Sesame Street Chutes & Ladders | More fun more sturdy version of a classic board game

Sesame Street Chutes & Ladders | Children's Classic

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The classic "up and down" game that little ones love now comes in a special Sesame Street themed edition. The packaging and game board feature colorful images of favorite Sesame Street characters. Land on the ladders to race ahead, but go back if you end up on a chute. No reading required to play. For 2-4 players.

More fun more sturdy version of a classic board game

My daughter who's almost 3 has little idea of how to play and is yet very excited about playing it, because it has the familiar Sesame Street characters that she loves. We tried the original, but she quickly lost interest, because the pieces are flimsy and hard to play with.

The pawns are much better than the original. The original has annoying cardboard pieces that fit into plastic stands. Sesame Street has 4 sturdy solid plastic pieces that are Zoe, Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster. My daughter enjoys playing with these pieces just on their own. The pieces have wide bases, which makes it easy to stand them up. However only one piece will fit on a square at a time.

Like the original Chutes and Ladders, the game consists of a board of 100 squares, and a spinner with the numbers 1 to 6. The board seems visually appealing to kids, because my daughter just likes to look at it sometimes. As far as I can tell, the placement of the chutes and ladders is the same as in the original. The chutes mostly show accidents of various Sesame Street characters like tripping on a banana peel. Unlike the original, there's only two chutes that show morals: Zoe won't share with Elmo and Cookie Monster eats too many cookies and gets a stomach-ache. The ladders show the kindness or heroism of Sesame Street characters like cooperation. So the board has a more positive feeling than the original.

The spinner is separate from the box which is nice.

For those not familiar with the original, here's a further review. You take turns. You spin the spinner and move your piece the appropriate number of spaces. If you land at the top of a chute, you slide down it to a different space. If you land on at the bottom of a ladder, you climb up to a new space.

It's a very simple game which teaches young kids how to count, recognize numbers, take turns, and deal with the wins and losses of playing a game. Like most simple kids' games, it's pretty boring unless you're playing it with someone who's still learning these skills and is excited about it.

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Children's Classic

A classic kids game, with a Sesame Street twist. My kids love playing this game and Mom loves the characters she grew up with (did I just date myself?)!!! We are currently living overseas and this is one of the small things that we do to keep our kids "in touch" with their US peers.

It's just OK

First off, I have no memories of playing this game as a child. It cartainly EXISTED but we didn't own it and to the best of my knowledge, I never played it anywhere. We were a Candyland family. :-D

My husband does have fond memories of this game which is why we got it for our son for Christmas. I wasn't opposed to it in any way, I just didn't have any personal interest at stake, either.

We went for the Sesame Street version because my son, like any red-blooded preschooler, loves Elmo and his gang. The Sesame Street characters are a hit with him and they are definately nice and sturdy - I understand the other version has cardboard pawns in plastic bases that aren't so nice. But for the time being, that's about all I have to say in favor of this game. :-(

Some things I don't like, in no particular order:

1. The spinner is flimsy. I seem to recall games with spinners built in to the box insert or with elevating sides. This spinner is stand-alone and the base is flat. If you set it down on the table or floor, it doesn't spin freely. You have to hold it up, which is not a huge deal but just one more frustration for a child. We use a die to play instead, although I plan to cut a hole in the box insert to lay the spinner over so we can use that if we wish. Poor design there.

2. The lessons this is supposed to teach!!! Some just don't make sense - Oscar in his can with a sign that says "Boo" at the top of a slide, and laying on his side (in the can) at the bottom. Huh?? You'll fall over if you try to scare people? Elmo at the top of a slide, making a snowman with no hat or gloves or coat. Elmo sick in bed at the bottom. You don't get sick from being cold! I don't want to teach my kid some old wive's tale!

3. This game says it is for ages 3-6 but my kid really isn't ready for it. He turned 3 on Nov 16 and we gave this to him for Christmas, and he really has a hard time with it. And I think he's a pretty average kid. He knows his colors and shapes and he can count to 20 (although he skips 14, 15, 17, and 18 ;-) )but he isn't ready for this game. I know there are people who will say their 3 year olds did great with this game. Some of them may have extra bright children. The others may be lying. The path on this board is not terribly clear, you really do need to know how to count and count high to follow it well. At least, it helps.

I think this will have merit as my son get older and is better at counting and understand numbers, but I think it's a little too much for right now. Your milage may vary.

I think that by the time a child is ready for it numerically, though, he will be outgrowing the appeal of Sesame Street. So in retrospect, the Sesame Street version of this seems a little odd, but as I said, the pieces are nice and sturdy at least. I would say that 4 may be the minimum age at which you should introduce this game. [...]

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