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| | | Description: | | Inspired by the best-selling children's book by Eileen Christelow, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed is a simple-to-learn game that introduces children to counting and strategy while developing fine motor skills. The object of the game is to get all of your monkeys onto the bed. Sounds easy, right? Well watch out, because your monkeys may jump off the bed at any time. And when they do, its time to start over. Game includes game board, plastic bed, 24 monkeys, 20 punch-out tokens, spinner card with spinner and instructions. | | | Features: | |
• Based on award-winning illustrator Eileen Christelow's Five Little Monkeys book series.
• Introduction to counting and strategy, while developing fine motor skills.
• A fun-filled children's board game modeled after the classic nursery rhyme Five Little Monkeys.
• Put your little monkeys on the bed, but be careful not to let them tumble.
• First to place all 5 of their monkeys on the bed without falling off wins!
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 3.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 10.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 15.75 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.3 pounds | | Package Length:
| 15.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 23 reviews |
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33 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 As much fund as jumping on the bed!!Aug 06, 2007
By Stacie
I got this game for my 3 year old..she is just a little too young to play it correctly..all she wanted to do it put the monkeys on the bed & push the bed button until they popped off. Another year & I know she'll love it as intended. I would definitely buy this as a gift for the 4-8 year old range. Very cute & original.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
great for preschoolersJan 29, 2008
By M. Moye
My daughter has been thrilled with this game. It works together well with the rhyme she's almost obsessed with. Takes a while for someone to win, but keeps the kids entertained the whole time. My daughter just laughs and laughs when the monkeys fall off the bed. Even her grandpa played this game with her and enjoyed it. The best thing is that it has very simple rules that she doesn't mind following and bright colors.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Boring Except for very young childrenOct 23, 2009
By Judy H. Strickland
"Waycross48"
I bought this game for the age range child it is designed for - but - it becomes very boring. The tokens you collect become repetitive - pretend to get ready for bed, brush your teeth, put your pj's on, etc. It's all good until you do it for the 10th time and they get thoroughly bored. The monkeys jumping off the bed is the only part they like and they usually get frustrated because it takes too long and just push the button until the bed "jumps" and bounces the monkeys off. I just think it's a lot of money for a game like this when, for the same amount, you can find something much more fun and interesting - even for those who cannot read. It "looks" like it will be fun - but in reality - it becomes boring very quickly.
14 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 The worst board game I have ever encounteredFeb 23, 2010
By Matthew Goodwin
I'm sort of a board game nerd. I have a closet with stacks and stacks of board games for all occasions - party games, games for "nongamers," obscure games, classics...etc. So, naturally, my wife and I started up a collection of children's board games as soon as our daughter could speak! She now has about ten games in her own closet collection. Some are simple, some kinda dumb, but none are quite so terrible as Five Little Monkeys. It's just astonishing how bad this game is, and its many baffling design decisions are made even worse with a child at the lower end of the recommended age scale. I would advise all parents to stay away from this trash, but ESPECIALLY those of you who, like me, have a very young gamer-in-training.
Where to begin? How about the board design and its effect on the game objectives. The game requires the completion of two conditions for a win: you must have collected four separate tokens and placed four plastic monkeys on top of the large bed in the center of the board. You accomplish this by spinning a dial on a cardboard wheel and advancing 1-6 spaces along a rectangular track, landing on either an image featuring one of the four tokens or a "monkey space" which allows you to place 1-3 monkeys on the bed. There are a couple of issues here - the board is designed in such a way that, with one or two exceptions, you will always land on the same space every time you spin a '5.' In other words, if you just collected the "teeth brushing" token, spinning a '5' on your next turn will bring you to the next "teeth brushing" token on the board. If you spin another 5 on the following turn, the same thing will happen...and so on and so forth. This doesn't sound like too big of a problem, until someone spins '5' four times in a row, effectively missing three consecutive turns, as advancement in and of itself doesn't really achieve much.
This is further compounded by the fact that monkeys can be knocked off the bed, in a manner similar to some other classic games. At the end of each player's turn, that player must press a button on the bed, and every few turns the mattress will bounce up, knocking a few monkeys back off the bed. This can be very frustrating under the right conditions, and can greatly extend the length of the game if it manages to keep victory out of reach that much longer for all players. It gets worse the more players you add to the game (up to a maximum of 4). It isn't much fun for anyone when a player spins 5 a couple of times in a row and then proceeds to knock all of his or her own monkeys off the bed (happens more often than you might think).
Perhaps the worst part of the game for younger players is keeping them on track throughout their turn. Most games for very young children are set up so that a turn has two steps...three at most. Generally speaking, you roll something or spin something, and then either move your piece and react to that movement or simply react to the result of the spin/roll. In Five Little Monkeys, the child must spin the wheel, move the monkey, place monkeys on the bed OR collect a token, press the button on the bed, and then collect any of their own monkeys that have fallen if the bed sprang up this turn.
We've had this game for several months now and I have grown to loathe it. I try to keep it hidden behind the other games, and I shudder when it is selected. The designs made a huge error by basically combining two games - one in which the player collects tokens, and another in which the player is trying to get monkeys on the bed. Multiple objectives help make many adult games more interesting and fun to play, but for a young child's game? No. Bad idea. HORRIBLE idea. Throw in a poorly designed board and you have one heck of a stinker. AVOID, fellow parents. Save yourself from this mess!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
fun but lost interestJan 16, 2009
By J. Keahey
"bonjoi"
My 5 year daughter old asked for this for Xmas and she was excited to get it.
It was fun to play a few times, but she has lost interst in it really quick. She still likes to play with Candyland and Operation, and chooses them over this every time..
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