Concept Kids Animals - Cooperative Animal Guessing Game for Children! Fun Family Board Game for Kids & Adults, Ages 4+, 2-12 Players, 20 Minute Playtime, Made by Repos Production

My 5 year old, homeschool kindergartener isn't super into games like his older siblings. However, we played this at an afterschool program at our library and he loved it so much we immediately ordered it! While it is excellent for pre k and Kindergarten, as well as maybe 1st and 2nd graders, it is still fun for my 5th grader to play with my 5-year-old. The game play is simple and fun. A round takes about 3 minutes, so you cans spend as much or little time as you have!

Our family loves to play games and we got this from a gift exchange. Everyone really enjoys playing it

Came as expected with packaging intact, brand new. Kids as young as 7 can play the easier cards. Super fun, different game, perfect for those with a logical mind or those who think in pictures!

I don't know how it took me almost 10 years after its release to find this game. Such a clever concept (pun intended) and surprisingly challenging. The game pieces are of good quality and the three icon cheat sheets were a great addition to have for players new to the game. It takes a lot of creativity and is quite fun to play.What keeps this game from getting 5 stars? There are two issues I have with it. First, there are many, many clues that I have no idea what or who they are. Like, a ton of them. You can get around this by allowing somebody to come up with any concept they want on their own, but this is still pretty limiting.The biggest issue I have is with the scoring- it just doesn't work effectively, and, after almost 10 years in production, there should be some good ideas by now (the instructions even disclose that scoring is a potential issue and suggest that scores may not be kept. I get it, but c'mon, it's a game!). I have experimented with awarding points for the number of markers used to get somebody to guess the word or phrase (i.e., each round is worth a maximum of 10 points; if the concept is guessed with 5 markers used on the board, the round is worth 5 points; if the concept was guess with 7 markers on the board, the round is worth 3 points, as so forth). We do not play on teams; points are awarded to both the person giving the clue and to the person who first guessed it. I suggest the developers release a 10th-anniversary edition with new clues and revised scoring options.

This is a game night staple at our house (which is saying something with our 200+ game collection) ! It is easy to teach to new players, super fun for all ages, and always full of great laughs.

The first time you play with anyone new it will take a bit of time to learn the new "language" of Concept. It's totally worth it. It's such a fun challenge, and every time I've played the new players start out hesitant and stick with the easiest ones. As we play though, everyone wants to try the harder ones, and we get more and more comfortable with the board and learning how to communicate with it.My 21 year old niece has Downs Syndrome and her parents were initially skeptical that she would be able to play on her own. Once she caught on, she absolutely loved it and really excelled! Her parents were really excited for her to have a game that enabled her to communicate really well without requiring a lot of language skills. Would also highly recommend for groups where not everyone speaks English as a first language. Its nice that there are 9 options on each card, as everyone can find at least one option that they can confidently get.

Good Game for young families

We play Taboo. We play Pictionary. But we've been through the Taboo cards (and refills) half a dozen times, and a few in our group feel too artistically challenged to enjoy Pictionary as much as the others.Enter Concept.We read the review in Games Magazine and thought we'd enjoy it. "Enjoy it", turns out, doesn't even approach it. This is simply a brilliant game. Although you can start playing it almost as soon as you read the instructions, don't. Try the examples. Look over the categories on the board--ALL the categories. Then ease into it with the easy clues. And let your imagination soar.The premise of the game is that you'll place markers on various categories/clues to convey concepts. Thing+In+Mouth+White=Tooth. Toy/Game+Black+Red+Grid=Checkers. So far, so good. But eventually, you'll come up against something a little more complicated, even in the easy cards. The inventors took that into account by allowing sub-concepts. Main concept: Building+Metal+In+Country. Subconcept: Country+Blue+White+Red. Subconcept: Food/Drink+Liquid+Purple+In+Country. Yeah, it's Eiffel Tower.Use the rules, or don't. Although the rules say you may use the word "Yes", we expanded to also allow the word "No". We allowed each team to pass a card if they absolutely didn't know what it was (We're fogeys, so only one person in our whole group knew what Sonic the Hedgehog is). We eventually did away with the scoring. And for a group as competitive as we are, that's saying something. But this was just too much fun to let scoring interfere with the flow of the game.The best part about Concept is you learn just how creative your friends and family can be. One of our friends tried Fictional Character+Male+Young+Transparent. No wait, not transparent. Yes, transparent. No, not transparent. Harry Potter. Too cool.Not a cheap game, to be sure, but worth every cent. I'm completely hooked.