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Hasbro Nerf Dart Tag Refill Pack 30 Tagger Micro Darts

Need more power for you next extreme game of NERF Dart Tag? This refill pack provides you with an instant collection of ammunition. Thirty soft foam NERF darts come with a reusable mesh carry bag and a belt clip so you can carry your stash on the run. Darts measure 3″ long.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Fun for all ages
When the kids and I play Nerf guns, the darts go flying everywhere, so extra ammo is essential to keep up with everyone. Comes with a handy mesh carrying case with a clip that will attach to your belt loop so your hands are free to aim for your target. The velcro darts tend to stick to the inside of the bag, but that’s a minor annoyance for the amount of fun they bring. The name Nerf says it all!

5 Stars Nerf Dart Tag
Loads of fun for all ages!! It’s a great toy to have around when a friend comes over. Fun for both outdoor and indoor use!

4 Stars Fun and wild game – extra darts a plus
Buy the extra darts for a longer battle. The kids love it, older one included. It can get crazy as these darts fly fast and furious around the room. Girls and boys are equally as wild with the darts.

5 Stars Buy Plenty of These
These are a definite must-have. Buy plenty because you will need them. The darts can get easily lost when shooting them – so the more the better.

5 Stars Nerf does it again!
I have two boys; 8 & 10. We play with these things all the time!!! We have a great time with this toy. Can’t give it much of an educational rating, unless of course you live in a tactical environment…we do! LOL! If you have boys, this will get their wiggles out…don’t forget the eye protection. BATTLE-ON!

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The Game of Life Twists and Turns

The Game of Life: Twists and Turns puts a new and modern spin on Hasbro’s classic family board game. It is a game of choices, where players can “test drive” different lifestyles, take their chances and experience the twists and turns of real life. Jobs, money, marriage, children and all sorts of unexpected events — just like real life, it’s all here! Recommended for ages 8 and up, there are a thousand different ways to play this game, and no two games will ever be the same.

Updating a Classic
Like the classic version of the Game of Life, the Game of Life: Twists and Turns is based around real-life events. You’ll choose a profession at the beginning of the game, and roll the dice to progress along the board. As you progress, you’ll encounter all sorts of real-life events (injected with a hefty dose of humor, of course), including marriage, houses, cars and family matters. You’ll essentially live real life and make life-defining decisions, but without having to live with the consequences.

However, Twists and Turns has a number of updates in store. Not only does it offer far more choices and possibilities than the original, it also has a number of new technical features that both longtime fans and newly-introduced players will appreciate greatly. The game now features a “LIFEPod,” which helps players keep track of time and manage their careers, houses, cars and families with the touch of the button. The high-tech interface adds loads of fun to the game. The innovations don’t stop there: each player now gets their very own Visa credit card, which they can use to spend. This not only puts a fresh modern twist on the game, but it also could possibly teach younger players about credit card responsibility at an early age. This gives educational value to an already quirky and fun game.

An updated classic game, this version of Life features a LIFEPod to help keep track of players’ careers, houses, cars, and families.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars College Bound!
My college bound daughter played this game her senior year in high school and loved it. I thought this was the perfect gift to take to college. She plans Life Twists and Turns tournaments in the dorm! I have to say it was fun to play and I am not a board game type person.

1 Star Too many directions
Growing up I loved the game of Life. My kids got this game for a gift and we were excited to try it out. We were all very frustrated that every time you landed on a space you had to read directions. Nothing in this game is self explanatory. We’ve tried to played it twice and have stopped before finishing both times. This may be a good game to play with teens or adults but for an 8 and 10 year old, it is just too complicated. I’m contemplating buying the original Life game for their next gift.

1 Star Don’t waste your life….
Please, if you are looking for good family games, please step away from Life. It is monotonous, it does not require any real decision making skills from you or your children. Games should be fun, thought provoking and change from game to game. This does not. There are so many great family games out there that everyone in the family will enjoy. [...]

5 Stars Life
I like this game. It is a classic, and still fun every time I play it. Fun for all ages! I also like that it doesn’t take too long to play, and is not too complicated.

