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    Family Pastimes Max (Cooperative Board Game)
    Family Pastimes Max (Cooperative Board Game)
    Family Pastimes Max (Cooperative Board Game)
    Family Pastimes Max (Cooperative Board Game)
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    Family Pastimes

    Family Pastimes Max (Cooperative Board Game)

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    Description

    • We must co-operate to help get the little Creatures safely home before Max, the Tomcat, catches them. In an exciting way, children learn logic, consultation and decision making.
    • An important issue to discuss is also raised: we don't like Max catching those Little Ones, yet we recognize that he is a natural hunter. How do we esolve this in our minds and hearts? Let's talk it over.
    • Includes: 12 inch x 12 inch board, special dice, 4 movers, 4 cat treats.
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    Lots of Family Fun thanks to Max!We LOVE our Max game! The game is a simple one--keep old Max the cat from eating the bird, chipmunk, and mouse by getting them to the tree. The critters start out a few spaces ahead of Max--and each animal has a shortcut. Plus, you are allowed call Max back home four times during the game.We love this game for several reasons. First, it does not require any reading. The dice are color coded with green and black dots to tell you which animal gets to move (Max or the forest animals). This means that my youngest can play the game and be completely aware of what is going on--which keeps him very engaged. Don't get me wrong though--my oldest is very into saving those little critters too! Secondly, it is a cooperative game. Don't get me wrong, I like competitive games! But it is nice to talk out the strategy with the kids and to work together to solve a problem. It is exciting--but you never end up with a fight or a pouty kid! And finally, it is a pretty short game. At most, it takes about 10-15 minutes. The game has the same rules each time, but since it is based on chance (i.e the roll of the dice), each game is different.Overall, I love playing this game with the kids when we need some positive bonding time! It is an entertaining game--and we all really do enjoy it!5We love Max!I can't say enough good things about Max. I was just on vacation with my daughter 4 and a half who just got it for Christmas, and a 3,5 and 9 year old. It was a huge hit and was played many many times during the course of the weekend. The object is to get all the 3 little animals home to their nests without Max catching them. The game is really simple but because of the idea of Max and the little animals it makes it very thrilling for multiple ages of children. I love the cooperative nature of the game. It's so important for children to have this skill and with this game everyone's on the same team working together to get the little animals home. We did have to do some conflict resolution as the 5 year old insisted that Max was hungry and should get to have one of the little animals! A great part of the game is that when Max is getting too close there are treats that will send him home, and together you have to decide when that will be. I highly recommend this game and plan on buying it again for friends children. The kids all agreed that Max was one of their favorite new games!5Games to pass on throughout the yearsSuch a cute game for your children. This is a popular game in my home. I gift this game to children who invite my children to their birthday parties. Parents have all raved about how cute the game is and is definitely a game to pass on throughout the years. It is nice to actually play a game and not play to win. No tears or unhappy children after playing. Everyone works together to help the mouse, bird, and chipmunk home safely. Children have to think about each move. Will Max creep up on the creatures? Should we call him back home to have a treat, some milk, cat food? Family pastime games are definitely our favorite family board games. You will find yourself ditching the Milton Bradley game's after playing this brand5We love itI play this with my 5 and 8 year olds. The 8yo would never admit that he likes it, but he still comes over whenever it's out! I especially like to take it out on days when they are bickering endlessly. A cooperative game about helpless animals is sometimes just what we need to calm down. I feel it's best for us at this stage because my 5 year old dissolves into tears at the end of every game when his chosen favorite player (usually his brother) doesn't win. Games like this can bridge the gap until they grow into fair gameplay a bit more. I will say that when my 8 year old was being uncooperative one day, an animal was eaten, and my 5 year old lost it. So, it's a work in progress!5A great idea, but seems cheaply madeThe idea behind this game is great - it's a fun idea and we love playing it. However, for $20 I was expecting much better quality. It seems like the game pieces were printed on an inkjet printer and I had to cut them out because they were on punch out paper but did not punch out cleanly. I don't know how long the pieces will last because the paper isn't very thick. There are 2 dice and you have to put stickers on them yourself.Would I buy this game again? Yes. I just wish I'd read the reviews about the poor quality first so I wouldn't have been surprised...4A good game for children that has coop elements