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Pass the Pigs


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Minimum age:
(official)
7 years
 
     
Rating:
(average)
6.5 
Year: 1977 
Publishers:
Milton Bradley
Winning Moves
 

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UserRatingMin. AgeAdults TooComment
Aranza8  This game is mindless fun, with a tiny bit of strategy. The packaging makes it a great travel game: everything you need fits in the small, plastic case and that can go in a pocket. Yes, the adults can use play it out for all its raunchy, gambling, boozing value, but kids wont have that cultural referent and can enjoy it form a fairly young age.
boltongeordie84Yes A great little push-your-luck game that is small enough to fit into a pocket and helps with mental arithmetic. Nicely themed. Reckon my kids will be 14 before they realise what 'makin bacon' means. :)
Gecko238  Everyone loves the pigs, and for a quick, compact push-your-luck game its hard to beat.
shumyum8  My kids (5 y.o. twins) really enjoy this. One loves to press his luck and the other does not...but they both do fine. A GREAT way to teach simple addition. My favorite game to take on camping trips.
cindy76Some quick and somewhat fun but not rewarding.
maksum7  It is a bit tricky to remember the different positions and how they score, but it is a fun light game about risk taking and pushing your luck. Not a lot of depth, but it is fun to make those agonizing decisions to keep rolling or keep the points you have already made.
Mark7  Pretty fun, light game if you do not mind the randomness.
mcross77Some Mindless, but kids love the pigs.
pikkusiili200076  
sevorges7  Light and silly game. Not as challenging in decisions as Yahtzee but a nice intro to push your luck decision making.
moakm6  My kids think it is okay. At 6 and 8 they just like to roll the pigs, I have to keep score. The pigs are cute though.
THoiA6  Not sure why I see the minimum age being 7 here as any kid can drop those bouncy plastic pigs and look at the pictures in the rules and see which they got. Is it fun? Yeah the kids will get a kick out of it but my daughter did tend to grow bored after a game or two.
Ed the Red5  Reasonably good fun; children like thowing the pigs and it is fairly mindless and harmless as a game. There are better games out there but it is portable and generally quite quick to play. Quite good in teaching people not to be too greedy (and also when you have to try to take big risks to have any chance of winning).
Admiral Fisher4  Providing you leave "Makin Bacon" out or call it something else, you can get away with it for kids, but I think this is more of a game adults would want to play in a pub, then kids would round a table.
Randy Cox3  Not a kid game. A drinking game. Or at the very least, a game where the adults (loosely stated) are waiting to see if anyone can really roll the *makin bacon* configuration. I cannot see bringing this out to play with the kids.