OH FOR CHRISTS SAKE??!!? WHAT IS THE POINT??

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God I am so fucking annoyed. Are people really so STUPID?

The kids got this game for christmas, a board game with like a massive maze thing that sits on top of it make out of plastic, cardboard and various other CRAP. Anyway I have just spend the past HOUR trying to put the stupid thing together. WHAT IS THE POINT IN MAKING GAMES SO FAFFY AND DIFFICULT TO PUT TOGETHER?!?

Half of the bits didn't even fit properly, the instructions were shit with crappy black and white pictures that you couldn't even see and the game is for 5 and upwards?? I'm sorry but no 5 year old would be able to put this idiotic thing together, NOR would they have the patience to sit and wait while some mug adult assembled it!

AND after all that, it still isn't put together because the instructions DO NOT MAKE SENSE.

God I'm so angry I could actually scream.

Lucky Ducks - oh no, happy memories. Our removal men drove from South Wales to Leicestershire with Lucky Ducks starting to quack every time they went over a bump in the road. I don't think I helped by laughing when they told me.

Lucky Ducks quacking up and down the country - in lofts, in removal vans...shall we start a MN Campaign and write to the manufacturers?

Dear Sadistic Toy Manufacturer,

...

Yours faithfully
Quackers of Tunbridge Wells

Ohh just wait until some -evil- kind person gives one of your dc's a Lego model - like Dumbledore's office, or a spaceship or something. The instructions may be in colour, but they make no sense at all, and you are scrabbling round in a sea of tiny pieces of almost identical lego, trying to find the one piece that makes it all go together.

One of my ds's got Dumbledore's office for Christmas a few years ago, and I had to build it for him. If it were not for God's precious gift of alchohol, I would have lost my final, tenuous grip on sanity!!

oh I just knew it was mousetrap
evil parent hating toy makers

Sunny, Lego is like computers ..adults can't, simply can't, and children the right age are blur of whirring hands

I hate the donkey one which bucks up about four times before you even get all the buckets and spades and ropes balanced on the saddle

in answer to the op: there is no point

ahah Buckaroo

Ive just spent over an hour putting together a plastic garage as DS was trying to 'help'.. at leats it doesnt have to be dismantled

I hate games that have to be broken down to get in the box. We have a Pooh Tree game and the box is big enough but wrong shape do you ahve to take the top and bottom off why oh why ??

Kammy I was just scrolling through the thread to add my frustration with Mousetrap but I see you have beaten me too it. It made me very very cross and now I refuse to help the children with it.

Scoobydoo Haunted house or some such nonsense is nearly as bad although I have just about made a decent job of putting that one together........eventually.

Bin these games of the devil I say. Rid the world of them!!

golden coin maker....
i wont say anymore
breathes in deeply
i will survive it

My late dh once spent three hours one christmas eve trying to put our ds's early learning centre tractor together... every now and then i would pluck up the courage to open the door and ask how it was going.............. "DO YOU WANT TO BLOODY DO IT???" " nooooooooooo" "WELL BUGGER OFF THEN!!"
Matters werent improved on Boxing Day when ds only wanted to play with the box!

we oncce got dd a jungly gym from little tykes. the neighbours ended up handing large glasses of alcohol over the fence to us to keep us motivated, and make up for the obvious laughter from their side of the fence.

apparently half the village could hear 'is it in yet?' 'just try jumping on that bit' 'hold it still, i think we may be getting the hang of it' for about 2 hours.

the instructions said, one adult could assemble it in 30 - 40 minutes!!!

We have mousetrap. Didn't take 3 hours to put it together????

GOLDEN COIN MAKER - am right behind you Zanz1bar. We used it once, it was beyond crap and the children didn't bat an eye lid when I got rid of it, even though they normally have hissy fits when we get rid of any toys!

Without reading the thread - I bet it's Mousetrap.

Oh yes.

Tis crap when you actually get it assembled btw

I hate most games. I even get pissed off by the time it takes to put seven tiles in the Scrabble holders.

Golden Coin Maker - god yes. Just the mere mention of it makes me go cold, 6 months later.

lol at scrabble
organising the three cluedo cards would have you floored

DS got this very annoying game that took me an age to find the right sized battery - one of those square ones - then another age to find a screwdriver to fit it. It then proceeded to blow small balls up in the air which you have to catch with a net. My house is now covered in small balls and the game is pretty much useless after one outing!

Lucky Ducks???

You cannot BREATHE next to the shelf that fecker is stashed on without it going off!

DD wanted the golden coin maker for Christmas. Thankfully I'd already read about it on MN so I managed to distract her...

We have an Arctic Pet hospital on top of the bookcase atm - I started to take it out of the box on Christmas morning, saw the incredibly tiny complicated bits of pink and blue plastic that needed to be snapped off a frame and hurriedly 'lost' it... it's off to Oxfam any day now!

I find playmobil a pain, easy enough to put together but WHY CAN'T THEY LEAVE IT LIKE THAT? I get most annoyed when I spend hours setting up a perfect "scene" complete with police, robbers hiding behind bushes, a riot van waiting in the distance and a few raised handguns...only for DS to come home and put a bloody lion in the middle of it or a little boy on a pushbike (occasionally stroking the lion)

I hate all board games too. I used to enjoy chess but now DS beats me everytime so its on my list on "I'll play it tomorow with you, promise" games

The Game of Life anyone? A game where it's to your advantage to not go to University as you travel through "Life" in your loseable car with your hoover-up-able stick passengers over badly built plastic and cardboard hills.

And Mousetrap - yes, a steaming pile of shite. That hangy basket thing - never stays in place. And the game never ends, either. Seasons change, Autumn turns to Winter and you're still sat uncomfortably on the carpet playing that pissing game.

Christmas 2007 DS1 got This from Santa.

Well that was 19 hours of our lives we'll never get back!

Told him this year i was lying in wait with an MK47 and if Santa dropped any lego off he was a gonner.

Yee Gods..Port dont blame you!! i had a friends husband who came to put window locks on my ds's bedroom window... he stood on something with bare feet in the bedroom and wouldnt stop moaning! I tiold him he was a wimp and real pain was treading on the corner of a piece of lego with bare feet!!

did you get the crappy game from someone who doesnt like you? like when at skool and got the xmas card with drippy candle and baubl. we got rid of all offending games hate them all never the same as when young. kerplunk nano second of fun.has anyone knelt on bit of lego recently now that hurts! i do still like my fuzzy felt though ( ok occasionally)

is everyone ,like me hidden away on laptop as kids watch really loud and annoying bloody cbbc. should we feel guilty yet at not having thought about tea? i dont.
ps has anyone been watching the diary of anne frank my kids 9 and 11 have loved it. why dont the bbc or whoever put on something entertainig but educational on at this time each night. i hate eastenders etc i think they should put on some history or perhaps horrible history. i kno wouldnt suit younger kids.just a thought. i must try not to cry after tonights episode and will have to explain some things. wot u think

The new version of connect four utter crap things kept getting stuck random odd bits

I love mouse trap played it as a child was great game

Oh dear Lord, Lucky fcking Ducks, we got 2* [demented emoticon] Both despatched to charity shop before January started.