Leaping Lizards is a fun and colorful game that will keep you guessing. You can jump right over your friends' lizards, but you never know who might hurdle back over you in the next round! Your brain is sure to be bouncing as you race toward the end of the line. Includes 18 wood beads, 16 Secret Creature cards (four of each creature), 10 two-sided Creature tiles, 1 Lead Lizard tile (red), 4 wood lizards (one of each color) string, shaker cup and instructions. Teaches counting and shape identification.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Not the best game:
I bought this for my 4 yr old boy who is way into lizards, but he has no desire to play it. It is kind of slow moving and you do same thing over and over again. We have enjoyed other games much more.
It's better than Candyland:
This is a game that is pure luck, no decisions to be made whatsoever. That makes it only really appropriate for the youngest kids (unless you add wagers or wine to the mix) but, unfortunately, the rules are just complex enough to almost justify that "age five and up" rating. Well, by five or six years old a game that's entirely luck is unlikely to hold their interest for long. (For that matter, I don't think entirely luck based games are the best choice for toddlers either - they get very frustrated when... more info
Great Pre-Board Game:
I use this game for 3-4 year old's as reinforcement for speech therapy. The children I work with adore this game - I like it too. Incorporates matching, counting, color recognition - a great pre-board game. This game can be played quickly to appease the short attention span of little ones!
After you figure it out, it's pretty fun:
We had to go over the directions quite carefully at first to figure out how to play, but once we got it figured out, it's pretty fun. You have several two sided tiles that you put in a shaker (like Yahtzee) and roll them. These tiles have one of 4 pictures of bugs on each side. You also have 4 cards in front of you which match the 4 types of bugs. Each roll, you turn one of your cards face up at random. However many of the tiles match the bug on your card, you move that many spaces. The twist is that one of... more info
