I remembered playing this game when I was a kid (over 20 years ago). My kids are 6 and 8 and we received a copy of Mouse Trap this year for Christmas. When we opened it, one piece was BROKEN. Not "broken in shipping" - just plain broken - the rest of the pieces were whole and the box was not crushed. The game is not playable if any pieces are broken!
A friend had another copy & lent us their piece to stand in for the broken one. Even then, the other pieces did not fit. The boot is supposed to swing and kick the bucket, but as assembled, it does not come close enough to hit the bucket! We have to slightly bend the lamppost to make the boot come close enough to hit the bucket. Sometimes the marble just falls off the shoddy pieces. For instance, the stairs piece, when locked into position on the board, causes the marble to fall off onto the board instead of into the rain gutter. When completely assembled, and then adjusting all the pieces to make them match up (resulting in a LOT of adjusting and time-wasting), we got the whole thing working only 25% to 50% of the time.
We didn't bother with the board game part of it, everyone knows the fun is is in making the contraption work. But the pieces are now so poorly made and they fit together so badly that it is such a waste of money and time.
Plus I was so frustrated trying to get this thing to work that I said it was "crappy" and now my daughter knows a bad word. Yes, we immediately discussed appropriate language when frustrated. But Milton Bradley is now selling games of crappy quality, no two ways about it!Get more detail about Mousetrap.
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