Mousetrap

Mousetrap: Let the mice live (291 words)
by fuzzybear - written on 21.01.08 (Useful, 70 readings)
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This must be the most frustrating game to play, even more so than the actual game Frustration, the reason is that this game does not set out to be frustrating it just is. I remember when I was young wanting it so badly and then being disappointing well at the weekend it was ny neice turn to share the experience as she had got it for her birthday and was fed up with it after less than an hour. The game looks great as it is a board upon which you construct a truley ornate mousetrap, you then play as one of the coloured mice and if you land on the trap square with the cheese then the mousetrap is activated and if it works you are captured. ...

Convoluted and very, very, very dull (848 words)
by dave27 - written on 03.11.02 (Very useful, 974 readings)
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Now, everybody loves Mousetrap, right? The kids' game which is all about building a fairly convoluted and complicated trap to catch a mouse. Of course. However, it's another thing whether anyone has even the slightest idea what the bloody rules or object of the game are. We're all so bloody obsessed with putting together the pieces to create the trap, and seeing exactly how it works, and we all have such short attention spans, that really this game is one of the true mysteries of science. You see, I challenge anyone to tell me what the rules are. And I'm pretty bloody certain I'll get no takers, although everyone knows about the guy who jumps ...

Mousetrap: Memories! (217 words)
by Xanadu Alx - written on 13.07.01 (Very useful, 127 readings)
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I cannot believe that this is the first opinion on Mousetrap. Mousetrap was the favourite game at our primary school. If you didn't have Mousetrap you didn't have respect. Basically you were a mouse and you rolled the dice to get along the board, however there were loads of traps on the way, and whenever you landed on an "add a piece" spot you had to add an extra piece to the big mousetrap, which was a very complex contraption which you built along the way and consisted of many weird things like a diving man, a ball into a bath, a boot and a bucket tipping a ball out. When the trap was built you had to turn the handle if you landed on that ...