Mattel Games Apples to Apples Junior, The Game of Crazy Comparisons, Board Game with 504 Cards, Family Party Game Especially for Kids, for Kid, Teen & Family Game Night Ages 9 Years & Older

We made a family summer visit and one evening their 10 year old brought out this game. It was a great ruckus, and we bought it right when we got home. It is probably one of the most versatile, social, "intelligent" games around. It's amazingly simple, and does a great job of creating humorous and good natured competition.Since winning is entirely based on the opinion of the dealer/judge, the game scales perfectly with whoever is playing. Since everything is pretty much in the open, "cheating" doesn't really exist, and it's loads of fun to argue over which word should be the best match. It's also offers insight into how your youngins' think. For example, my 6 year old, acting as a dealer, gave us a card of "Fragile." We played the cards "Brains," "Plates," and "Alaska." Now, I think Alaska was a great answer, but my son picked Plates.There is no mean-spiritedness in the game at all.

As a family that loves Apples to Apples and Cards Against Humanity, we wanted to introduce our younger set (ages 5, 7 and 8) to Apples to Apples as well. This version, though it says 9 and up, is great for kids who are strong readers and like vocabulary. My children are all capable readers and so can each play this game independently, making for really fun family game nights. I like that almost all the cards are accessible (some references to shows they haven't seen, but I allow them to trade those in), and that they learn new vocabulary from the green cards. They also have learned to think about what each judge would like, and it has sparked great conversations as a family (and jokes - since some family members are very predictable in the cards they will choose when they serve as judges!).

My wife and I have had the regular box set for quite a while. Got this as a gift for our son and new family. Great starter to play with the kids. It definitely helps give you some insight into how people/kids think and respond to things. We keep track of cards won, but you don't need to.

My kids recently discovered apples to apples but often didn't know what the words in the original version even referred to. They are 5 and 8 and love to play so I knew this would be a welcome investment.The description words (green cards) are all excellent. The nouns (red cards), on the other hand, I'm slightly disappointed with. I sorted through and ended up taking out 41 of the cards I felt were irrelevant or inappropriate for my family. Most of them were about specific Disney channel characters my kids have no clue about. I'm sure there are plenty of kids who do know the characters. I would simply have preferred those cards switched out for more universal nouns or for historical characters even. That would certainly up the educational factor.Overall, my kids love the game and it's nice to have a word set they understand better.

We played the 12+ version a t a friends house and had to get this for our family. Our youngest is 8 so we went with this junior version.Our 12 year-old daughter (who thinks she is 16) rarely wants to play a board/card game with the family because they are all "boring". Well she reluctantly played this game with us, and now she has actually requested it a few times because she had fun!Basically you draw a card with a feeling or adjective (like "tiny" or "Beautiful") and everyone picks a card from five in their hand and gives it to "the judge" to decide who's card was the best match. Which can be funny when all you have left is "Gorilla" or "Abraham Lincoln" for that hand.It's easy to set-up, easy to play and easy to keep score (you just keep the matching cards).I think this game is most fun with many people, like 6 or more. You need at least 3 to play, and with that, the judge is only choosing from two possible answers. So this is definitely more fun as a party game.

OK. Let me start by saying that I was looking for a family game to play with my husband and 3 kids (ages 13, 11, & 9). Our kids had outgrown the other games we had and I desperately needed one that my 13 year old would play with us. She almost never wants to play family games with us! This game was a HIT from the first round. All of my kids, including my 13 year old, want to play this game over and over again! They kept saying that it is the best game they've ever played. It's easy to set-up, easy to play, and they don't need an adult to play it with them, like some of the other games. I purchased Apples to Apples Junior on another posted recommendation because of my kids' ages. I'm so glad I did! We'll play this for a few years and then when they are older, we'll get the regular version! I highly recommend this game!

Having played Apples to Apples in larger groups with adults, I was super excited to get this to play with the kids (9 & 7). The words are easy enough to understand, plus since their dad forces them to learn the meaning of the word as well before playing a hand (the definitions are printed on the cards), it helps to build vocabulary as well. There are lots of times that you end up playing a card that has no relation to the word in question, but that is what makes it so much fun, especially when the kids try to justify why their card should win when their answer was so off-the-wall. Plus you can play in variations, like Apple Turnover, where the object is to play a card that is the complete opposite of the word in question. Easy after dinner, sit down, enjoy time with the family FUN!