Pass the Pigs
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Toys and Games Reviews of Pass the Pigs
Customer Review: Pigs on the Run, See How They Run...
Summary: 5 Stars
For under $10, those who have never seen this game before will get their money's worth just by looking at the package. Little pink pigs that you toss in the air! A sleek 1950's-style metal container, as if you're going compete with the Russians in pig launching. A bonus card game named "Snout." Get out your transistor radios and Etch-A-Sketches and have a retro party (hold the ham)!
THe concept is simple and brilliant. THe pigs are your dice, and you get points for the positions in which they land. Each of these positions has a name (e.g. Snouters, Trotters), and the more improbable, the more points (although I'm not sure that this has been physicist-tested). Yes, it's great for toddlers and kids, but it has that great goofy quality that nonconformist teenagers and young-at-heart adults will love. Not sure of hte all-important zany/stable balance of your new sig. other--get out the Pig game!
While the game can get old after awhile, what game doesn't. It can be put away and brought out whenever a suitable occasion arises. For kids, you might want to pair the porcine ones with one of the books in a Amazon.com listmania list that I compiled: "Piggy Lit. 101." Like the "Hungry Hippo" game, I suspect that "Pass the Pigs" appeals to some deep-seated animal instinct, long repressed. Get this game, have fun with it, laugh at it and with it, and release your inner pig!
Customer Review: Portable Fun for Everyone!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I bought this at a small gift shop on vacation thinking it might be fun when we got together with his game-loving family...we were right! It was a blast. We played it at first just the two of us, then with my 9 year old nephew (who loves to show off his addition skills!) and then with mu husband's adult brothers, middle age parents and uncle and even his 78 year old grandmother. It was fun, fast and just plain silly! Our aunt down the street went out and bought it that same week. My father-in-law is a fairly serious man (a doctor from London) and he loved it so much he asked for it for Christmas! We bought it off Amazon and will give it to him this December, 2002! The only thing I want to mention is that "travel" game might be misleading. The pigs (that act as dice) must be thrown on a smooth, flat, unmoving object such as a table or even a tv tray. This game would not work well in a car - for those who travel long distance with kids. But it IS small enough (the size of a checkbook and just as flat!) to take in the car to play on rest area picnic tables, on top of a cooler at the beach or an RV or airplane table. This game is fun and highly recommended by me and my entire family!Customer Review: The Ultimate Travel Game
Summary: 5 Stars
Pass the Pigs is really the ultimate travel game. It's entirely contained within a handy dandy carrying case for easy transport. The plastic case is about the size of a checkbook and contains all you will need for hours of fun and hilarity. Nestled inside the case are two pink pigs, a small tablet (with golf pencils), and (of course) the rules. The pigs have a black dot on one side of their tiny little bodies and this dot will affect your scoring. Basically, you throw the pigs (much like rolling dice) and the way the pigs land (dot side up, touching each other, on top of each other (my oh my!), etc) corresponds to a score (each with cute little piggy names like pig-out, leaning jowler, trotter, making bacon (very bad!), etc.. Where strategy comes in is the roller of the pigs has to decide whether to keep the score and pass or to keep rolling in an effort to add to the score. The object of the game is to reach the winning score first (usually something like 100). The roller of the pigs can keep rolling until pigging out (which is fairly easy to accomplish) or pass. If you pig out, your score is reset to zero. It's fun stuff!
Customer Review: Let's call a Pig a Pig....
Summary: 5 Stars
On the suface, this little game of Pigs seems very innocuous; Kids of all ages can play, and it's easy to carry, and all the other obvious stuff. What has NOT been mentioned, is that 'Pig' is one of the all-time great DRINKING Games around. And who ever has the game is KING. SO if you are in College, in the Military, or even professionals at their favorit pub, break out a game of PIG and watch the fun begin. The rules are the same for scoring, the [optional, but let's face it, DESIREABLE] drinking part happens when you PIG OUT as opposed to simply Passing the Pigs. When you pass the Pig, you are accepting the points you have scored thus far, and you simply hand the pigs to the next player to roll. No damage done. But if you choose to continue, and Pig out (one of the pigs has a dot showing on the side, and one does not) then you not only ZERO your points, but you empty your GLASS as well. Soon enough, you or your fellow players will be the ones doing the 'leaning Jowlers' Be careful, you don't want to be doing the double trotter to the toilet!
Cheers, Bill
Customer Review: Look Ma, batteries not required
Summary: 3 Stars
I discovered Pass the Pigs more than 20 years ago. Living on a small farm in the backblocks of New South Wales, my circle of friends and I were always seeking games that entertained the whole family, could be played by any number of people and were inexpensive and fun to play. Pass the Pigs met all these conditions. What IS it about this game? Some might call it mindless and trivial and, like most television, perhaps it is, but unlike television, repeat playings never jade - I enjoyed Pass the Pigs in the 80s and the enjoyment has not faded with time. I have only one major gripe. I'm sure that the pigs in my replacement set are smaller than those in my original version. Are the manufacturers sailing so close to the wind that they needed to save that iota of whatever it is they use to make the pigs to appease their accountants? I have given it only one educational star and this has probably downgraded the overall score - don't let it turn you off the game.