HABA Monza – Automobile Racing Video games & Newbie’s Board Recreation, Partaking Household Video games for Children and Adults Ages 5+ (Made in Germany)

A quality young children’s board game
This is a fun board game to play with your 3 to 6 year old children that will exercise their mind a little as well. Older siblings and parents in the family will enjoy playing the game with them.Players roll 6 dice with faces of different colors. They use these colors to move forward on the colored race track. The track has three lanes with colored spaces on them. Players have to figure out how to use their 6 dice colors to move ahead on the track, switching lanes back and forth as needed. The track has spaces with wrecked tires on them which have to navigated around along the way. Players can land on each other’s cars and push them back a space. There are tire wreck spaces on the track which need to be navigated around. The first person across the finish line might be the winner. I say “might” because the rules say that each of the other players get one more roll after the first player to cross the finish line. If another player can cross the finish line with less moves than the first person used then they can win instead.Both my children, 5 and 8, enjoy playing this game together. I enjoy playing it with them as well.The pieces are nice and sturdy wooden race cars and dice. The pieces will definitely stand up to classroom use. The board is nice thick cardboard. The game is very colorful, attractive, and cute. As you can see in the video, the whole game is smaller than board games usually are. This is very nice because it takes up less space on a shelf.This is a great game to practice colors with young children. Figuring out which order to use the rolled dice takes a nice amount of forward thinking strategy on the part of the children as well. If they choose a less than optimal order they won’t move as far. It is a much superior color matching game to the old standard Candy Land due to the fact that Candy Land has no strategic thought in its gameplay. I’d definitely recommend this game to my fellow educators and parents over that one .

My favorite first board game for young kids!
I bought this game to play with my 4 year old soon to be 5 and seeing if I could introduce my 3 year old to it as well…My 3 year old might not be ready yet 🙂 He is too much of and walking tornado still…With my 4-5 year old this game has been great, it teaches her patience, turns and the basics of board gaming. Apart from that this game has mathematical logic in its foundation. If you do follow the full thought process of determining the optimal colors to pick on your path for each play it really teaches a young mind logical thinking, space analysis and observation. This is why I love it the most. This was initially difficult for my kid to comprehend, but she is getting the hold of path testing before making her move and organizing her color dice strategically to see which ones to use first in a play with the intention of gaining more distance or even taking a spot.. its great.. lots of elements for kids to learn from! and its just a beautifully done game. Great first board game to share with your kids!

Enjoyable Children’s Racing Game
I purchased Monza as a boardgame to play with my 6 year old that wasn’t Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, etc. It is simple to learn and requires more thinking than the traditional role and move children’s games. My son thoroughly enjoys playing it. He keeps on bringing it out and requests to play it with me. As is the HABA standard, the production quality is excellent with wooden pieces and a sturdy playing board that will stand up to repeated play. Game is not perfect (ok, it is a kids game I don’t expect awesome perfection). It is heavily luck dependent (but what kids game of this type isn’t) rolling six dice and there are a few spots on the board where you can only move forward if you roll one color. If you don’t roll the needed color you’re stuck. Once is annoying. A couple of turns in a row and it gets a bit aggravating. But, it is nowhere near as fun killing as in Sorry! or Aggravation where you can go turn after turn after turn unsuccessfully drawing cards or rolling dice needed to move a piece into play. Overall I am very happy with Monza and recommend it as a race themed children’s game.I purchased my copy from River Runners (Amazon Marketplace) and am very happy with them. Good price, Prime eligible, fast service/delivery.

Our grandchildren, aged almost 3, almost 5 and 6, often look for this as the first thing to do with me – particularly the boys, but the girls do like it as well. It’s very easy, and any child who knows the colours can play it, with suitable support from the adult about which tracks to choose. It is usually almost entirely a matter of luck, and exciting reversals of leading car can happen at any point!The game board and pieces are very sturdy and well made.Altogether, a lot of fun and well worth the extra money needed to pay for a quality product from Germany.

Un juego fácil y divertido ! Mi hijo de 5 años se quedó ilusionado