Mouse Trap The Game
Can you build a better mouse trap? When I was a kid, one of the other kids had the Mouse Trap game, but for whatever reason, we'd never get to play it. I was always extremely jealous, because it looked so interesting. It had a bathtub, a diver, marbles, cranks, and this cage which caught mice. There was a sheet which told you how to put it all together. What more could you ask for? But No. The kid wanted to play Chess, so I had to be cerebral. The interesting thing with Chess was that whenever it looked like one of the other of us would win, the loser would throw the board in the air, spreading pieces everywhere, and declare "I'm not playing anymore!"
Mouse Trap is a board game originally developed by Ideal. I always knew it as a Milton Bradley game, but apparently they got taken over by Hasbro. Players travel as mice from one end of the board to the other, moving by dice roll. Upon landing on a square, they either retrieve a piece of cheese, or assemble a piece of the mouse trap contraption that is the game's namesake. There are gears, a marble which rolls from end to end down a miniature staircase, ramps, rubber bands, diving men, and ends of course in a mouse trap, specifically a dome-shaped cage which clatters down a toothed pole. Apparently, the whole thing was inspired by a guy called Rube Goldberg whose main claim to fame was to create devices that are exceedingly complex and perform very simple tasks in a very indirect and convoluted way. My kind of guy.
So a few weeks ago, when I was in a toy store with Ethan, he asked if he could get the game. He'd been given some money from his Grandma, and it was on special, so together we bought it. Of course, we rushed home, and played the game straight away, going through the whole process of building the trap and catching each other at the end of the game. It's a lot of fun the first few times... However, I do think it might be the type of game that you can get a little sick of when your kid asks you to play it every single day, morning and night!
We have had to introduce Mouse Trap rationing. The game is tucked away under Ethan's bed, so at least he knows it safe. He has to catch one of us now in a good mood to even get a chance of playing it. I think its more the incessant demand of "Can we play Mouse Trap now?" that gets our goat over actually playing the game. Its still better than catching mice (or rats) for real!
Ciao for Now, Mouse Catching Angry Dad.
Mouse Trap is a board game originally developed by Ideal. I always knew it as a Milton Bradley game, but apparently they got taken over by Hasbro. Players travel as mice from one end of the board to the other, moving by dice roll. Upon landing on a square, they either retrieve a piece of cheese, or assemble a piece of the mouse trap contraption that is the game's namesake. There are gears, a marble which rolls from end to end down a miniature staircase, ramps, rubber bands, diving men, and ends of course in a mouse trap, specifically a dome-shaped cage which clatters down a toothed pole. Apparently, the whole thing was inspired by a guy called Rube Goldberg whose main claim to fame was to create devices that are exceedingly complex and perform very simple tasks in a very indirect and convoluted way. My kind of guy.
So a few weeks ago, when I was in a toy store with Ethan, he asked if he could get the game. He'd been given some money from his Grandma, and it was on special, so together we bought it. Of course, we rushed home, and played the game straight away, going through the whole process of building the trap and catching each other at the end of the game. It's a lot of fun the first few times... However, I do think it might be the type of game that you can get a little sick of when your kid asks you to play it every single day, morning and night!
We have had to introduce Mouse Trap rationing. The game is tucked away under Ethan's bed, so at least he knows it safe. He has to catch one of us now in a good mood to even get a chance of playing it. I think its more the incessant demand of "Can we play Mouse Trap now?" that gets our goat over actually playing the game. Its still better than catching mice (or rats) for real!
Ciao for Now, Mouse Catching Angry Dad.
posted by Wes at 8:52 pm
1 Comments:
Oh I remember that game - I never owned it either but my neighbor had it.......and it was fun every now and then but not a play all the time kinda game.
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