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- Replay Value (1-10): 4
- Fun Factor (1-10): 7
- Worth Buying (1-10): 6
The game comes with a fascinating gadget that looks like a little UFO
with five colored balls (purple, red, yellow, green, blue) in it. By
turning it upside-down, shaking it, and righting it, the balls fall in
four slots, and four of the colors are then assigned to facial features:
head, eyes, nose, and mouth. There are 120 ways the balls can fall, and
not coincidentally, 120 alien faces on the large board. The first player
to find the face with the matching attributes pounces on it with one of
their alien tokens, and scores a point by placing it in their alien
spaceship. The first person to fill up their spaceship (5 points) wins.
The game's target age range is 4 years old and up, and that seems about
right. Fortunately, the game is at least somewhat interesting to an
adult like me too (although probably not for long amounts of repeat play).
I really gravitated to the simplicity of the UFO design, however; I found,
somehow, that shaking it and re-randomizing the colors was a fun
activity in and of itself. And if I can be amused by it for minutes on end,
kids will probably like it even more, right?
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