Mouse Trap is a board game that teaches the following important lessons to young children:
- Physics
- failure
- swearing
- never try to help
- a mouse will sit still for a long time while loud things are happening around him
- the girl at the front of Target will give you money back for a toy
With mom off in North Carolina for the weekend, Sam's first idea was to play Mouse Trap. The first observation upon opening the box was that the instructions were only in Spanish. I am not making this up - the whole thing was Spanish. If there were an English set of instructions at some point, they are gone now. By the way, if there was ever one board game where you need the instructions, it is Mouse Trap.
- Physics
- failure
- swearing
- never try to help
- a mouse will sit still for a long time while loud things are happening around him
- the girl at the front of Target will give you money back for a toy
With mom off in North Carolina for the weekend, Sam's first idea was to play Mouse Trap. The first observation upon opening the box was that the instructions were only in Spanish. I am not making this up - the whole thing was Spanish. If there were an English set of instructions at some point, they are gone now. By the way, if there was ever one board game where you need the instructions, it is Mouse Trap.
This is how you play Mouse Trap:
1. Open the box
2. Pull child aside and instruct him or her to sit there and not touch anything for the next 20 minutes
3. Use whatever pieces you can find in the box to assemble a Rube-Goldberg apparatus
4. Confirm that none of sections A, B, C, D, or E are working properly
5. Hand the little trap piece to child and ask him or her to place it directly over a mouse token
6. Declare "mouse is trapped"
7. Put away all pieces
8. Hide game box in farthest corner of attic (sprinkle with insulation to cover)
3 comments:
oh, man you are not kidding about hiding that game. The only thing worse than Mousetrap the board game is Mousetrap the card game. We're finally getting rid of the card game in a yard sale next month.
not how you put it together. you are supossed to put it together as the mice move around the board, and the english instructions are suppossed to be on the inside of the box.
Aunt Jo's is South Carolina
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