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USAopoly Nintendo Super Mario Yahtzee - more review | 
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| Brand: USAopoly
Category: Toy
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $13.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1263
Age: 8 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 13 x 10.4
MPN: YZ005-191
Model: YZ005191
UPC: 700304044037
EAN: 0700304044037
ASIN: B003BMGU2G
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | First and only Super Mario Yahtzee dice game | | • | 5 Custom dice with power ups in place of the pips | | • | Custom ?? Block? dice cup (with lid to hold game components) for on-the-go fun |
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Product Description
It's America's all-time #1 dice game with a Super Mario twist. Shake the dice in the custom ? Block dice cup and watch the Super Mario icons fly. Will you roll a Large Straight with Coin, Red Mushroom, Fire Flower, Yoshi Egg and Star? Or will you roll five Green Shells? That's Yahtzee with a Super Mario twist. Game comes complete with a custom ? Block dice cup, 5 custom dice, score pad, rules and pencil.For 1 or more players, ages 8 and up.Packaged in a travel-sized cup that fits all components - perfect for trips to Mushroom Castle!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great fun! August 27, 2010
Sarah!
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The whole game stores in the little ? yellow box. Really good and so fun to play. Go this for my fiance for his birthday and I think I like playing it more than him.
 Better as eye candy than user friendly July 2, 2010
S. Lipson
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
This gets great marks for cuteness and appeal, however it falls short when played with. The yellow box is unnecessarily large and thus cumbersome to handle, especially for kids who are going to be most interested in playing with it. The lid simply rests on top, it does not fit on so it takes two hands to hold the lid onto the box while shaking for a roll. We very quickly stopped using the lid during play, but then it was hard for the kids' hands to cover the large box opening on top. With or without the lid on, shaking the dice in the box is uncomfortably loud and shrill. Even my kids winced and complained. The box is made of a hard shiney plastic. Older Yahtzee cups are made of a plastic that is somewhat more pilable which helped to muffle the rattle of the dice. We stuffed paper towels in the bottom of the box to try to deaden the racket, but it helped only a little bit. You also have to find some type of box to roll the dice into because the packaging of this item does not lend itself to being used for such. The score pad is quite small (with very small print too) and each sheet has to be torn off and unfolded to write on it. It is so small because it is intended for you to curve the whole folded pad in a semicircle to stuff it into the box for storage. So, not only are your score sheets folded in half, but they are also curly. The block will only fit one of those useless "mini golf" type short pencils. I guess you better have your pocket knife handy or a sharpener to chisel a pencil tip in case of breakage! As I said, this is a very cute item, but even my 9 and 10 year old Mario loving boys totally prefer to use the zip case travel Yahtzee version. That version has a built in dice arena, padded small easy to handle shaker cup and nifty little independent dice cube holders. There is also a sleeve to hold a nice big flat Yahtzee pad and full size retractable pencil. The zip close feature is perfect to keep all the parts at the ready for grab and go convienence.
Great for collectors August 24, 2010
YC (Houston, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well if you are a Super Mario collector and don't plan to actually play with this -this is a great item.
If however, you simply have a Super Mario fan in the house and really want to play Yahtzee with it I have some suggestions. First off, I have to give it some credit - it is very cute and the pictures made it easy and interesting for my 5 year old to play Yahtzee on his own (without being on a team with mom or dad).
IF you decide to actually play with it, two recommendations:
1) First thing you MUST do before using the dice is coat them with clear nail polish or something similar. We used the set about 3-5 times a week (popular game in our house) for less than a month and pretty much the entire picture wore off every side of every dice. I called the company about the problem and to their credit, they did send me a new set right away (which I coated before we played again - no problems since).
2) As the other reviewer stated, the score sheets are so small that they are almost unreadable. I simply put one on my printer and enlarged it by 100% and made a bunch of copies.
Good luck and enjoy!
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