5 Stars Educational
I used this game in my Bus. Math class as an end-of-the-year wrap-up. It was great!

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Mousetrap

Build a better mousetrap and you can catch your opponents mouse before yours is caught! As you travel around the board, collect pieces to create your trap, then put it together and start up the whole crazy chain reaction this is no ordinary mousetrap! For 2 to 4 players.

User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars Too flimsy
I don’t know if the construction of this has changed since I was little. The pieces are so cheap and flimsy, one broke while we were removing it (carefully) from the packaging. We tried tape and glue and it won’t stay together well. My kids still tried to play it but soon got frustrated at how poorly it works. Looks so fun but isn’t.

5 Stars Great family-fun game
I purchased this for my son this past Christmas, having remembered my own fond memories of the fun we used to have as kids playing this game. It is always a blast to play and the kids learn that anything can happen, which turns into a great lesson about variable change. At the end of the game, my kids even keep setting it back up just to trap mice over and over again. A very good purchase and makes for a great family-fun night (old school style).

1 Star Fails to catch mice
Dear Hasbro,

I have long depended on your products; they have only improved my life. I was afraid that after my sister, Fran, died that I would no longer be able to talk to her but thanks to your Ouija Board I get the opportunity to talk to her almost every day. As a single mother I have also used your products to help teach my children. Once every year I gather around my five kids and we all sit down and play a game of Monopoly to demonstrate why capitalism is a flawed system. We play through the game in one sitting – even if it lasts ten or twelve hours. That monotonous stretch at the end of the game where one or two players slug it out in a slow battle really underscores how the economic system makes us suffer.

The fact that I’ve depended on your products so much in the past is the reason why I find it so hard to write such a negative review for you but I feel that I must. Recently a family of mice moved into our house; a gross affair, indeed. I searched your product listing and found one named “Mouse Trap.” A smile came over me as I realized that this could also be a learning exercise for my kids as it can demonstrate how cruel nature is and how one wrong move can mean your death. I’ve tried to teach this before by hanging swords over the dinner table in classic `sword of Damocles’ fashion but I don’t think they quite got the message.

So when your board game arrived in the mail I was eager to put it together. While the way that Mouse Trap itself works is inefficient, to say the least, it properly gives the message that a chain of random events can end the life of any living soul; it also encourages creative thinking! I put a piece of real cheese – made with milk from the cow we keep in the garage – underneath the mouse trap. I also put the little plastic mice in a line as if they were moving towards the cheese. I thought that if mice saw other mice going for the cheese they would find the cheese even more desirable.

We sat all night waiting for a mouse to come by. When the first mouse came he demonstrated barbarism to my children by attempting to eat one of the plastic mice. When he was finally in place underneath the trap I turned the crank to set the trap into motion – but it didn’t work. The little green diver figure did not catapult into the place it was supposed to go. The mouse was content to continue nibbling on the cheese while I made eight consecutive attempts to get the trap to work. They all failed because of that WRETCHED green diver figure. On the tenth try the trap did indeed work, and the cage fell down onto the mouse. The mouse was startled; then he lifted the cage and stepped out, running away with his food.

I fear that my youngest child, Aristotle, is now confused at his place in the food pyramid. I am deeply disappointed in Hasbro as a company that could release such a faulty and amoral project onto the so called `free market.’ I will be hesitant to pick up Hasbro products in the future and if the next product fails on me I may have to abandon your company for good. Let us swear to Odin that this never transpires.

Contributed by: A. Hinders

5 Stars Mousetrap – The Game
The Game of Mousetrap!

Of course you help the younger players set up the game but once constructed my three and six year old grandsons were enraptured for several hours, following the convoluted course laid out. The next day they were back at the table dropping the marbles and watching the action. Actually, forget the game itself, just watch the marbles do their “thing” in this Rube Goldbergesque” contraption.

1 Star This Game is Stu-pid!!!
When I bought this mouse game it came spilling from the box. Now you know that these bosos don’t even take the time to package the game properly. Then the instuctions were both in Englih and Spanish. I can read both lanuages but this was no fun playing. Then my cat eats one of the pieces and starts choking on it. This game is now a killer of humans and felines? After recusing the cat I continued playing the game. Once I got to the part were the mouse is captured the whole contraction fell apart and broke. After I was so sick of this……game I threw in the garabage. In the garbage. In the garbage. In the garbage. In the garbage. In the garbage. That is how stu-pid this “mice of the trapps is”.

