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It’s certainly no secret that we absolutely love playing games as a family. We try to take time each week to sit down with one of the favourites from our ever-expanding games cupboard. Not only does it mean we get to spend some quality time together, playing games also teaches the kids new skills too. We are really excited to be working with Drumond Park, one of the UK’s leading games companies. The first game we have to review is Shark Bite, which is brand new for Autumn. We have an extra game to give away to one of our lovely readers too, read to the end to find out how to enter.
Shark Bite is a fun tabletop game that the whole family can enjoy. It’s perfect for younger kids as it encourages turn-taking and the use of fine motor skills. The game is suitable for ages 4+ and is available from all good toy retailers with an RRP of £24.99. For more information and stockists, visit www.drumondpark.com.
Daisy and Jake were very excited when Shark Bite arrived, they couldn’t wait to unbox it and start playing. The game is quick and easy to set up, it only took me a minute to affix the stickers to the dice and sharks’ eyes. I really like that the game is already assembled and ready to play within minutes.
The game comes with the shark’s mouth, a die, 12 fish food pieces, and a fishing rod. The aim of the game is to rescue as many of the fish pieces from the shark’s mouth before he bites. The winner is the person with the most fish pieces once the shark’s mouth is empty. Beware though if he bites you lose all your catch!
Daisy and Jake took turns to roll the dice, how many fish you can hook out is determined by the stickers on the dice. They dipped the rod in until they hooked a fish, pulling on the rod you could see the tension in their little faces waiting for the shark to bite.
There were squeals of delight when the shark eventually snapped his jaws shut. The surprise made Daisy and Jake dissolve into fits of giggles. I think at each turn they secretly wanted the shark to strike again.
Daisy was the triumphant winner this time around but Jake didn’t mind at all. They both had fun and that’s the most important thing to me when it comes to choosing games for them.
The game is designed for 2-4 players which makes it the perfect game for us to play as a family. I can see us having so much fun trying to beat each other in this fun game of chance.
I remeber loving Mouse Trap!
I loved Operation
We liked Cluedo
I was a geek and loved chess!!
I know it’s not a board game, but I was always kicking a football around
I love playing cluedo
Screwball Scramble
Loved Frustration best !`
There was a game kind of like this one, called crocodile dentist,where you had to pull out a crocodiles teeth and if you pulled the wrong one its mouth would close,that was my fave so I can see why Daisy and Jake loved this game x
Monopoly
i loved paying a game called perfection
My favourite game as a child was Buckaroo
I loved Buckaroo!
I always enjoyed Mousetrap.
My fsvourite game was mousetrap ….it took ages to set up though !!
Frustration and monopoly
snakes and ladders
I loved to play pop up pirate!
i used to love monopoly and still play it when i can
Cluedo
I loved Buckaroo
I enjoyed cluedo
I liked guess who and kerplunk
snakes ad ladders xx
I loved playing Operation
I loved playing Operation
I loved Frustration, so did our Daughter and we now play it with our little Grandson!
My favourite childhood game was Frustration.
I liked Scrabble.
Monopoly
Mousetrap.
Frustation
Frustation
Connect 4.
kerplunk
Mouse trap was my favourite!
Monopoly
Monopoly
I loved playing a game called Perfection where you had to put all the shapes in the holes before the timer ran out and it popped up.x
Mousetrap, it was brill when it worked
mouse trap 🙂
I liked playing scrabble and I still do
monopoly
COOL
I loved Buckaroo!
Hungry hippos
I liked kerplunk
I loved pick up sticks as a kid
Mouse trap!
I really liked Buckaroo, I always won thats probably why!
I’ve always been a huge fan of Monopoly.
I liked playing connect 4
Buckaroo!
I used to love the Game of Life!
Guess Who
I loved operation as a child and still love playing it now with my child
Connect 4 – I used to give my brothers many a beating playing that 😉 x
Ludo
Dohnutters. Mayhem.
i always loved to play cluedo !
