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RAT-A-TAT-CAT | 
 enlarge | Brand: Gamewright Rat - A - Tat - Cat
Category: Toy
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $5.57
You Save: $4.42 (44%)
New (30) from $5.57
Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 1537
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 6 - 12 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4.8 x 1.5
family game,
group game
fun party game
MPN: 204
Model: 204
UPC: 759751002046
EAN: 0759751002046
ASIN: B00000GBQJ
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Children's card game that helps develop timing and basic mathematical concepts | | • | Teaches strategy, memory building, and addition | | • | Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Best Toy Award; Mensa 1996 Best New Mind Game Award | | • | Includes 54 rat, cat, and power cards | | • | For 2 to 6 players |
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Product Description
As children play Rat-a-tat Cat, they develop a sense of timing and an understanding of basic, but essential, mathematical concepts. They learn ways to remember their cards and strategies to figure out what cards other players might have. They also begin to develop an intuitive sense of probability. Rat-a-tat Cat requires skill, strategy, and awareness, challenging both young children and adults. A game of suspense, strategy, and anticipation. Get rid of the high cards (rats) and go for the low cards (cats). Sneak a peek, draw two, or swap cards for an added twist. Low score wins the game. (A poker face helps!) Awards: * Mensa Select * National Parenting Publications (NAPPA) Honors * Games Magazine Top 100 Game * Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) * Canadian Toy Testing Council "Childrens Choice" Award * Dr. Toy's Best Classic Toys
Amazon.com
It's never too early to develop a good poker face. With Rat-a-Tat Cat, a poker face is just one of the skills players need to perfect. As in poker, luck, skill, strategy, and intuition each play a part. Players are dealt four cards, which are kept face- down, except for a quick peek at two of them. Each player in turn pulls a card from the draw pile to replace one of the four. Memory is important, as the object is to end with the lowest score, and players must keep track of the values on their four cards. "Peek," "Swap," and "Draw Two" Power cards turn up occasionally, allowing players to maneuver and strategize further. Delightfully witty pictures of cats (the good guys--low points) and rats (bad guys--high points) illustrate each of the 54 cards. Young card sharks will develop a sense of timing and greater ease with numbers, and can begin to grasp the concept of probability. Winner of Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Best Toy Award and the 1996 Mensa Best New Mind Game. For 2 to 6 players. --Emilie Coulter
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
Fun and great math tool December 3, 2008
Picked this game up at our local Kroger as a last minute stocking stuffer, and it turned out to be one of the favorite gifts of our 6 year old. We play even along with our 4 year old -- lots of fun and the rounds go quickly, so the attention doesn't wear out. We bring it on camping trips, too!
buy this game!!!! November 7, 2008
Our whole family loves this game. We have played it so many times the cards are wearing out. ONe great thing is that if your child hasn't won in several rounds it is very easy to play poorly and let them win - without cheating. Age of happy players - 34, 34, 14, 5. Also a 3 year old who likes certain cards when they are drawn by the players - the PEEK cheetah particularly! Buy this game!!!
Teaching my 5 year old how to add! October 29, 2008
Rat-a-Tat-Cat is one of our favorite games. My 5 yr old daughter can't get enough...we play several games of this every evening! We have her add all the cards for each player and she can add some by sight now without counting out on her fingers. We absolutely love this game and it's easy to play, even for kindergartners. Parents beware....kids have a knack for remembering where the good cards are and they will beat you...over and over.
The cat's meow of card games for kids! April 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not too long ago my "quality time" with my two young boys hit a crisis when they both decided that they were sick of all the game we had on the game shelf, so I desperately went out and bought this card game based on a recommendation from a person who works at a toy store.
Well, my five year old loves this game, and we've played it almost every day since I bought it. He's beat me several times too!
This is really a simple card trading game based on trading higher numbered card for lower numbered cards. In fact, a conventional deck of playing cards could be adapted to playing this game at a very basic level, but the addition of special "power cards" adds fun and randomness to the game play, and there is a memory building angle as well, so you really get everything a game should be in one package: strategy, random luck of the draw, and a bit of genuine gambling. Then there's the entertainment value of the really cool rat and cat cartoons on the cards.
So, if you are at the end of your rope for game night with the kids, spend a few bucks and try this one. It looks like it's going to have nine lives in my family.
Fun Family Game March 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was one of the first Gamewright games we purchased and it is a winner. Kids, parents, grandparents, even great, great grandma wanted to join in (we caught her "peeking" a couple of times when she shouldn't have, but hey ...). I remember playing a similar game with just your basic deck of face cards (we called it "No Peeking") but Gamewright's "peek" and "swipe" (the "draw2 is ok) are a great addition. My kids complain there are too many NINES in the deck. Lots of luck, but it does require memory and logic.
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