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User Submitted Scrabble: Junior Edition Reviews (cont...)Date: 2005-12-28 Depends on age I first played Junior Scrabble when I was four years old. I learned to read at a very early age (2 years and nine months), and so I always played the more difficult side. I remember it being challenging enough and entertaining enough to keep me interested, but also easy enough so that I wouldn't give up. I would recommend this toy to 4-6 year olds. Date: 2005-10-16 Great game, could have used a few minor improvments We just bought this for our learning to read 5 year old son. We are very pleased with the concept of this game. We choose this over the Disney version JUST to haelp identifiy real words over the names of Disney characters. I am a HUGE Scrabble fan and seemed apprehensive as we opened the game, comparing it too much to what I am use to playing with another adult. The rules were VERY well thought out for a Jr version. WE have only played the easy side. I love games that will challenge my child, And so does he. I will gladly play a game over and over with him that challenges him & makes him think, OVer a sugary sweet way too easy for them to win game. I did "help" my son win :) just to help him "see" the rules in action. THINGS I was not overly pleased with are really a minor annoyance when compared to the educational value of the game. I do not like the cardboard tiles. :( I wish game makers would STOP making them in general!! It would have been nice to have a tile bag. otherwise you are just asking to loose letters. ALL of which are needed to play the easy side. While not needed for the young version, I do wish they also incuded tile holders. Just helps active youngsters keep track of letters :). Date: 2005-08-02 Cardboard Letter Tiles I bought this for our friend's daughter for Christmas. The game is fun to play but I don't understand why they made this game with cardboard letter tiles instead of regular Scrabble tiles. Date: 2005-03-19 Don't bother - get the real thing. Scrabble Jr. uses cheap materials for a not-all-that-cheap price. It simplifies the scoring, but that removes the reward for using the harder letters... and if you really want to do a 1-point-per-letter scoring system with no bonus spaces on the board, it would be easy enough to implement that with a regular set. The board is smaller, so it actually makes the game harder as you go along, because you run out of space at the edges to make the words you'd like to. The basic skill of constructing words isn't any easier with this game than with an adult set, and I think the simplified scoring takes a lot of the fun out of the game. I'm getting a Scrabble Deluxe set to use with my 6 and 9 year old kids - they'll need some help, but no more so than with Scrabble Jr. and it will be a more satisfying and more durable game. Another great alternative is UpWords. This is a MUCH better pre-Scrabble game than Scrabble Jr. It rewards cleverness over knowledge of obscure words, and therefore helps to level the playing field among players of varying-sized vocabularies. Upwords Date: 2004-11-12 Excellent My daughter received this game as a gift. We Love It. She wants to play it all the time. It is a great spelling game. She is 6 years old and just started to read and loves to spell. Excellent Game
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