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Hasbro Electronic Hyper Slide

Be quick, pick the right colored hyper disc, and flick it under the arch before time runs out. The Hyper Slide from Hasbro packs three fast-paced electronic table-top games into one compact unit. Recommended for ages eight and up, these fast-sliding games for one or two players are fun and exciting for kids and adults.

The hyper discs can be conveniently stored in a compartment on the side of the arch. View larger.

Three fast-paced electronic table-top games in one stylish unit. View larger.

Fun, Futuristic Table Top Game
With its sleek, arched design, Hyper Slide looks like a futuristic game. Resembling a hockey game for a table top, the object is to flip the pucks through the goal. However, in these games the goal can be scored from both sides of the arch, and there are four different-colored pucks, called hyper discs. The game’s electronic unit calls out a color, and you must pick that color and sent it through the arc. It automatically detects whether you’ve passed the right disc or not. When not in operation, the hyper discs can be conveniently stored in a compartment on the side of the arch.

Three Games for Solo Play or Two-Person Play
The Hyper Slide offers a few variations of play for your enjoyment. Two lighted buttons on the top of the Hyper Slide make it easy to choose which of the three games you want to play.

While the objects of the games are simple, playing them can be a fun challenge. The first game, “Fast Pass,” is all about speed. The game commands a color and you’ve got to pass it through the goal quickly before the buzzer blasts. With “Add One,” you’ve got to remember the order of colors. You start with a color and add one to the sequence each time you complete a round. “Code Buster” gives you 90 seconds to decipher the secret series of colors.

Best of all, you can play all these games with a friend or by yourself. With both “Fast Pass” and “Add One,” you can even play head-to-head with another player or team. For solo play, the rubber “hyper band” is attached under the arch, bouncing the discs back to your side.

Put to the Test
Playing on any smooth, nonmetal surface, you’ll be surprised how much fun the Hyper Slide really is. An announcer’s voice, high-energy music, and sound effects move these games along. With your head in the game, you’ll soon block out all the noise and only hear the color to flick, slide, or shoot through the arch. Unfortunately, if the constant voice directions are not your thing, the game can’t be played without these sounds, nor can the volume be adjusted. On the plus side, the Hyper Slide announces your score at the end of each competition and keeps track of the highest score for each game. This electronic system runs on three “AAA” batteries (sold separately). If the Hyper Slide goes unused for two minutes, this smartly designed toy “goes to sleep,” saving battery life until the player buttons are pressed.

Pros

• 3 fast-paced games for 2-person and solo play
• Lighted buttons make it easy to switch through games
• Games remember high scores
• Electronic game shuts off on its own

Cons

• Game must be played with announcer and music going
• Volume can’t be controlled

What’s in the Box
Hyper Slide electronic game, hyper band, and 4 hyper discs.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Quick fun game
Base houses small pieces so I just have to toss the unit in the closet without worrying where the pieces went. Fun for all ages.

4 Stars great for one or two of any age
For people who enjoy memory games, hyper slide is as much fun for children as teens or adults. Anyone who likes to challenge him or herself on remembering patterns or figuring out patterns will like playing. On the upside, it can be played with one player for when your 11 year old wants to play and an opponent isn’t available. On the downside, the ‘voice’ is pretty loud and you can’t control the volume so it’s not conducive to playing in the same room as someone doing homework!

4 Stars Really cool game for 1 or 2 players
It took my kids a couple of weeks after Christmas to give this weird looking toy a try. Once we got it out and read the instructions it was a hit! Two of my children can sit across from each other and play (kind of like a cross between air hockey, & simon. You have to slide the correct color in a certain amount of time to keep the game going. It has a neat band that goes on so just one player can play and the pucks come back to you. Our ages are 3,7,9,& almost 11 and we all love it.

(The 3 year old can’t really play it, but he thinks he can)

5 Stars More fun than I thought!
I had seen advertisements on TV about this game–but I didn’t think it looked like it would be that much fun. However, after reading the positive reviews here I thought I would buy it for my son’s birthday. It actually is a lot of fun. Plus, I can actually win more often than not. Normally winning isn’t that important–but since I lose to my son when we play video games–it’s nice to have a game that helps me regain some respect!