in itI'm a recently avid boardgamer who is desperate to have my family play games. I have two children and we play "roll/spin & move" games which drive me up a wall. Not for the time spent with my children, but the complete lack of any kind of strategy other than taking turns moving and waiting for one person to get the right amount to 'win' the game.I want to teach my children about strategy and with the cooperative games that are out; I'd like them to learn to work together in a fun way. My children are too young to even really play Forbidden Island (a game I really enjoy for it's simplicity and cooperative play style).So I saw on boardgamegeek.com a forum post about children's games and it led me to this publisher who has many other games out.The premise of this game is to work together to get a mouse, squirrel and bird home to a tree in the yard and not have them eaten by the tomcat "Max". The cat starts on the porch and the animals start 5 spaces ahead in stump by the porch. You then roll 2 dice. A black dot means to move Max. A green dot is to move the animal of your choice. Two black dots: move max two spaces, two green: move an animal one or two *OR* move two animals 1 space.If Max is catching up, you can call him back to the porch with one of 4 snacks. This will 'reset' Max and he'll try to catch up again to the three hapless creatures.Players take turn moving the animals and can discuss which animal to move and whether to use a treat.If you get any or all animals back to the tree: you win. If Max pounces on all three animals, you lose.Overall, the game has great merits for a child's game. It was produced in 1986, so my hat is off to the game designer who created a coop game back then...when roll and move and trivia games were all the rage.Overall the components and things are very dated and cheaper material...probably made by a small manufacturer back in 86. You could easily substitute the small punch outs for actual small ceramic/plastic animal pieces to help. The game was only $10, so to expect high quality components for that is a bit foolish on my part.My kids weren't into it, but i don't blame the game. i think they are just too young to appreciate it right now. It's got a great themeEDIT: After a few plays, my kids now love this game, as does my wife because the kids love it. I got some wood carvings for the animals and it is a real blast playing with them and letting them help make decisions. We have yet to get ALL the animals back to the tree unscathed, but have a great time doing it.4Sweet cooperative game, suffering from ridiculously poor qualityRight off the bat, I want to say that my rating doesn't reflect my feelings about the concept of the game, but I absolutely guarantee you will be disappointed with the quality. It's a bit too long for its box, it's bowed so it doesn't sit flat on the table, the colours are washed out, the illustrations are outdated and amateur, and the playing pieces are ridiculously flimsy pieces of cardboard that you have to pop out yourself (carefully, so they don't rip). Basically everything you would look for in product quality for a game is absent. Family Pastimes should be embarrassed to produce it.Now the good stuff:The concept is really great for therapeutic use. I wouldn't hesitate to give this product 5 stars if it was better made. I use it in my role as an elementary school counsellor, and I've found it very useful with competitive and aggressive children. With one exception, students have been very protective of the woodland creatures and have worked like crazy to keep them safe. It was actually a very insightful and productive session, the one time I had a student refuse to play cooperatively because he wanted all of the critters to die!This game helps develop a sense of teamwork in students who may have difficulty working cooperatively with peers. It's great to watch students encouraging one another and sharing in disappointment when the opportunities for those responses arise, and it's nice to observe some of my tough guys demonstrating a nurturing side.Game play is about 10-15 minutes. No reading required.Final analysis: Good game concept, but it's not enough to warrant purchasing. I just can't get past the quality here, and that's the basis of my rating of one star. I wouldn't recommend you buy it, unless you see it for about $5. I've found 3 Family Pastime games at Value Village for $1.99 each. Try there first.1Essential game for young children - terrible component quality.DescriptionMax is a classic cooperative game from the 1980 s. Everything about this games oozes nostalgia. Some nostalgia is good (the silly homemade artwork and self-aggrandizing advertisement on the box). Some nostalgia is bad (components of this poor quality are totally unacceptable in today s games). In the game, players roll 2 dice and either help the woodland animals to escape or move Max the Cat (the antagonist). Players win when all 3 creatures reach their tree. To keep the critters safe, players occupy Max by feeding him treats at the farmhouse porch.ComponentsThe box is printed on corrugated cardboard. Nostalgic but cheap. This box won t survive through your average childhood use. My board, like other reviewers , arrived warped. This is completely unacceptable and made the game barely playable. Many times my daughter bumped the board (due to edges that floated off the table) and pieces scattered everywhere. The tokens are made from thin cardboard and the punchouts were