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User Submitted Take Off! Game ReviewsDate: 2008-06-02 Great geography game Take Off! is an extremely unique board game: you take any number of airplane tokens from one to around four, and race through the world and try to make it to the end (actually back to the beginning on the other side of the board) by using cool eight-sided dice. While the game is fun, it is also a valuable learning tool. When I was younger, this game really helped me to learn my geography, all while having a ton of fun. It was unconscious learning, which, in some cases, is the most effective type. You roll two eight-sided dice to begin. Six sides have colors; the seventh side has a "wild" sign (an airplane), which lets you go on whichever color you want; and the eighth side says "Take Off!", which prompts you to pick up a special, fact-filled card that will tell you about a certain place, which you will move your airplane token to. The board is filled with colored lines which will take from one city to another across the entire globe. (The board itself is a flat, well-designed map.) You travel along these colored lines by rolling specific colors or the "wild" sign on the dice. For example, if you roll a purple and a green on your dice, you must go on one purple line and one green line, or vice versa. Of course, cards often move you drastically, so you never know what the roll of a die may bring.... Take Off! is a great game. While traveling across the world map, kids (or anyone else, for that matter) will learn all about where certain cities are, facts on cards about certain areas, and many other valuable pieces of information, all while having fun. School meets play with this wonderful, ingenious game. A recommended purchase. Date: 2008-04-04 World Travel on the Kitchen Table Our family has owned this game for years. We have a couple of different ways to play it, depending on the age of the kids playing. You can play a simplified version of it with kids as young as 4 or 5 - all they need to do is move their planes on the colored lines, sort of a cooler version of Candyland. I'm homeschooling my 7th grader this year and he pulled it out today and asked if we could play. It took us about an hour (2 people - 4 planes each)to play it - reading the cards to learn more about world geography - and laughing at each other when we totally mispronounced foreign names. A great (and painless) way to teach and learn geography. Even though we love this game, it does have a few drawbacks. The planes are pretty lightweight, so they are apt to shift if someone bumps the "board". The dice are 8 sided, with colors on 6 sides. All of my boys are red/green color deficient to some degree, and the red and orange are difficult for them to distinguish. Not really a fault of the game. The dice being 8 sided makes them a little more likely to keep on rolling across the table - we just toss the dice into a flat container like a pie pan or flat bottomed bowl. All in all, a great game. Date: 2007-09-10 Fantastic fun! It isn't often that a board game can appeal to all ages in a family. But this one does. I bought it for my eight year old boy. But my two college aged kids don't mind playing this game with him. I disagree with the previous reviewer because I thought it was very well made. It has a laminated plastic board that has weathered many, many games and still looks as beautiful as when we opened the box. The little airplanes are just the right size that they don't get left on the carpet when we clean up the game afterward. And the cards are easy to read with tons of information about each country. We have ALL learned so much because of this game. And I know that my son can now find any country in the world. He can even tell you which hemisphere it's in! How many other kids can say that? Geography is a subject that gets discussed less and less in public school. So I say, bring on the games! Let's learn about this big old world we live in. Date: 2007-08-26 Take off game Description sounded really cool. My kids did not like playing it. Said it was too complicated moving the airplanes around, cheaply made. It was just okay.
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