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Slap Ninja comes in a front open cardboard box attached at the with a couple plastic style ties, easily cut with sissors, a small plastic ties at the bottom. Player 1 is the Ninja Master who uses the Huge Karate Chop SLAP to defend the precious coin from the sneaky thieving opponent. So this is an electronic and very cute, ninja topped and hilarious version of the playground game we’ve all played – with sound effects and a buzzer! Remember putting your hand out in front of you and challenging people to see if they can slap it? Yep. This is it in a more refined manner. Haha.
Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye [except the sleepless nights part, that lasts for decades I think] and I wanted to enjoy every moment I could and make it as fun as possible. But, before we move on to deluxe Master Mind, let’s start with the original game. The History of Master Mind You can still buy new versions of the original Master Mind from toy shops and online. Some versions use the name Master Mind (or sometimes MasterMind) whilst others have very similar names for what is effectively the same game. What is obvious though is the absence of Invicta’s strong iconic brand. They're based in convenient locations including supermarkets, newsagents and train stations. Plus they're often open late and on Sundays. Master C has had a bit of a thing for playing noughts and crosses recently. He’s realised that with a bit of logic you can make it impossible for the other player to win. He likes winning. Rather a lot. As a responsible parent I realise that it’s my duty to make sure he understands that in life it’s not all about the winning. Nor is it possible to always win. That’s where finding a copy of the vintage 1978 game Super 3 comes in rather useful.
The couple on the box
We also kept things easy for our first attempt by having the house rule that you couldn’t have repeated colours in your code. Obviously this makes things a little easier. What’s it like to play If you’d like some inspiration for more activities to do with your children, have a look at this. Pin This For Later… What really confused us, and then confused us more when we looked at the (rather brief) instructions, was what happens if the finishing position that you are sat on then becomes occupied by another player’s piece. So if you are already sat there and someone else in the game, coming at them at right angles, sends then home. Do they then send you home? Are you aiming to get to the other player’s coloured squares, or the row in front of them? Home you go! – our verdict Inside the box you’re again faced with a familiar looking plastic game board and an array of coloured pegs of two different sizes. Filed Under: Games for two players, Toy Review Tagged With: game review, ninja, review, slap ninja, toy review, Two player game Vintage MB Games – Super 3
The vintage version of Home you go! that we played was published by Spear’s Games. It is designed for children aged 6 up and two or four players. A modern version of the game is available online. The Slap Ninja controller is modelled after a karate bench. On top there are 3 led lights at either end. One of the “bench legs” is plain, the other has a small button on it and a trigger. Above this “bench leg” is a red coin and a giant ninja hand. TheSlap Ninja game is aimed at children aged 4 and up. I think that this is pretty accurate. Not least because the trigger to control the giant hand takes some effort to squeeze. Isabelle started as the Student and loved trying to ‘steal’ (or should we say press) her brothers coin, as much as Harry loved trying to slap her hand. To Isabelle’s delight she won the first round resulting in Harry getting zapped. They then proceeded to take turns at being the Student and the Master loving it when the other got zapped. Now the aim of the game is to take either three squares in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) or a total of five squares. To win a square you have to either have three pegs in a row, or a total of five pegs. To be able to place a peg in a hole you have to roll the dice. If you roll a number from 3 to 6 or 8 to 11 you can either place your peg in a hole with that number, or in any hole other than the central one of the square with that number.With the strapline “A second to learn… a lifetime to master” I can happily confirm that Slap Ninja is an incredibly easy game to learn to play. Mastering it however is a totally different story. Items that are not available in store will take 3-5 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays) to be delivered to your nominated store. As with so many games of this period, there’s an obvious educational angle to Superpuzzle, which is why it reminded me so much of school maths lessons. It’s also the kind of thing that children of today might smirk at a bit, but yet when my nine year old walked in on me playing at the kitchen table she suddenly wanted a go! Spear’s Superpuzzle – the facts As family who love games we were very excited when asked to review the new Slap Ninja game and couldn’t wait to discover if we are masters or students. The original game features a code of four pegs which are selected from six different colours. This means that there are a total of 1296 different codes that can be generated by the code maker (assuming they can use duplicate colours in their code).
The game itself had a bit of an air of mystery about it. The box cover featured a seated business man and a woman of Chinese appearance stood behind him. The game itself is nowhere in sight. How peculiar. It was perfect timing therefore to tell the kids about the invisible ink story (although Master C is now convinced that he can do no homework and just tell his teachers that he used invisible ink every time!) and also let them have a go at being ninjas themselves by helping me to review the game Slap Ninja from JAKKS Pacific. If you’re interested in vintage board games then why not head over to Facebook and join our new vintage board games group.
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Super 3 is actually a fantastic game to play one on one with a child. It worked brilliantly for my 6 year old son. Complicated enough that he didn’t get bored, but not so complicated that he found it hard and gave up. It requires a bit of strategic though and to understand the rules about when you can place a peg where, but it’s a brilliant game for practicing adding up the totals on two dice too.
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