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Barrel of Monkeys
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| Price: | $6.83 |
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Product Description
What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys' Well, actually nothing! Children will have hours of fun with Milton Bradley's Barrel of Monkeys! For 1 or more players.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #14966 in Toys & Games
- Brand: Milton Bradley
- Dimensions: 4.75" h x 3.00" w x 3.00" l, .5 pounds
Customer Reviews
Monkey Monkey Monkey!
The "Barrel of Monkeys" game may be one of the easiest, simplest games ever to be marketed. It consists of a plastic barrel about the size of a grapefruit filled with little plastic monkeys, arms extended and bent. (You've seen them, either in Toy Story, 12 Monkeys, or in your genetic memory. These things have been around forever.) The goal of the game is to pick up a string of monkeys by holding the top one and looping arms together. It's about as complicated as pick-up sticks, and more fun -- after all, it's monkey-based.
The fun of Barrel of Monkeys isn't the game. It's the score of plastic monkeys. Monkeys are inherently funny, plastic loop-armed monkeys even moreso. Consider the price, too: a couple dollars for a whole barrel of monkeys. How can you /not/ afford to buy it?
WORTH $3 to $5
My six year old got a Barrel of Monkeys for Christmas. After dumping them on the table and trying to hook them, we both found it a bit difficult and frustrating and put it aside. And then I recalled similar feelings from my childhood. After reflecting on this, I decided, instead, not to dump them on a hard surface, but to hook them from inside the barrel. This is more fun and the ability to hook more than a very few becomes attainable. My six year old is now having a great time with the monkeys and has been able to hook seven at a time. If you're frustrated or bored--try hooking them from inside the barrel--still challenging (especially the last one!) and much more fun.
More fun than a barrel of monkeys!
Although the quality of the monkeys has diminished since I was a kid, today's monkeys are much fun for my boys as they were for me.
We have accumulated many sets over the past few years, (thanks to donkey kong and the barrell thing). My boys are forever linking them from everything in our house that they can imagine. I often find long chains of monkeys hanging around the house in various creative places!
Monkeys are great and they are worth buying a few for the imaginative and creative play that they inspire.
