Hasbro Gaming Clue Junior Game

Love this kid version of clue. It takes a minute to understand that you mark off each room when you visit it on the paper. Doesn't really explain that in the instructions. When playing, you have to find out who has the cake crumb token under them, at what time, and what they drank with it. Also, you have to push hard to get the white tokens onto the characters. It's a fun game that the kids love to play, although my 5 year old does get bored and does something else. My 6 yr old does pretty good, gets distracted easy and have to keep telling them it's their turn, but kept playing til the end. Reccomend 6 or older depending how patient your child can be.

This is definitely a junior version not very entertaining, very easy to play. I wish I would have paid attention to it being a junior and read the how to play first because it is very simple and too easy for adults. You literally almost have to pretend you dont know puzzle so you don't beat your kid every single time.

I bought this game for my daughter, and she LOVES it! We've played 5 nights in a row, and she's won 4 of those times. It takes her a long time to record her clues, but its great that she thinks about it so carefully. Wonderful game for introducing logic and information analysis, both important skills for future math problems! Its a bit more complex to set up than your typical games for young ones, but once you get the hang of it, its fine. This game is tenfold better than the pure luck games kids board games -- I'm perfectly willing to play it every night!

Good game, my 5 & 7 year old Caught on to it pretty quickly. It’s good quality too, the only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is that the game itself could have slightly more detailed instructions. Although it’s not super important and still playable some of it I kinda wing because it doesn’t explain.... like when a character is on a room spot and you want to look in that room after rolling the dice do they not HAVE to move the number of spaces shown and just look under the character or can you not until it’s moved... if that makes sense?

My son loves the game. I’m just giving it 4 stars because they sent the wrong one, we ordered the game misters of the cake, and they sent the broken toy. We kept it anyway.I loved the original clue game as a child, so I wanted my son to have the experience, but without the murder in it.. this is a fun twist for young players

My daughter loves this game. I was skeptical because some people have criticized the game. It's not as complex as the original CLUE, but for a child, it's perfect to introduce them to the basic concept of logic games. This has helped build up her understanding of how to work out a logic puzzle and we're about to introduce the regular game of CLUE. That being said, she LOVES the figures in this game and enjoys it every time we play it. Adults may get bored with it after a while, but it's not supposed to be a game for adults. It's for families with kids. And it's perfect for that purpose.

This game has been a super fun addition to our family game night! I thought my kids would enjoy playing Clue but didn't think all of my kids were old enough to play the Clue of my childhood (you know, the one with the murder theme ;) and this one was perfect! It was easy for my 7 year old twins to pick up the rules fully about halfway through our first game! This is a game my twins ask to play frequently!

Overall it's a fun game and my 4 year old loves it, but there are some drawbacks. The purpose of the game is to find out 1.) Who ate the cake, 2.) What time they ate the cake, and 3.) What they drank. You find out 1 and 2 by looking under the suspect/character pieces and 3 by looking underneath the furniture pieces located in specific rooms. There are Time/Drink tiles you shuffle and place randomly under each Character/Furniture game piece so there is a different solution each game. (One Time and one Drink tile go into the middle of the board for the players to figure out by process of elimination and the "crumb" tile gets shuffled with the time tiles and randomly assigned to a character who becomes the cake villain). Here is what I think is the biggest drawback - Unlike regular Clue, each player is not supposed to "be" a character. Instead, on your turn you are supposed to move whichever character piece you wish. This can cause frustration because you can only look under a character piece by either rolling a white square on the dice, or landing on one of only 3 white spaces on the entire game board. As you keep trying to move specific character pieces to get into a certain room (to get to one of the 3 spots where you can look under them) the other players can also keep moving the piece you need on their turns and it's futile. It makes it really hard to figure out the Who and the Time. This led to us always figure the Drink first and spending the last 2/3s of the game trying to look under the people to figure out the time and cake eater. We modified the rules so each player picked one designated character piece to play/move and when they landed on one of the 3 white spaces on the board to allow you to look under a character, they could look under any character they choose, not just the one they moved. It improved the game greatly. Another small drawback - My four year old LOVES this game, but there are some drawbacks with that too. One of the nice things for small children about this game compared to regular Clue is that the notepad has pictures for each character and beverage instead of text so my 4 year old can play on her own and unassisted check off the items on her notepad using the pictures. The three of us have probably played this game 30x since Christmas, and we are now out of notepads, and guess what - they don't sell any more! So if you plan on this game lasting long term it's not going to make it.