Mousetrap

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. ...  Read the complete review

Going through a spat of childhood memories with my games reviews, and which other game holds so many memories than Mousetrap? You take the part of a mouse, working your way around the board, trying to evade capture from the elaborate mouse trap. Should you set it off, the whole thing sets off a chain of events and catches you. It's one of those contraptions that always seem to go wrong at some point, (seemed to always be the diving man bit that never worked), and you can't help but think they tried a little too hard with this game to make it practical. The worst thing about this game is the set up time and amount of pieces it contains. Putting it ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I absolutely love this game. I never actually had this as a child but my best friend did down the road and we used to play it all the time. My sad thrill was revisited when myself and my partner hired a gite in France last year and this was one of the games in the house. Her face was a picture when she walked in to my set up Mousetrap game and the thrilled look on my face! 'Look what I found!' I shouted excitedly. Mousetrap is a game for up to 4 people. It takes around 5 mins to set up and is relatively easy to play. The aim of the game is to trap your opponants mouse before they trap you. You throw the dice and move round the board doing what it says. When ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review