poor (off center and ragged edges). The dice were all white and came with green and black paper stickers - also unacceptable. The stickers will come off and I expect to need to paint and epoxy seal the dice. Why no real dice? Why no plastic animal pieces? Why not a decent board?GameplayThere are two main choices that a player makes each turn. First, the players may feed Max 1 of 4 treats. If they do so Max moves back to his starting space. Second, a player rolls the dice and based on the result moves either two animals 1 space (or one animal 2 spaces), one animal 1 space and Max 1 space, or Max 2 spaces. These two mechanisms set the main tension in the game: when to give Max a treat vs. when to make a risky roll. For a small child this is a very difficult decision - if you are too risk averse early you may run out of treats later. Drama!Reactions of playersMy 3-year old daughter loves the creatures and Max. She is most excited to try to move the critters through their sneaky shortcuts. She also likes when Max gets close to the animals so she can give the kitty a treat. Because of this, there is much fun at the start of the game. However, she gets midly upset if an animal gets eaten. Later in the game, as it takes longer for max to catch the animals her attention starts to drift. She also is too young to understand the strategy and is completely risk-averse at the start of the game.Spectrum of playersThis child s game is billed for 1-8 players and ages 4+. It is less fun with only 1 player as there is no negotiation about whom to move. More than 4 players result in a, "too many cooks in the kitchen" situation (quiet and young kids will stop contributing). My 3-year old daughter understands the rules but not the strategy. She can play with an adult supervising but not with only children.For adults playing with children, there are a couple advanced strategies that can make the game interesting. For example, to share roll between fewer critters, you can leave an animal(s) between a shortcut so that Max moves in front. You can adjust difficulty by reducing the number of treats or by changing the square Max resets to.Should you buy it?If you have young children, Yes, absolutely. This is one of a handful of games that is canon for kids aged 3-8 years. A must own. At an MSRP of $15, it is unfortunate that the component quality is so cheap. If you can find it for less than $10 snatch it up immediately. If the poor components are a deal breaker, you can try to find the European version "Max the Tomcat" made by Sunny Games (retail ~$30).4Looks simpler than it is!This game looks so simple, but it's pretty hard and even working together, the cat, Max, often wins.I am giving this a four star (vs a five) rating only due to the game board being bowed, having to put dots on the dice myself, and the not great quality cardboard treats used to call Max back home. I almost sent it back right away because of these things but am glad we gave it a try!If you read my other reviews, you know we like to play alternate ways, and one thing we do is use a regular set of dice and just say that the odd numbers represent a move for the cat, while even means the small animals get to go. (Each die counts as one move only separately still).There is also a Max the Cat game that says it's by the same company for smart phones and tablets. I downloaded and played it today and it was good, but I still enjoy the dynamics of the family around a good board game more. Perhaps that will be good on a trip.Anyway, back to the game, you try to get the small critters to the tree before Max gets them. You usually have to use some strategy of moving along one or two of the small creatures while pushing the limit and hoping Max bypasses the ones left behind by taking a shortcut. You have four treats to call the cat, Max, back to the porch but he can catch up quick on luck.It certainly encourages collaboration and logic, looking forward a few moves to make the best strategic choice. It's still something that kids around four can enjoy and understand. Whole the Peaceable Kingdon games are beautifully made and packaged, thus game, even with its poorer quality construction, still intrigues us enough with its 'tight' winning conditions that we have ordered a few more of the games to try.It's a fun pretty quick play, probably about 12 minutes each game.4Gentle, Cooperative GameI don't often write reviews, but I wanted to say how much we instantly loved this game. My kids that play this game are 9, 8, 6, and 3. We are a boardgame-loving family, but my 6-year-old has high-functioning autism and has a hard time playing competitive games because it is difficult for him to control his emotions. This is the most perfect game for him. It appeals both in its cooperative nature, and its focus on keeping animals safe from a hungry cat (In real life, he regularly attempts to save little creatures from our hunter-cat, so this is very familiar to him)! My children played it five times in a row, and even my three-year-old could play along and be involved. Even my 9-year-old liked it. Max is interesting enough that we can pull this out for a family game night and we can ALL play, and there are no complaints from the big kids or the adults. Thank you, Family Pastimes!5
    Family Pastimes Max (Cooperative Board Game)

    Family Pastimes Max (Cooperative Board Game)

    4.5
    You can't add more than 500 quantity.
    €46,00
    €46,00
    €76,00
    Sold out
    Save 39% (€30,00)