Green Eggs and Ham Game

Pros: Teaches reading, rhyming and counting.
Cons: It is boring and confusing.

Pros: encourage reading skills, rhyming, counting and decision making
Cons: complicated, confusing, hard for children to understand

Who’s child doesn’t like the book Green Eggs and Ham? My children love it and when I saw the game on the shelf a few Christmas’s back, I picked it up. I guess I should have done my research on this one before purchasing.

The game is...

Pros: Looks Nice on the Game Shelf
Cons: Gathers Dust on the Game Shelf

Based on the popular Dr. Suess book, the Green Eggs and Ham Game claims to be a "beginner game" designed for parents and children (4+) to play together. This was another one of those ill-fated impulse buys for which I am becoming quite...

Pros: Helps develop memory, counting and reading skills.
Cons: Maybe a little too easy?

I found this game in a thrift (secondhand) store the other day. I like Dr. Seuss (see my book review) and so do my 6 and 4 year old daughters. So I picked it up for only $2.00.

Contrary to most opinions about this game, I thought it was a...

Pros: cute rhyming words
Cons: boring, not what people expect from the name,

The game is simple (yea, right). When a player lands on a picture space he/she turns over a card and announces that card to other players. If the picture card matches OR rhymes with the space your on you keep it. If you land on a plain Green space...

Pros: it's a Dr. Seuss game
Cons: vert difficult to understand

I purchased this game for my son, he loves Dr. seuss stories, especially Green Eggs and Ham.I thought this game was going to be like his books. Easy to follow and some fun with silly words. Boy, was I wrong. I couldn't even figure out how the game was to...

Pros: Emphasizes pre-reading skills such as memory and rhyming.
Cons: Really difficult and long winded ending. With a little adaptation it is workable.

The Green Eggs and Ham game is the 2nd Dr. Seuss game that we purchased. It consists of a board, 4 Sam I Am pawns, a spinner and picture cards.

To set up the game you spread the picture cards out randomly face down in the center of the board....

Pros: imaginative (?)
Cons: confusing

Should we expect anything but Bizarre from a Dr. Seuss game? Green Eggs and Ham is quite confusing at best. When you land on a goat, you take off your coat, smile and gloat, go sail a boat and skip your next turn. Land on a car, you'll go far, reach...