Screwball Scramble
Mousetrap
Frustration as I loved playing it with my dad x
I loved playing SIMON
MONOPOLY
Cluedo! I love it as i always won! 🙂
Guess Who
Hungry hippos
I loved Cluedo, used to play it for hours with my friend!
My favourite game was frustration
Crocodile dentist! 🙂
battleships with my brother
i was called i vant to bite your finger, very rare now! it was a vampire game and if you turned the clock and his cape opened you had to put your finger in his mouth push button at back and it would leave you with a red ink mark!!!
I loved playing Frustration. My son enjoys playing it now .
Has to be hungry hippos
Monopoly
I loved guess who
I loved pop up pirate when i was really young, but me and my brother played Monopoly most weekends as kids
I loved HeroQuest the old MB game
Monopoly was always my favourite
this game looks amazing
Screwball scramble was my favourite, I played it for hours.
Pop up pirate!
I liked monopoly (and still so now!)
Frustration
Frustration
I loved kerplunk.
When I was a kid I had Mr Game and I love it.
I loved playing operation and guess who…… and i call my hubby bill from guess who!
Monopoly…and still love it now…not that I am competitive!!!
Connect 4 was my most favourite.
Snakes and ladders.
Hop Scotch!
I used to love playing “Mousetrap” and “Dreamphone” 🙂
I loved playing Ludo with my aunty and Uncle .we used to play for hours
The Game of Life
My fave was Monopoly Junior
I loved Crocodile dentist when I was a child. I would play it for hours! x
I liked the classics like Ludo and Snakes and Ladders.
Hungry Hippos!
Mousetrap as I could play that on my own if I had to
I loved screwball scramble!
I loved Build a Better Burger x
monopoly
Looks Similar to Buckaroo and operation.
Does this game have an App you can play?
Hi Emma, there isn’t an app available for this game it’s just good old fashioned table top fun. Good luck with your entry x
Game of Life. Thankyou for the competition x
Keplunk
Operation but I wasn’t very good at it!
mousetrap
I used to love Frustration and Hungry Hippos!
I loved Mousetrap and Ghost Castle
Mousetrap!
Crocodile Dentist was always fun
mouse trap
I loved playing Buckaroo and Frustration.
Monopoly
Family fortunes
Monopoly
snakes and ladders
Cluedo was always a big favourite in our house.
Monopoly was my favourite but no one else was very keen because it takes so long!
I loved GUESS WHO!
i loved playing monopoly on family nights although it would always decend into chaos by the end as i would be the one getting mardy when id be losing! haha
I loved mouse trap and then monopoly as I got older
I loved Cludo
Hungry hungry hippo!
Kerplunk
I loved Frustration as it was simple and easy to play x
Big fan of Cleudo – still am!
I enjoyed ker plunk when i was younger
Frustration had always been a favourite of mine
i loved games – Ker Plunk, Guess Who, Frustration & Operation were my faves
I loved Ker-Plunk
I loved playing Frustration when I was younger x
Twister
I loved monopoly
Loved the game of life
I loved othello
Game of Life!
The memory game
I loved Mouse Trap! No one would ever play it with me though mecause it took so long! LOL
My favourite was a game called Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur
loved the game of life
Mousetrap
loved to play kerplunk
Mousetrap!!
A old 1970s set of Mouse Trap
Kerplunck!!!
dreamphone xx
Ker Plunk!
Hungry Hippos!
My favourite game, well it is a toss up between kerplunk and mouse trap.
CLUEDO
Mouse trap
hungry hippos x
Monopoly!
i loved and still love Monopoly…. we collect the board game now, so have a few… i also loved a nice compendium of games… do they still do those… they were great …lots of choice…
Monopoly and frustration. They are now also favourites of my little girls
I loved Screwball Scramble!
