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ThinkFun Smart Mouth
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List Price: $16.99
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Manufacturer: ThinkFun
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Amazon Maximum Age: 99
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 99
Amazon Minimum Age: 96
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Toy
Brand: Think Fun
EAN: 0019275055301
Feature: Team or individual play
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: ThinkFun
Manufacturer: ThinkFun
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 96
Model: 5530
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ThinkFun
Release Date: 2006-01-01
Studio: ThinkFun
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Features
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Team or individual play
Thirty-six starting letter tiles
Thirty-six ending letter tiles
Letter getter
For ages 8 years and above
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Editorial Reviews:
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The onlygame you won't get your mouth washed out with soap for having a Smart Mouth! Go head to head with family and friends in this quick-thinking, shout it out word game. Just slide our clever Letter Getter forward then back to reveal two letter tiles. Using those two letters, you must create a word of five or more letters, beginning with the first letter tile, and ending with the second. Whoever shouts out a word first wins the tiles. When all the tiles are used up, the player with the most tiles at the end wins!
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Family Game
Comment: My whole family enjoys this simple vocabulary game. The set up is very similar to Zingo, except instead of the handle sliding forward and releasing two bingo chips, it releases two letters.
Players need to think of a word that begins with the first letter and ends with the second. We require 4 letters from our kids, and 5 or more adults. You can bend the rules even more for an early reader and allow them to call out 3 letter words. The first person to shout out their word takes the letters, and at the end of the game, the player with the most chips wins.
You may think that the adults always win, but that is not the case! My youngest has a photographic memory and he gives us all a run for our money. And adults can sometimes just blank on a word while the kids have one on the tip of their tongue. The result is that everyone plays feeling like they have a decent shot at winning.
My husband likes this game because it is pretty quick, we can play a round in less than 10 minutes. My youngest really likes sorting the chips and putting them in the handle, and sliding it forward to release the letters. The middle kids like the challenge of trying to come up with words first, and I like the fact the whole family plays it together!
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Summary: Good idea, but too hard
Comment: This is a great idea for a game, but even when playing with just adults it can sometimes be very hard and frustrating. But it does work your brain and can be interesting.
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Summary: Good brain strain motivator
Comment: Have been using this game as a kinesthetic approach to vocabulary study/enhancement. Very good brain stimulation. May be difficult for some students, however, for any possibility of dual beginning letters(sounds)and/or endings may appear. Yet once students get the hang of the game (which happens rather quickly), it is quite a learning tool. There are few parts, no multiple stimulating/distracting items (such as timers, dice, or beepers) so participants can learn to focus on the objective only. Great for a middle school or high school class.
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Summary: Awesome Game for all Ages!
Comment: As a facilitator of the gifted students in our district, I try to find activities I can use with kids from grades 3-9. That can be hard to do. Smart Mouth was a hit with kids in all the elementary schools as well as the middle schools. The linguistics problem solving was awesome, and I was impressed with some of the words the students came up with when I thought it was going to be impossible.
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Summary: My 7 y.o. loves it
Comment: I bought this for my 7 y.o., whose spelling skills lag her math/logic skills. I was looking for fun ways to practice spelling. She finds the game fun, and enjoys the challenge of the hard letter combinations that come up (though we added our own rule that we can "pass" if we both agree). I believe it does help reinforce spelling skills. However, the letter dispenser sometimes sticks, which is annoying. Tip: make sure you separate the letter tiles really carefully before you stack them--if they are stuck together, they will jam.
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