5 Stars Hyper Slide the fast passn’ action game
Hasbro Electronic Hyper Slide

Hyper Slide is total FUN! It’s the ideal game for camping, lounging around at home or as a way to pass time on an outing.

This game helps you to concentrate, listen, and react as quickly as you can to get the discs through. It has three different game challenges that allow you to choose your comfort zone.

Hyper slide does not give you a lot of time to chat and converse–the object of the game is speed and concentration. If your children need to improve their listening and attention skills this is a must have for them. They will have to concentrate and listen to WIN!

If you want a game that you can enjoy with your kids but does not require a lot of “brain work” then this is the game for you. You can play it on a table or on the floor and it can easily fit in your bag.

Grandparents will even enjoy playing this game. Need I say more?

Michelle J. Dyett-Welcome is a copywriter and reviewer for Smart-at-Home dot com.

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Hasbro The Game of Life

Practice makes perfect in the game of Life. Try marriage, kids, and more. Will you go to college and take out student loans? Or join the working force and collect on payday? Will you go bankrupt, or earn millions in stock and real estate? Anything’s possible with a spin of the Life wheel! A classic family game that can be a reality check–or just a fun time. –Margaret Quinn

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars The Game of Life, a board game
A gift to an eight year old granddaughter this retro board game was a hit. Though the rules are complex (but then so is Life), she had no problems keeping a grandparent straight.

Tired of electronic gizmos? Games like this (no batteries included or needed) can put fun back into family time.

2 Stars Agree w/ the old schoolers – original version much better
I don’t usually write reviews but am so annoyed by this version of Life, I felt compelled.

I also wished I had read some reviews before buying the “new” Life. We played the original version at my in-laws the last 2 Christmases and went out and bought our own this year to have at home with the kids.

Things I liked:

- If you go to college, you start out with debt. Seems reasonable and realistic.

- You can change a career mid-life. You could even lose your job and be forced into a non-college career. That’s life in a recession!

Things I didn’t like:

- They got rid of fire and life insurance. I felt like that was one of the simplest ways to teach my kids what insurance is. We always bought insurance first thing, whenever we could. And delighted when fire ripped through our house but we were insured! But alas, no more.

- Holes in the rules: All the time tested games (board, card, or otherwise) have watertight rules, not a hole to be found. There were several times while playing this version that I scoured the rules for a special case and didn’t find a clear answer. For one: at the end of the game, does your house count towards your cash count? It never says! We assumed it does because if it doesn’t, then what’s the point of upgrading your house? Why wouldn’t you just buy the cheapest house with the 4 children in your car and be done with it?

- Life tiles: Many old schoolers have already complained about the Life tiles. What I don’t like about them is that I don’t see the point in taking them from each other, especially when they are face down. What real life situation does that imitate? You either get $10K for winning a marathon or not, why would you get it from another player?

- No interest charged on debts: That’s just not realistic.

Jury is still out:

- The end of the game is gentler, not an all or nothing decision. I never knew what to do at the end of the original game, to gamble or not. At the end of the new version, I feel like whether you finish first or last, it’s more about whether you’ve accumulated more during the whole course of the game.

Nits:

- The stop signs! Some are before the orange space where everyone is required to stop and some are after! Does that mean we stop at the sign or on the orange space? It’s just that kind of lack of attention to detail that irks me about the new game.

- The people fall out of the car all the time. Annoying!

- Yes, the spinner feels flimsy. Doesn’t have the same weight or whirrrrr as the original.

I may be hittin’ eBay as well. Or we may have to pilfer the in-law’s game because the new one is not up to snuff.

4 Stars Nostalgic
Just as much fun as I remember. Playing it as an adult, I realize this game was truly a product of the 50’s. You had to get a job, had to get married and buy a house. Great family game.

4 Stars Fun Game!
I purchased this game for my 15 year old daughter and she loves it! We have to play it at least once every day. She learns about careers, taxes, housing costs and the overall value of money.

3 Stars Family fun.
We enjoyed this game, which is good for largish groups, but it did take an age to put together. Overall, a lot of fun.

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