When kids play the Mouse Trap board game, they can practice skills such as construction, cause and effect, and decision-making If there is no opposing mouse (or mice) on the Cheese Wheel space, try to move one or more mice there. See Moving Opponents1 Mice section that follows. The weight of the metal marble catapults the diver M through the air and into the washtub N, causing the cage O to fall from the top of the post P and trap the unsuspecting mouse. Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you.

What remains an intrinsic element to the gameplay is that sometimes the mechanism just doesn’t work and turning the crank creates only frustration and groans from the players at the malfunctioning machinery. Despite this, or for some players perhaps because of it, the game has enduring appeal and at the time of writing it’s still being published - currently by Hasbro. In 2004, forty-one years after it first went on sale, it was one of the UK’s 50 top- selling toys. The sense of wonder and joy at building an overly complicated contraption and watching the cause and effect of the machinery performing a simple task (or sometimes not!) is central to the game’s popularity. Immediately after placing a part of the Mouse Trap on the gameboard, take one Cheese piece from the pile. Your turn is then over.The board is card laminated with printed paper showing the route the players must take and various spaces to move players forwards, hinder them, or tell them to add a part of the mousetrap. Build Spaces. The Build spaces have numbers printed on them (2, 2-3, 2-3-4). When a mouse lands on a Build space and the number of players in the game matches any one of the numbers on the space, build one part of the Mouse Trap and collect one cheese piece from the cheese pile.

Lose Cheese Spaces. If a mouse lands on one of these spaces, return the indicated number of cheese pieces to the cheese pile. If this board-space says to return more pieces then the player has, the player must return as many as cheese pieces as they hold. These are the six spaces at the end of the path beginning with the Safe space and ending with the Cheese Wheel space. This section of the path is called The Loop and it is where mice are captured. If two or more opponents are tied for the most Cheese pieces, you may take them all from one opponent or divide the amount between them. Your turn is then over. Items that are not available in store will take 3-5 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays) to be delivered to your nominated store.

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Whenever you land on a Build space that's located on The Loop section of the gamepath, you add two parts to the Mouse Trap and take two Cheese pieces from the Cheese pile. Your turn is then over. Once the Mouse Trap is complete, you do nothing when you land on a Build space. The gameplay of Mouse Trap involves players taking it in turns to roll the die and move their mouse-shaped game piece the appropriate number of squares. As players race around the board, they land on squares instructing them to build the three-dimensional mouse trap, following instructions illustrated in the centre of the game board. Once the mouse trap has been built, the aim of the game is to trap your opponents’ mice, which eliminates them from the game. Last mouse surviving, wins. Take turns building the Mouse Trap as you move around the gameboard. Then use the Mouse Trap to try to capture your opponents' mice. ZANY ACTION & CHAIN REACTION GAME: Remember playing the Mouse Trap game as a child? Create special moments by introducing your kids and grandkids to classic Mouse Trap gameplay

Collecting Cheese Pieces: As your mouse moves around the gameboard, you will collect Cheese pieces from the Cheese pile and from your opponents. You may use Cheese pieces later in the game to help you spring the trap on your opponents7 mice. More about this later in the instructions. The first player to collect 6 cheese wedges wins. While kids are engaged in playing the Mouse Trap game, they can practice valuable skills in construction, cause and effect, and decision-making. As they interact with the trap, a working multi-part machine, kids can practice construction skills. When you land on one of these spaces, you must go to the space indicated, but do not follow any instructions printed on that space and do not collect any Cheese pieces! Your turn is then over. Includes gameboard, 4 mouse pawns, marble, 21 Mouse Trap contraption parts, rubber band, 24 cardboard cheese wedges, die, and instructions. When you land on one of these spaces, take the indicated number of Cheese pieces from the Cheese pile. If the Cheese pile is empty, take the Cheese pieces from the opponent with the most Cheese pieces.If the trap fails to capture the mouse, the opposing player immediately moves his or her mouse to the Safe space. If more than one mouse is on the Cheese Wheel space, they may all be captured (or missed) together. WATCH OUT FOR THE TRAP: Scurry around the gameboard, but watch out for the trap! Players set off a chain reaction to catch other players' mice. Be the first to collect 6 cheese wedges to win When you end your turn by landing on the Turn Crank space and there is no op- posing mouse on the Cheese Wheel space, try to move an opponent's mouse onto the Cheese Wheel space and then try to trap that mouse. Here's how: