1. It hides a word game with huge appeal
2. Features 144 letter tiles that are face down in the middle, from which players choose their tiles
3. For 2 or more players
4. Great for travel
5. Recommended for 7 years and up

Editorial Review :

Bananagrams is a fast and fun word game that requires no pencil, paper or board. All you need is a table. One hand can be played in as little as five minutes. It is a great for family fun as well as being educational. Bananagrams portability makes it perfect for travel. Just grab the pouch and go.

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Better than Scrabble

My family loves this game! It's basically all of the fun of Scrabble and none of the hassle (no scoring, counting up points, or waiting forever while someone is playing their turn). It's great for all ages (as long as they can spell), flexible enough to accommodate multiple players, and still fun even with just two people. It's portable enough to take while traveling, and it's easy to teach new players how to play it. The packaging is also cute and makes a nice gift.

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bananagrams

Played this game with a niece and mother-in-law who is elderly and got it so we could keep my mother-in-laws mind working. She enjoys playing it.

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Excellent .................

Perfect for whiling away a quiet evening with the added advantage of being a lot of fun !!

Great for teaching kids how to join letters to make words in a fun way .......

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Great game for the whole family!

I couldn't believe that I ordered this game on a Tuesday and it was here with the mail on Wednesday. I would have paid more money for it in a store and I didn't have to use any gas or time to find it! The delivery was UNBELIEVABLE!! Couldn't ask for any more!

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Easy and fun!

This is a really fun and easy game to play. It has several ways to play. You can even play this alone. It is a great travel game and lots of fun.

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1. All new 4th Edition!!
2. New Graphics!!
3. New Card Art!!
4. New Packaging & Tiles!!
5. Full Color Rules Book

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love it

the game came quickly and in great shape. It is a lot of fun, but a little hard to figure out at first if you have not ever played the game before.


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Great Game for Everyone!

I was amazed I had never heard of this game until now. A friend of ours recommended it while visiting, so we ran out and purchased the game right away. That night we played until 1 AM in the morning. This game is fun!

The instruction book is rather large, but the gist of the game is on the first two pages. My 8-year old daughter picked up the game right away and now wants to play all the time. I really like the fact that the game play is different every time. It is definitely a strategy style game and take a few games under your belt to start developing your own strategies.

Our edition came with extra plastic bags for all the pieces. And everything fits nicely into the box. The game board, at first, fit very tight into the surrounding edges. I found that if I took some of the hex pieces and just rubbed the edges on the table to flatten out the nubs created when punching them out of the cardboard that it fit nicely into the surrounding pieces. You might want to do that too.

If you like playing games, this is a must. This is our new 'family game night' game to play. For two players, the game play lasts 30 minutes to an hour. You can figure that for every extra person play, it will add about 30 minutes or so to the game play.

You can't go wrong buying this game!

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Great group game!

Settlers is a great strategy game geared for a wide audience. The pieces and board were made to be durable and every match is always different due to the different land tiles and different number placings. I'd say the game is a mix between Risk and Monopoly.

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My favorite board game

Settlers of Catan is by far my favorite board game. We encountered it a few years back and it continues to remain the favorite. The standard version is for 4 people, with the minimum age around 10. Extensions are available, and you can easily change some rules if there are only 3 of you. A typical game lasts about an hour.

The players compete to acquire resources and construct roads, settlements, cities etc. There is also an amount of chance since you use two dice at each turn to determine who gets what resources. In that respect it is like many other board games. But there are three main factors that make it very interesting and why everyone feels that they can have a chance of winning each game: (1) the board setup is random, so that everytime you play, it IS a new game (there is a Nexus One app available that allows you to get a more balanced board), and (2) you can trade resources, and only the player whose turn it is can trade so that each time you have a possibility of acquiring points, and (3) there are many ways of acquiring points to take you to victory.

Incidently, Amir Khan once said on his blog that he likes to play Settlers of Catan a lot.

Due to the large number of possibilities the first time you play it seems a bit daunting. But it is worth every bit of you time and effort. The game was apparently invented in Germany to teach about capitalism. It has one the 'Spiel des Jahres' (game of the year) award in 1995.

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Best game ever.

This is the best board game ever made. There needs to be nothing else written about Settlers of Catan. In fact, everything else I'm writing beyond that first sentence is extraneous. If you're still reading this and not purchasing said board game, you are wasting your time.

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1. Build up your army with the Clone Walker, a tough 2-man vehicle with poseable legs and flick-firing missiles
2. Includes 2 Clone Troopers, Clone Gunner, Clone Commander and ARC trooper gear
3. Add #8015 Assassin Droids Battle Pack for even more fun
4. Measures over 3.5" tall
5. 72 pieces

Editorial Review :

March into battle with the Clone Army! As the Clone Wars rage across the galaxy, the Republic army advances across the battlefields of hundreds of planets. Build up your army with the Clone Walker, a tough 2-man vehicle with poseable legs and flick-firing missiles!Clone Walker Battle Pack includes 2 Clone Troopers, Clone Gunner, Clone Commander and ARC trooper gear. Build your army and add #8015 Assassin Droids Battle Pack for even more fun. This Lego Star Wars set has 72 pieces and measures over 3.5 inches (8cm) tall. Recommended for ages 6-12.The Lego brand is more than simply a familiar logo. It is the expectations that people have of the company - towards its products and services, and the accountability that the Lego Group feels towards the world around it. The brand acts as a guarantee of quality and originality. They achieve their mission by constantly focusing on their strong brand. Lego strives constantly to develop innovative products which promote creativity and fun-packed play.

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Great set for Star Wars fanatic

My 3-year old is obsessed with Star Wars - he's dressed as a star wars character for the last two Halloween, and will probably continue to do so for the next 2 years. The set was well received - he carries around one of the snow/storm troopers with him everywhere in the house, and has lost one of the little troopers and another helmet within the first 48 hours after receiving the set. there's a bit of educational value, since he's trying to repair the clone walker when the pieces come off, although for the most part his 7 year old brother is doing the repair jobs.

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Clone Walker - lego toy

Great value and fun to build lego set! This one caught my son's attention due to its uniqueness and it stand's out from the other lego star wars sets in the same category & price range.

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The clone troopers are on the way!!

I bought this set because I wanted the figures (especially the clone commander) for my clone army. This set comes with one clone commander figure that has a normal printed head, torso, and helmet. The only thing different about the clone commander is he is equipped with black commander gear and pistols. In addition to clone commander this set comes with two normal clone trooper figures that have normal printed heads, torsos, and helmets. They are equipped with short blasters. This set also comes with one clone gunner figure that has a normal printed head but a special printed torso and helmet. He is also equipped with a short blaster. The walker itself is very simple build and when finished it looks very fast and maneuverable. The walker is equipped with to two flick-missiles (one on each side of the cockpit) and one primary blaster cannon. The walker can also seat two clone troopers. Well, here are the basics of the set:

The good things

Clone commander
Clone gunner
Clone troopers
Short blasters
Commander gear
Commander pistols
Walker

The bad things

Stickers
Flick-missiles
No blaster rifles
No controls in the walker

Over all, I highly recommend this set.


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A good lego set

This is a pretty simple set that can be built in about 15 minutes or so. The walker also has good pieces for a builder who likes to make spaceships. You get two minifigs of clone troopers.

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Great Lego set at a good price

This is a great Lego set at a good price! My daughter loves playing with it especially the clone trooper figures.

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1. Built-in light sensor illuminates moon when room gets dark
2. Remote control
3. Automatic or manual function shows 12 phases of the moon
4. 15 minute audio CD provides a guided tour to the moon
5. Auto shut-off to preserve battery life

Editorial Review :

What's different about the moon tonight? It's inside your room! Authentically detailed, Moon In My Room hangs on your wall and shines moonlight just like the real moon. Twelve different phase settings let you match what the real moon looks like outside tonight!

Listen to the included audio CD to learn exciting facts about the moon and its unique relationship with planet Earth.

Customer Review :

uh...amazing!

I've bought 100 things on amazon, or more. The last time I gave a 5 star was in 1998. my 3 year old talks about this thing daily, and it was one of the best investments I've ever made. Buy this, and you will be so glad you did.

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A big hit

I have a four-year-old who's fascinated by all things related to space, planets, stars, etc. And he loves his new moon. It's sufficiently bright and easy to hang up and use. It cycles through the moon phases and turns itself off after 30 minutes of inactivity. It really does look like the moon. And it took my kid around ten seconds to figure out the remote control, which works from all angles and from across a typical kid's room. It's not a precision optical device but it works fine for what it is. Requires 4 AA and 2 AAA batteries.





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Very cool, even I learned the phases!

Two girls 3 and 4 love the moon, thought this would be educational and indeed it is! We have all enjoyed it and they were interested in it so much that we now look everyday to check that we have the right phase, and even I have learned the phases. Very cool!

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Great for space-crazy kid

Looks like real moonlight, good for night lite as it turns off on it's own. My boys love the remote and I like the moon up on the wall where they can't touch it.

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Great for any child interested in the sky

This Moon works great, it goes through all the phases and sparks discussions on the sky, the moons cycles, etc. My son loves it.

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1. 2-4 players
2. ages 6 and up
3. 45 minutes
4. Games Magazine Award: Best Family Game Runner-up 2007
5. Mensa Best Mind Game Award Winner 2007; Major Fun Award Winner 2007

Editorial Review :

Our tactile wooden block game combines the logic and strategy of Set® with the creative multi-maneuver game play of Scrabble®. Easy-to-learn rules mean youll be creating columns and rows of matching colors and shapes in no time! Look for opportunities to score big by placing a tile that touches multiple pieces and matches both shapes and colors; the player with the most points wins. 108 blocks.

Customer Review :

Soooo fun!

This game turned out to be fun for the whole family! It is a thinking/strategy game that has been fun for my 6 year old to my 52 year old husband. I thought it would just be a little kid game with colors & shapes, but you can really score some points with some strategy!

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good game to help with analytical thought

I first tried playing with my wife to see how it worked and my son watched. I played with him yesterday and he actually did better than my wife. I think it teaches him to look at things differently and to have patients. I just wish that the tiles were a little thinner so it did not take up too much space in the bag. it would also make the box lighter. It is a good tame though. I am glad that I purchased it.

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Beware: Addictive game!

We are hooked and so are our friends! Teaches strategy adjustment - no two opponents play the same. If you want to win, you will need to adjust your play to counter your opponents' strategies.

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Addictive Fun

This game is fun for all ages. No age is exempt, we had players as young as 6 and as old as 68 playing and they all have gotten as addicted as I am to this game. You just can't stop playing it.

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Great game!

Received this game yesterday and played it last night at our ladies (all over 30) game night, everyone loved it! In fact one of the ladies called after she got home to ask me to order her one. Can't wait to play it with my family, I think my children will like it as well.

The game is a combo of luck (what tiles you pick from the bag) and strategy but mostly strategy. It's all how you play your tiles as to how many points you get so one has to think a bit which is a good thing.

I think this is a game we'll come back to time and again. If you are questioning as to whether or not to buy it go ahead you'll not be sorry.

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