Hasbro Family Game Night and Connect 4 Giveaway

September 23, 2009 By Elizabeth

What are you doing tonight? How would you like to join Hasbro in a Family Game Night? Hasbro is encouraging families to turn off the TV tonight and gather the family to play classic and updated versions of their popular games like Connect 4, Boggle, Monopoly, Clue, and Candy Land.

At BlogHer this past summer, I was invited to a cocktail reception hosted by MomCentral and Hasbro. We got a peek at some of their new card games and then got a sheet to fill out with our choices of games we would be interested in reviewing. I never expected to get a huge box delivered with ALL of the games I picked inside! To help you pick games that you’d like to play with your family, here’s what we received and what I think:

Monopoly City is a whole new twist on the classic Monopoly game. Instead of buying streets to put houses and hotels on, you buy districts and build residential building, industrial buildings, stadiums, and skyscrapers. In addition to charging people rent for landing on a property you own, you can also sell them a mortgage, or hold an auction for an unowned property. The Free Parking and Go to Jail spaces are still included

Boggle is now available in a new compact version with a built-in timer. You twist the base to make room to shake the letter cubes, then twist it back up and a timer automatically starts. There’s a scoring system with points you can award for words with a certain number of letters, or you can just play like we do, which is just to see how many words we can make.

Connect 4X4 is a totally cool new way to play the classic Connect 4 game. Instead of just one vertical grid with slots for the checkers, Connect 4×4 has TWO grids, and instead of red and black checkers, it has four colors of rings and pieces called blockers. Up to 4 people can play, and while the goal is still to get 4 in a row, here’s the twist – the 4 in a row can be in either grid. To win the game, play four-in-a-row in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line on either side of the grid, or by weaving through one side of the grid to the other. The blockers are like two checkers stuck together, and they block both grids at once! Once you get the hang of it, it’s so fun to play. Kaitlyn actually picked up the game and carried it into her room, where she spends time just taking the rings out and dropping them back in – sorted by color.

Clue Secrets & Spies takes players into the shadowy world of Secret Agents. Agent Black is Clue’s most notorious spy, and the goal of the game is to go undercover as an international agent to foil his schemes by completing missions and attending secret meetings. Players scan meeting cards with an included ultraviolet spy light to learn the names of a secret contact, or have messages texted to their cell phones, but there’s a catch! Those texts could either help, or be a trap. It’s like no game of Clue I’ve ever played!

Candy Land Sweet Celebration Game is a sweet twist on the classic game that lets you control the length of the game, build and customize your own path, and collect treats as you play. It comes with both blue and red plastic molded pieces that you use to create each stop in the game, and instead of a fixed board, there are punch-out paths that can be rearranged as you like. The new areas in the game are Ice Cream Harbor with ice cream tokens to collect, Snow Flake Lake with gingerbread men, Chocoslovakia with chocolate cake, and Lollipop Park with lollipops. We haven’t had a chance to sit down and really play it yet, and I predict Kaitlyn will love all the adorable little cards and characters!

BUY IT: If you want the games for tonight, I’d suggest stopping at Walmart, Kmart or Target or any other superstore that carries games. I saw several of them at Target a few days ago. Approximate retail price of each game is $14.99 to $19.99. Visit the Family Game Night by Hasbro site to learn how to host your own Family Game Night and to see all the terrific games that Hasbro has.

WIN IT: I have three Connect 4×4 games to give away thanks to Hasbro! To enter, leave a comment telling me the name of your favorite Habro game to play now or when you were a kid – click this link to see the complete list of Hasbro brand games. Open to U.S. only, enter by October 7th at 12:00 PM EST. I’ll pick three comments at random to receive Connect 4×4.

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