Scooby-Doo! Haunted House Game
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at
7:25 am
Scooby-Doo! Haunted House Game
Average Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5
- Includes haunted house with booby trap, spinner, movers and stands, instructions
- Move around the 3D haunted house to reach the top
- Secret booby traps are out to get you!
- For 2 to 5 players
- Fun for the whole family
Product Description
Ready for another mystery with Scooby and the gang? In this 3D game, you move around the haunted house and try to reach the top. Secret booby traps are out to get you, like a moving ghost knight, a creaky staircase and a haunted moose head. There are seven traps in all that could keep you from moving ahead. Be the first to overcome the traps, make it to the top and uncover the villain, and you win!… More >>
Scooby-Doo! Haunted House Game
Tagged with: Game • Haunted • House • ScoobyDoo
Filed under: Board Games
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I bought this for my 4-year old son, a die-hard Scooby fan. We had a great time playing the game and is one of his favorites.
The CONS
- assembly instructions may as well be left out of the directions as here’s a toy with a lot of pieces with instructions in one tiny tiny pictures. In any case, not too difficult to figure out using the pictures on the box
- While the mansion itself is fairly sturdy, the pieces not so much. When the ghost on the top is pushed (to release the traps), need to be careful to push slowly or you’ll knock all the pieces off the board.
- Have to dissassemmble the gamne to get it back into the box. This is true of most games but assembly of this one takes a bit longer.
The PROS
- Very cute 3-D game. Traps work well
- Game is fairly straight forward and quick. Nothing worse than getting into a game with a little one that takes too long :)
- Good for little ones learning counting. They can spin the spinner and count the steps.
- Each push of the ghost releases different traps so the kids never know exactly what will happen next
Rating: 4 / 5
Although the Scooby-Doo board game was fun initially, it quickly lost its appeal when we soon realized that the pieces don’t hold together that well at all. The back walls come loose and fall down constantly as do the snake stairs. It’s nearly impossible to get past the snake stairs because almost every time you get on them, you have to press the ghost down and then you fall off them. The snake stairs also come apart from the frame of the game and you have to try to assemble them again. We decided to keep it together all the time instead of disassembling it and putting it back in the box every time we were done with it, but that didn’t prevent us from having to assemble it each time we wanted to play with it and having to assemble it several times during the game as well.
All in all, very poor quality and craftsmanship and just an annoyance to play. The bother far outweighs the educational and entertainment benefits.
Rating: 1 / 5
My son is a huge Scooby fan so he would love it no matter what. My only complaint is that the differences in the clues are kinda of subtle and easily confused. Still we have had a lot of fun with this game.
Rating: 3 / 5
This game was only fun for my family insofar as we laughed and laughed every time another piece fell off. Every time someone had to push the ghost down, one of us would yell, “call the repairman!” Traps almost spring, hinges jam, and players fall off the board (creating amusing family controversy over which player used to be on which space). One of the most fun and entertaining challenges of this game was trying to figure out where the players start, which is not indicated on the board or in the instructions. The game is especially fun for four players, as the instructions state that players may not occupy the same space, and must therefore stack up behind one another in a delightful log-jam configuration. After a rollicking ten minutes of sheer side-splitting frustration, we declared our six-year-old the winner and then selected another game that might tempt us to play it more than once.
Rating: 1 / 5
“No way!” I said, reading all the reveiws. My kids love Scooby; I grew up watching Scooby faithfully every Saturday when it first came out. The game appears ‘like’ a fun, haunted house on the picture, but per critics: it’s small, poor instructions, hard to assemble, falls apart- pieces fall off, etc. The good reviews must be from Scooby-holics worse than me.
I wasn’t going to buy it, waste my money, no way, find something else. So, my wife bought it. Now, we have to put it away because my wife, 2 and 5 year olds, and I are addicted. It’s simple: choose your character, spin the dial, get knocked down or caught in the trap and race up the mansion to uncover the ghoul. You must push the ghost down on a spring mechanism that operates the various obstacles. Mindless but fun.
The flaws: the setup instructions were unclear, but it’s easy to follow the picture on the box- 5 minutes; there’s very little challenge or education to it for young ones except taking your turn and counting, none for adults; our two year old tended to knock the little pieces over- gentle supervision needed; it’s compact and the game pieces can fall off if your not watching but it wasn’t a big deal for us.
It’s a cool, little, 3-D game with lots of silly details, e.g., skeletons, spider webs, lab, cemetary, ‘creepy’ pictures, etc. We’d turn the lights down, use a flashlight, and do our best “Gang” voices as we play. If you like family inclusive board games and love Scooby, I’d recommend this to you. Need a challenge? Look elsewhere.
Rating: 4 / 5