Christmas Story Board Game
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Toys and Games Reviews of Christmas Story Board Game
Customer Review: What is this games Story??
Summary: 1 Stars
A Christmas Story- The board Game seemed like the perfect gift for my father, as we watch the show yearly as a Christmas tradition and even last year ventured to the new display house where the movie was filmed in Cleveland....HOW DISSAPPOINTED WE WERE when we started reading the directions (can you honestly call them that), we later found out we were missing a page from the sealed box, yet the basic gameplay info made no sense...the leg lamp pieces were WORTHLESS, as we had to stand them upside down to keep them from tipping over and the only reason we used them or the board at all was for the pathetic 90 or so questions that we just asked each other and made up a way to advance along the board ourselves. I have decided I am taking my knowledge of the movie and going to create new rules, use the board given and make a game worth playing as a family next year. Merry Christmas Dad, next year when you get my real gift....a game board worth playing...Thanks to who ever created such a horrible game that had so much promise from the discription on the box....keep this game on the shelf or see me next year at Christmas for directions that make sense and more than 90 questions on one of the best movies out at Christmas.Customer Review: Very disappointing!
Summary: 1 Stars
A Christmas Story - The Board Game
I have to agree with everyone, SAVE YOUR MONEY! I wish I had read the reviews before buying this game. I bought it for my husband's birthday because he's such a big fan of the show. We opened it to play, and couldn't understand any of the four pages of directions! I thought it was just us until I read the other reviews. Even if we could understand them, after playing once or twice you would know all the answers with the VERY small deck of playing cards. Why would you only put 36 cards in a game like this? Someone really didn't know what they were doing when they made this game. Apparently they didn't plan to sell many or they would have made it easier to understand, had a lot more than 36 cards and made the tokens where they actually stood up. We still have no idea how to play the game, and even if we figure it out by the time we play it a couple of times we will know all the questions. What a rip off! Actually a rating of one star is too much!
Customer Review: Wow this game was bad. I mean REALLY bad.
Summary: 1 Stars
We found it funny that this review asked us "How durable is this toy?"
The durability is great--we threw it against the wall, and there wasn't even a scratch on it.
"A Christmas Story" game is the Hindenburg of board games. "Oh the humanity."
My girlfriend and I spent an hour trying to understand the directions and laughing at the typos. The game makes no sense. The leg lamp pieces tip over way too easily (like if you breathe on them or look at them).
And the questions themselves--they were so hard they could have been in Latin for all we cared.
Like others who have commented about this lousy excuse for home entertainment, we thought the misunderstanding was on our end. It was not.
After slogging through the first two pages of incomprehensible directions, I actually thought the game was a joke, like an April Fools Day prank. It was not.
Luckily, we purchased the game for $1 at a garage sale. We overpaid.
Next time, I hope "A Christmas Story" board game manufacturers think twice before nearly ruining our favorite holiday movie.
Customer Review: THIS is the biggest POS game in history
Summary: 1 Stars
First off, it was a gift from my wife. She is CRUSHED that the game is an impossibility to play. I challenge most people to decipher the directions in one day and be even close to playing one game successfully.
Instructions are cryptic at best. Ages 8 and above??? Are you kidding me? After 2 hours of intense examination, we gave up. How the heck are you supposed to score? Object of the game???
The lamp game pieces will remain standing about 2.113 seconds before they fall over. The game cards are thinner than most playing cards (they are actually about twice as thick as a sheet of paper). The other game pieces are nothing more than a stamped out piece of cardboard.
Did anyone notice that the faces of most of the characters on the game board are blurred out? I guess they didn't sign the release or they didn't want to be associated with this puzzling torture "game".
Save your $20-$30. Spend about $5 on UNO cards and the other $15 on some excellent beer. JUNK JUNK JUNK.
TO THE THRIFT STORE!!!
Customer Review: Thank God we're not alone....
Summary: 1 Stars
O.K... whew!!! After buying the game and having a group of 5 adults... all hardcore A Christmas Story movie fans (and all well-educated i might add) pass the directions back and forth back trying to figure out how in tarnation this game is played to no avail, I can breathe a sigh of relief. It wasn't just us!! We all ended up in a fit of hysterics because not one among us could decipher the 4-page instruction booklet well enough to even try to start this game. Well... strike that... we DID start it, and then after about 5 minutes, and after sending someone to 'The Alley', we realized that we had no clue how to proceed. It was late, and we figured we were just overly-tired to figure out what was OBVIOUSLY an easy game since it was for ages 8 and up... so we decided to sleep on it, try again in the morning. Yeah... no such luck. Even after a good nights sleep, it STILL is like reading Latin.
I can now rest easy knowing that we're not a group of total idiots. Shooting your eye out would be easier than playing this game.