Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? (Board Game) Review

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(More customer reviews)A friend of my daughter's gave this game to her for her birthday recently. Since then, the entire family has been playing it several times a week. It is a great combo of solving mysteries while learning A LOT about the U.S.A. My husband and I were pretty shocked about how many state capitals we weren't sure about until we played this game! Now, the whole family knows all of our capitals inside and out and its all thanks to this game. Each time the mystery is different, which makes the game really fun each time and you get to move your good guy (Carmen) or a bad guy(a henchman) to make things really fun and different. I highy reccommend this game--especially if you want to teach your kids AND YOURSELF about basic Geography of the U.S.A. Every American should know ALL of their capitals. If you don't, try playing this and have fun while you are learning them!

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Carmen drove through three states in a row that start with the same letter.What letter do these states start with?Carmen Sandiego and her gang of henchmen are headed for the U.S.A.!Landmarks from around the nation have vanished.Can you picture Arizona without the Grand Canyon?Your assignment is to scout out the scenes of the crimes and locate the Warrant, the Loot, and the Henchmen.Be careful!When you guess incorrectly, a Henchman escapes!National Parenting Publications Awards.

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Carmen Sandiego USA Junior Edition (Board Game) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this for my 4 1/2 year old son this summer because he was (and remains) obsessed with geography in general and the 50 states in particular. He loves it. The rest of us, however, don't. The instructions are inadequate and the purpose of the game is just too basic. By the way, the instructions do tell you where to begin--in the state where you live or where you are currently playing the game. My son lives for the day when we will take the game to another state so he can start in a different state. But the instructions do not say anything about how you are supposed to get to Hawaii and Alaska. And the fact that some of the states are combined into groupings has been a little confusing for my son. I think if the company had designed the board better, with less space wasted on the picture of Carmen SanDiego, the map could have been larger thus negating the necessity of combining smaller states. Anyway. We have logged a lot of hours on this game over the past few months. We've changed the rules to make it more interesting, but even so, it gets rather boring. I would give the game 1 star, but I can't discount the fact that my son does love it so much.

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Missing:The Gateway Arch from St. Louis, Wisconsin's cheese, salmon from Alaska!Carmen Sandiego and her henchmen have stolen famous landmarks and national treasures from America's cities and states.Help ACME CrimeNet find America's jewels and return them to their rightful homes.Players learn the lay of the land as they move across the United States returning landmarks to their rightful state, searching for Carmen as they go!

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