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This is a gorgeous and sturdy wooden organizer for the board game Betrayal at House on the Hill. I am giving it 4 stars due to an error in the instructions and to the fact that the tokens tend to fall out of the small holders as the open spaces that let you reach in to pull them out are not quite narrow enough to contain them. TOOLS YOU WILL REALLY NEED You'll definitely want to use wood glue on these. But as the edges you will be gluing are small, a paintbrush with a fairly narrow tip will prove really useful. Have a cup of water standing by to put the brush in in-between pieces. It helps to have a paper palette of some type to put a glop of glue on. You can use it several times before it gets too dry and you need to use a separate glop. It may be helpful to have a second brush standing by to wipe off excess glue. If you have long nails, you can also just use a paper towel, which it helps to have nearby in any case to wipe glue off your paintbrush (or q-tips). You don't really need a mallet. If you have one, great, if not, you can apply pressure with your hands, as needed. The kit comes with sandpaper and rubber bands. The instructions say to use a utility knife on the smaller pieces, but except for some of the tighter ones on the last sheet, I didn't find I needed one (and, in fact, the knife just chipped off the outside of the wood). Instead, just keep rotating the pieces back and forth and the small bits that attach the pieces to the wood sheet will give. MISTAKE IN THE INSTRUCTIONS In the instructions for assembling Token Tray #1, steps 4 and 5 are listed backwards. Trying to glue the little end pieces before the larger pieces that go at the ends will result in a great deal of frustration. Otherwise, the instructions are pretty clear. Make sure you assemble each of the pieces in order so that you don't (ahem) accidentally switch the triangle and square token tray end pieces. (Fortunately, they are exactly the same size so if you do what I did, it's not that big a deal. The pieces just won't match the box lid, but the symbols aren't that meaningful, anywy. They just help you remember which tokens are supposed to go in which tray). FINAL THOUGHTS It's a little weird that an organizer is just coming out now for a game that is almost a decade old but it's a classic for a reason. This organizer is a very nice piece of engineering that is quite beautiful and relatively easy to assemble.

The product is really good! But you have to know, it can be use only for 2 or 4 player. I really like it, each piece of the game is very detailed! Buy it and have fun :)

I handed the box to my 10 year old and tasked her with teaching her two younger siblings (ages 8 & 7) and I to play. It went great. She only had a little bit of confusion in what to do when doubles are rolled (p. 6) of the instructions, but I think we got that figured out (hand out the appropriate treat tokens from the roll the doubles were in and then roll again and hand out new treat tokens if there are any). I loved how the addition/subtraction was a step up from most elementary +/- games. This one had problems like 78-14 or 81-23. My 10 year old is a whiz at math, so she did well. Her younger two siblings also did well, but took more time and it was more of a challenge. It also encouraged them to do some harder mental math than they are used to. I also thought it was quite ingenious how you could check your answers with the holes on the cards. The insert with facts on arctic animals was a nice addition. The box is very sturdy. I do feel it could have been made slightly shorter to save shelf space.

We play as a family. It's like going back to childhood with Scooby Doo. I advise everyone!