FoxMind Games: Hansel & Gretel, a Cooperative Fairytale, Math, Brothers Grimm Princess, up to 4 Players, 6 and up....

The FoxMind Games: Hansel & Gretel is super cute and fun! This game is great in getting kids to do more than just move a directed tile from a card or a roll of a dice. I appreciate the bit of strategy and complexity that the game allows children ages 6 and up to delve into. Do note that some of the game does also depend on luck. This game does take a bit of setup. You have to put together the scene by popping out the house pieces and locking them together. The pieces stay together well enough and can withstand gameplay without just wearing out quickly. The game play does vary so one is likely wanting to play again and again without it becoming boring. My youngest was intrigued by this game from the theme and the cool looking art. She had no problem picking up how to play. I say it is a game worth giving a shot especially if you are looking for a co-op title.

Hansel & Gretel is such a cute game! From a design perspective, I like that they chose to use no plastic and that everything is made with wood or cardboard. To reduce weight and waste, the game box itself is incorporated as the game board - another small but environmentally-friendly touch. The actual gameplay is a little more complicated than other little kid board games weve tried, but not in a bad way. It is still a relatively quick game at roughly 20-25 minutes per session, and we like that it is cooperative so we work together as a family to try and beat the witch. We tested it with some nieces and the younger one (4) couldnt quite keep track of everything, but the older one (7) liked the game a lot and thought it was just the right degree of challenge. Based on their feedback, I think the sweet spot for this will be ages 6-8.

This looked adorable and we enjoy the Brothers Grimm fairy tales so I thought why not give it a try, even though I thought we'd have to wait a bit for my daughter to understand it. Some of the reviews said it was too complex for kids/themselves to understand. I disagree. My not even 5 year old completely understands the game. We've played it three times now and she asks multiple times a day if we can play it again. AND unlike most kid games, I actually really want to keep playing this game. It is deep but not complex, I would argue. It is simple enough for my 4 year old to play but deep enough for me to enjoy to. Also, it plays well as a two player game!! Which is hard to find. Especially this fun of one. I am being honest here, this is right up there with the best little, little kids games I've played like Outfoxed and Animal Upon Animal. I mean, it's excellent. To the argument that it is too complex to learn and too much going on, I would say that most worthwhile games have a learning curve. This is one even my 4 year old understood after just a few turns so once you start playing, it makes sense and is easy from there. I would say it's the same difficulty in picking up as Outfoxed. What makes this game so fun: 1. The art and excellent board and components - its just more fun to run the wooden pawns along the side of the box vs. plastic ones flat on a board. 2. You are trying to keep away from Baba Yaga on the board you are moving the players around while making completed treats with the titles to collect all 5 gingerbreads. There is an element of luck in the luck of the draw with drawing the tiles, and an element of strategy making sure the tile you lay won't run Hansel & Gretel into the witch, and also in laying the tiles. 3. The box is small so it fits nices in game closet 4. Each game is a little different due to the tiles draw being different so it doesn't feel redundant. I mean this is just a solid, solid game I see us playing for years to come. I have already looked more into FoxMinds other games - I would like more like Hansel & Gretel. Easy 5 stars keep making games FoxMind!

This Hansel and Gretel game made for a really fun game night with the kids. Although the game was designed for players 6 and up, we didn't have too much trouble with getting the younger players (3 and 5) to understand most of the concepts this game teaches. The hardest part is keeping the kids from moving the three game pieces around the track. Gameplay is cooperative. Everybody against the board. The board is a cute cardboard cottage made to look like gingerbread, surrounded by a fence (made from the game's box) on which the Baba Yaga and Hansel and Gretel run. To move the characters around the board, players must lay down tiles to assemble various sweets (mostly frosted croissants, ice cream cones, and donuts) in a similar manner to Carcassonne. Each tile has colored dots on the perimeter, which match the colors for the three character pieces. The number of dots on the outside perimeter is the number of spaces each character moves. Dots that are touching other tiles don't count. As gameplay progresses, the characters begin to circle the gingerbread house faster and faster. It also makes it more difficult to lay the tiles down, as players have to consider the consequences of their actions ("If I lay this tile down, could the Baba Yaga catch up to Hansel or Gretel, or vice versa?"). This is countered by the collection of the Gingerbread tokens, which are earned upon completing each sweet. Each token has the one-time power to move a character one or two spaces in either direction, or to stop movement of a character. To end the game, the players must collect a total of 5 gingerbread tokens. At that point, there is a short passage you can read to the players about how Hansel and Gretel got away safely. Not in the rulebook: If they are doing well and want to keep going, players can go for an extra three tokens (which I hid inside the house before the game started), but the game becomes significantly more difficult at that point, as the characters all begin moving too fast to deal with easily. I'd recommend sticking with five tokens for most players. This game is a great way to sneakily teach children addition, subtraction, counting, matching, and cooperation. It's fun all of us, and we look forward to more sessions in the future.