Educational Insights Freeze Up, Fast Action Pass Around Category Game, 2 Or More Players, Ages 8+

This was fun for my kids. It was easy for them to use. They were able to transport it places. While we were out they enjoyed it and it was durable. It was easy for them to read the directions and understand what to do while playing. The way it looks was appealing to kids where they were curious about what it was. My kids liked to play this and didn't want to put it down. This would be a fun thing for kids in elementary school.

Was looking for an addition to our game arsenal for our family game nights. This is an absolutely wonderful game to play. Love to play on the words and the fact that you can use it with multiple players. The family loved playing this game for what seemed like hours! Would highly recommend adding this for your next game night.

One of those "oldie but a goodie" electronic games

Effortless family fun. We enjoy playing this with our 8 and 10 year old.

To start with, let me say that I play games quite often and own what most people think is a ridiculous number of games. That being said, this game is way too easy for adults. It's a shame, because I like the concept.Decide on the number of teams first (we did 2, even though there were 8 of us, because it would have taken all night otherwise). Each team gets 60 seconds separately and time deducts each round until you run out. So for example if I was on my own team, I'd have 60 sec. to come up with the first word. I hit stop once I say the word, and pass it to the next person. That person has 60 sec. to come up with their first word. They hit stop and pass it back to me. I now have 57 sec. to come up with the next word, since it took me 3 sec. to come up with the first word. The second person has 58 sec. because it took them 2 sec. to come up with their first word. And so it goes, back and forth, subtracting time for each separate team based on how long it took them to come up with a word on their turn. You can play with up to 8 players.We did this in 2 teams of 4, because otherwise it's too long (in our opinion). So I had the first word, then team 2 went, then someone on my team went, then another person on team 2, etc.Positives:I like the individual times per team.I like the large number of teams you can have if you so choose (and if you do it the way we did, the number of people who are able to play is endless).I really like the concept: here's a category and here's letter: come up with a word that fits the category and starts with the given letter (ex: movie star, letter L).I like that you can hit "new category" or "new letter" if you are stuck, but it subtracts 3 seconds from your time. This gives you a chance if you're stuck so you don't completely run out of time on one impossible word, but keeps people from skipping to something easy.Problems:It's just too easy. 90% of the time, we took 1 (yes, 1) to 4 seconds to come up with a word (actually, less than 1 second often, because we'd come up with a word before the time even started counting down; this messed us up in the beginning, because we'd hit stop but the time would keep going because we hit it before the time started counting down and we didn't realize it at first).However, since it's random, you can get an impossible combination (ex: a horned animal, letter J). (Maybe one exists, but if so, it's way too obscure for this game.)Also, TOO SLOW between players. Between every single player, it says which player is up, but not just "player 2": more like, "Player 2, you're next!" in slow, dramatic fashion. Plus it tells you how much time you have left (which is good, but speed it up!). It was driving us all crazy.This is a much better game for younger kids (I played with my 6th graders and it was harder for them, but mostly not too hard).I'm going to keep it to play with my class, because it's good for that age, but don't think I'll be playing it with adults again any time soon.

Once we received it, my daughters and I (ages 10 and 13) played this for a while! It's easy to use and fun! Def recommend!

Got it for 9yr old girl’s birthday, she loved it! Mom said she & her 11yr old sister “played & played & played it”. I bought extra batteries for it but was happy it worked right out of the box!

I was very disappointed in this game. There was something inside that you could hear, but I thought it was unimportant. On Christmas we put the batteries in it and it froze up all right... it would not work at all. I decided that if it broke that easily, I didn't even want to get a replacement. It was quite disappointing to have that happen when grandchildren open a gift.