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Mousetrap | 
 enlarge | Brand: Hasbro
Category: Toy
List Price: $17.99
Buy Collectible: $9.40
You Save: $8.59 (48%)
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Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 528
Color: one color
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 6 - 10 years
Size: one size
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 10.6 x 15.7
MPN: 004657
Model: 4657
UPC: 490871003772
EAN: 0490871003772
ASIN: B00000DMFD
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Contraption-building table game that pits players against each other as mice trying to navigate through a complex mousetrap | | • | Race to the finish and nab your opponent's mouse before your own gets caught | | • | Includes game board, 4 plastic mice, 2 metal marbles, 25 mouse trap building parts, and 52 cheese pieces | | • | Instructions in English and Spanish | | • | For 2 to 4 players |
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Product Description
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.
Editorial Review
Build a better mousetrap? We dare you. Naturally, the object is to trap mice in the mousetrap, while avoiding getting trapped. By rolling the die, you proceed around the game board, collecting cheese pieces and building a mousetrap bit by bit. Once complete, you set the wheels in motion, as it were, to try to capture the opposition's mice. But this is no ordinary trap. With this contraption you start by turning the crank, that rotates the gears, that push the lever, that moves the shoe, that kicks the bucket, that sends the ball down the stairs and into the gutter, that leads to the rod that releases a second ball, that falls through the bathtub and onto the springboard, that catapults the diver into the washtub, that causes the cage to fall and--whew!--hopefully, capture a mouse. The last "mouse" left uncaptured wins --Alison Golder
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| Customer Reviews: Read 90 more reviews...
Mousetrap September 30, 2008
M. Vifquain (South Dakota)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
They sure don't make things as durable as they used to! We owned this game as kids and bought it for our son last Christmas. The game hasn't changed much but it's construction has. The parts are cheap and don't fit into the board well and as you're playing it can take a couple of tries to make everything work in sync.
Not parent friendly. July 7, 2008
Mama Smo (ATL, GA, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
We love all types of board games...but I avoid this one in the game closet at our house. I wish it were easier to get the game started; and likewise to break it down completely and put it away. I think I'm either going to "hide" it or re-gift it. haha. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is because the kids DO enjoy playing once it is set up. But since they are 4 & 7, they need a little help putting it together. It has to be set up *just* right or the whole game is off. Not my favorite. :o
 It's a mouse-trap...and you've been caught! February 27, 2008
Ransom Carroll (Moving around in North America)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kids often THINK they want to play something that you are sure will end in tears. Each time, they think--say--that Monopoly will be a great deal of fun (see my forthcoming review), and even if you know they will end up storming off to their room in tears, you need to go along with it. Mousetrap is that kind of a game--it LOOKS so much fun, how could it not be? And if your child has the memory-span of a goldfish, like most do, he'll keep on thinking it is fun, and forget
* the pointless nature of the game itself;
* the way the long thin pieces break and are taped up;
* the way holes in the cardboard surface degrade and the supports begin to fall over;
* in short, the way the game is going to be a disaster.
I was in a position where I could never say "no" (the child in question was the young son of my fiance, and, needless to say, I had to prove myself a "father figure" kind of guy), and I ended up playing this time and time again, and almost every time there was some sort of meltdown involved.
At the same time, the mousetrap itself IS wonderful. Yes of course it is Rube Goldberg but Rube himself could "build a better mousetrap" and this is it! The pieces are all charming, the colors random but non-offensive, and the mechanism, when it works those first times, is a delight to behold. And there is something profound in watching the sequence of events inevitably unfold. You realize that what you have been building is like an egg on a rooftop--the law of entropy won't be satisfied until things are at a much lower energy state. Every change involved is in principle irreversible--it is all downhill from here. Even when you realize that you are the mouse about to be trapped, it is pleasurable to watch it unfold. (A contrast is Which Witch in which getting bonked is totally unsatisfying.) And perhaps the child learns something -- not to be so transfixed with the unfolding of irreversible fate that you end up in jail, literal or metaphorical. [23]
 Mousetrap is GREAT! February 25, 2008
Ida Foster
I just had to review Mousetrap because I saw that it only had an average of three stars. I bought this for my six year old boy who had seen it in his daycare where some of the pieces apparently were missing. He's very interested in marble-runs, particularly rube-goldberg type things that his dad shows him videos of on the internet.
BUT, I hesitated because he is easily frustrated, and as a matter of fact so am I, and I hate assembling toys. Some of the previous reviews on here gave me pause. Also, after I told a friend that I had purchased it, she told me not to take it out of the box "it's too big of a pain to set up".
I gave it to him anyway, and we couldn't be happier. I was amazed at how quickly he figured out how to build it and how well he remembers where all the pieces go. He is very patient when it comes to this toy and controls himself well. And we play it according to the instructions, because we both enjoy building it so much.
I find the pieces to be quite sturdy and now that we own the game, I have to wonder whether it has been improved in some way since the other negative reviews were written. I think it stays together really well. And although I really enjoy setting it up and playing by the game rules, if you are in a hurry and don't want to play by the rules you can set it up in about 5 minutes.
pieces don't link well together January 20, 2008
M. Goss (Akron, Ohio)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The idea of this game is good....take turns building the mouse trap and trap a mouse at the end. But, despite the # of years this game has been around, I think it needs to be overhauled! The pieces must link together securely for the ball to follow a path that will eventually capture a mouse. But I had to use some sticky mount to get the pieces to fit into the holes on the board and stay put. My kids had fun after I put it together and just rolled the ball through the contraption.
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