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.
BONUS ENTRIES: I’ll give you one extra entry for each of the following that you do or have done, leave a separate comment for each:
- Follow @MomReviews on Twitter and tweet this: Win the new Connect 4×4 game by Hasbro from @MomReviews. 3 Winners! Enter by 10/7 http://bit.ly/h5LY0 You can do this ONCE PER DAY, leave a separate comment for each.
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WOW! I had no idea there was an updated version of Connect 4! This is an absolute favorite in our house and has been for many years. It would be great to have this new version.
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I LOVE yahtzee!!!! I love family game night as well. It’s a great idea. I’m taking my family out to the gym, but maybe after we will play some games!
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This would be great since our connect 4 is broken
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I know you dont like us to use the same game you used in your write up, but Connect four was my favorite game and thats why i am entering. Hoping to win, so i can play with my daughter!
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My favorite back then was Monopoly an still is today,I love the fact they have added different varities of the game
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We play so many Hasbro games it is hard to choose our favorite. Right now the popular one is Monopoly Town.
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Connect 4 was our favorite! My favorite memories from my childhood is sitting there and playing the game with my mom and sister. We even have photos to prove it!
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main entry: Well mine as a kid many years ago lol was aggravation. I had 2 sisters and my mom & dad loved playing it too and we would play that oh so fun games for hours and i even remember if we lost some of the colored marbles for your color scetion you were responsible for finding some round to fit in the hole that you had to color the same color and once i used moms tiny plastic round fake pearl buttons and colored it with crayons which i recall being yellow for my color lost. Thanks for this great game giveaway my grandson will love it if blessed to win.
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Sorry! was big in our house when I was a kid. I liked it too, but my favorite was Scrabble – but my siblings didn’t like it as much, so I didn’t get to play it as much as Sorry!
Sorry! was my favorite when friends were over. Aggravation was my favorite when my grandma was around. Yahtzee was my favorite when my mom was around. And now Scrabble is my favorite with my husband.
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My sibs and I used to Monopoly-(my sister cheats by the way-we had to bar her from being the banker) I have 5 grandkids would love to win one of these games.
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My favorite Hasbro game has always been Monopoly, I have played different versions of it, but the original is still my favorite. Thanks so much for such a wonderful giveaway!
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Candyland I loved it as a child and now my kids enjoy it.
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classic connect four was always my fave, even if my best friend would cheat and “accidentally” hit the slide on the bottom and dump out the pieces anytime *I* was winning
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bop it for sure. I still have it and still play with it.
bop it for sure. I still own it and still play with it!
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