Product Description

Winner of the Parents' Choice Gold Award Destination: Fun! Build roads, railroads, and waterways by connecting illustrated cards and see the landscape come to life. Houses, bridges, harbors, towns, and dams. You never know where you'll end up OR where you'll be going next. Match river to river, rail to rail, road to road...and an impressive new transportation network and the charming countryside emerges. Be the first to use up all your cards and you win! Lots of appeal in this award winning game. Play competitively or play cooperatively. Create a new map every time you play the game or find fun in putting pieces together like a puzzle. A fun trip no matter what your age...Youngest beginners love looking at the busy pieces. Advanced players can challenge themselves to connect all the pieces in the most compact shape possible! Ravensburger games go the distance in providing skill practice. This early learning game prompts matching, visual discrimination, vocabulary building, observation, sequencing, and making associations. (Easy to play for non-readers.) A cooperative matching game, perfect for early learning at home or school. Rivers, Roads & Rails Matching card tiles end-to-end, players create a network of rivers, roads & railways A Different Map Results Every Time Endless Variety When Used As A Puzzle A High Quality Ravensburger Game Fabulously Detailed Illustrations Thick, Durable Cardstock Cards, Wipe Clean Surfaces Includes 140 Colorful Cards & Game Rules Players: 1-8 Duration of Game Play: Varies Ages 5+

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2075 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Ravensburger
• Model: MN058-000
• Released on: 2007-05-29
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.48 pounds

Features

• Each tile has two sides
• Each side contains at most one road, one river, and one rail
• Only two of the tiles are branching
• You can play this game competitively like Dominoes, or cooperatively like a free-form jigsaw puzzle
• Great indoor play

Editorial Review
Building roads, railroads, and waterways is the object of this cooperative picture-matching game. The 2-inch square tiles have illustrations of the above printed on one side with some railroad stations and harbors, too. Each player draws 10 tiles and sets about matching river to river, road to road and rail to rail. The first to use up all their tiles wins. But this nonreading game is really about cooperation. The different paths and combinations create so many different possibilities that no two paths are alike. --Lynne Sampson

From the Manufacturer
Let's Play River's Roads and Rails! There are 140 picture tiles that show segments of rivers, roads, and rails. Place all of the picture tiles face down in the box or on the playing surface. Each player draws two picture tiles from the box and puts them face up in front of them. The players then take turns adding their pictures tiles on to an expanding network of rivers, roads, and rails. But there's a catch! Some tiles may have rivers and some may just have roads and rails, so you may not always be able to make a match. If this is the case, then draw another picture tile from the box and wait for your next turn. Once the picture tiles from the box are gone, the first player to get rid of all of their tiles wins. What Do You Learn? Observation skills, Matching, Recognition, Association

Customer Reviews

A game or a puzzle
Excellent for kids of all ages - can be played as a competitive game or a team putting a puzzle together. Our kids loved it growing up and now we are sharing it with our 4 year old grandson - he can already understand how to match and change the puzzle.

Excellent game for adults and kids to play together
My 4 year old son received this game as a Christmas gift, and it's really FUN! It is simple, made of cardboard. It's easy to play for small children, yet involved enough to keep adults interested, too. It has different types of game play as children age or become more proficient at the game. The game is easy, but requires kids to look carefully at the pieces, learn to think strategically, and consider a variety of options as play progresses. It's fun to play for any length of time, which is good for younger kids who don't have a long attention span. My son loves this game, and I have given it to 3 very happy recipients for birthdays since we received it. I definitely intend to purchase more games from this company. I am a former toy buyer and developer, and I really appreciate a great game when I see one!

Entertaining and Educational
This is a game that I truly enjoy playing with my 4-year-old son. It's fun for anyone ages 4 and up who enjoys puzzles. You can play the game as directed by taking turns placing pieces, but you can also work together like you would on a puzzle. My son also has fun putting the pieces together by himself. You need quite a bit of table or floor space and good chunk of time to play the game to completion. Good exercise for everyone's brains!