Bingo
I loved playing Kerplunk when I was younger it was a great game….. when I was in Asda last week they had a retro cake in the same design and you have strawberry laces and chocolate balls instead of sticks and marbles! Xx
Monopoly, where we all use to sit and play together
I used to love playing Operation and Monopoly when I was younger.
I loved Hungry Hippos
Hungry hippos
Guess who. Xx
I loved scrabble! Still do, although now I’m older I don’t cheat anymore lol
Game of Life
Cluedo.
Mouse trap 😀
Monopoly
Monopoly
I always loved hungry hippos or anything to do with my little fake kitchen!
Don’t wake dad (ironically playing while my partner is sleeping on the settee)
I loved Buckaroo
Cluedo
Monopoly and Pictionary
Mouse Trap
I used to love Connect 4
It was Boggle, actually quite fancy buying it for the kids now x
Monopoly
Hungry Hungry Hippos 🙂
I loved guess who!!
Cluedo!
I loved playing Operation with the family.
Love, love Monopoly! Still one of my favourite games!
Hungry Hippos
mine was frustration
Kerplunk , frustration and connect four were my fav games and kids love them now !
Buckaroo!
buckaroo
Boggle was always my favourite
Kerplunk
game of life
Mouse Trap!
I loved board games as a child, it’s hard to choose a favourite! Cluedo is one I have most fond memories of playing.
Buckaroo is great fun.
Guess Who
I used to love frustration. The ‘pop’ of the dice in the middle.
snakes & ladders
go for broke
Ker-plunk
Guess who
The Magic Robot 🙂
i used to love cluedo x
Hungry Hippos
monopoly but always ended in a argument
Buckaroo
Ker Plunk
i love operation and ker plunk
use to play them all the time
Haha this looks like so much fun. My son loves fishing games. This would be fab!
Scrabble
The card game UNO.
Buckaroo was my favourite!
We loved downfall
I loved playing Mousetrap and Downfall.
Ludo and Monopoly
monopoly
Monopoly and scrabble were my favourites
I used to love Operation!
Operation
Hungry hippos
Screwball scramble was my fav
Mousetrap!
mousetrap
I loved playing Frustration and Kerplunk! I absolutely loved board and table games when I was little and my girls love playing them too.
Pop up pirate
I love cluedo
Monopoly
Frustration
I love playing cluedo
mousetrap
i loved guess who
Frustration
I used to love Jaws which is a bit similar. You took it in turns to take items out of the sharks mouth (no dice or fishing rod that I can remember) and if the shark closed it’s mouth you were the loser. I also liked a game/artistic thing called Rotodraw and we have some in our attic, just need to drag it out for the next generation when they are old enough. Went on holiday earlier this year and found some at a car boot for £1. 🙂
Ker-plunk, used to drive me mad though I was sure that my brothers and sisters were pushing it even when they were no where near it….as you can tell I am not a good loser haha
Cluedo!
Snakes and Ladders.
The Crystal Maze board game
I loved playing Clue, and mouse trap!
going back 50 years but I loved Frustration
monopoly
This looks like a really fun game for the little ones.
Encourages children to take turns,count,and name colours so must learning to be achieved through through play.
Amazing
I always loved Dream phone as a young girl . Was perfect for girlie sleep overs
Hungry Hippos
I used to love playing Cludo 🙂
Cluedo, Still love it now!
I loved playing Monopoly with my Nan as a kid and now I play it with my Grandkids. x
jenga x
I love playing mousetrap
Monopoly
I liked ed Ludo i played it with my mum
I loved Frustration. I’m still playing it now with my children x
I used to and still do love frustration
Monopoly 🙂
Frustration and Tumbling Monkeys!
Hungry Hippos, frustration and snakes and ladders were all my faves
i have always loved scrabble i always played it with my mum to help with my spelling
Operation!
kerplunk or mousetrap but they both took forever to set up
Cluedo
monopoly
I loved mouse trap and screwball scramble
hungry hippos
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