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Thought Hammer

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Time Well Spent

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Minimum age:
(official)
8 years
 
     
Rating:
(average)
7.3 
Year: 1997 
Publishers:
Uberplay
Ravensburger
 

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UserRatingMin. AgeAdults TooComment
brafman10   
boltongeordie96Yes Easy to learn, fun to play, short, interesting artwork. What is not to like here? An so what if my 6 year old will desperately outbid everyone to get his favourite buildings (the Space Station and the Sewer). Fun pure and simple.
pikkusiili200086Yes  
rfage8  My 7 & 8 year olds request this game. It is very easy to learn and an excellent introduction into auction games.
sevorges8   
Shade_Jon8  The kids like it because the rules are easy and the cards are cute. But they do tire of it after a while.
shawndumas86Yes Great adult game. Pre-teens and teens are likely to enjoy if they get it. No half naked women, gore, cursing, or morbidity.
SoLove8  For some reason, my 9 year old excels at this game. I can beat adults OK but my son has won every game that we have played. Needless to say he loves this game.
Yokiboy87Yes For Sale is one of the ultimate fillers. This game takes a minute to teach, plays quickly and is a ton of fun. Even though kids might not understand the realty theme, they will laugh, admire, and giggle at the various buildings and easily grasp gameplay. Classic game!
Admiral Fisher7  Yep. This can work nicely with children from about age 7 up, but again, there is a fair amount going on and if you play it seriously, they should not beat you too often! I do suspect though that there would this is the type of game that children under 12 could tire of after 3 or 4 plays - when the intitial daftness of buying cardboard boxes wears off.
agenteasy7  The idea: Buy houses and sell them back to potential buyers Components: This is a card game, though it comes with some cardboard money as well. The way it works: There are two rounds. In the first, you auction off the properties which come up (from sets equal to the number of players). In the second round, you turn up a series of cheques which represents buyers for the properties. Each player plays one of the properties they purchased in phase 1 face down. Whoever placed the highest value property gets the highest cheque, and so on. Comments: This game is great fun. There is typically a lot of laughter and groaning as players reveal their cards in phase 2 and realize they have either scored a high cheque with a low value building or wasted a high value one for nothing. It iss also extremely short, about 15 minutes, which makes it easy to slip into an evening without making it the exclusinve activity. As an adult game, I give it a 9. I have played it with an 8 year old, and he liked it too, though some of the tactics of hidden information are lost on him.
ef78Yes  
guantanamo710Some  
laraberrycross78Yes Cute cards, gameplay is simple, but kids tend to miss some of the strategy.
moakm7  A fun auction game! Eight year old still struggles with reconciling the buying round with the selling round, but he has done very well in all the games we have played so far.
RPardoe78Some Attractive cards attract the kids. Not a game to be played over and over, but once or twice every so often for a change of pace. A game I might travel with due to size and wanting to fill in a few minutes here and there.
The Unbeliever79Yes Plays quickly!
Germarish6   
mentis67Some A two stage bidding game. The first stage has open bids, the second stage has secret bids. The best part of the game is the art and the conversation that it generates. Easy to teach and easy to play. Not the best game ever, but children like it very much.
Thommy85  Great auction card game of buying and selling property, especially for a group of 4-5 people, but children may not entirely understand it, or enjoy it for that matter.
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