University Games Go Diego Go! Treasure Quest

• Activity with imagery from popular Nickelodeon programs that kids love.
• Bi-lingual instruction sheet.

Hands down the worst board game I've ever encountered:
Our daughter is 3 and a half years old, and loves Dora & Diego, so we were not surprised when she picked this game. We have other Dora/Diego toys and games, and many of the books. The short story is this: the game is pointless, poorly designed, requires little thought, and might be the product of 15 minutes contemplation by some bored marketing folks at University Games over beers one afternoon. Here's a few more details if you are still reading and considering a purchase. First of all, the game is poorly designed. Players move flimsy cardboard pieces around a map, but the map is a huge wrinkled piece of vinyl that cannot be placed flat upon a floor, so the pieces do not stay upright. There are four story scenes placed in the corners of the map, face-down during the first stage, and when a player reaches one of these boards they select 2 cheap colorforms to the backside of the board. A player who has done this with all 4 boards moves to the center of the map, and then when everyone has done this, the story boards are flipped over to reveal a scence. The players then stick the colorforms in the scene to make up a random story from Diego's world. The entire game is just a flimsy advertisement for more stuff from the Dora/Diego series. The only thing a small child may find fun is sticking colorforms on a scene, but it doesn't require this weak excuse of a game to do that.

Do Not Buy This Toy!:
We received this as a present for my (...) who is a HUGE Diego fan and loves Colorforms. He was so excited. The gameboard is not cardboard like most board games but instead has a plastic sheet that has been folded numerous times to get it into such a small box. It does not lay flat despite taping it and using books to weigh it down. The game pieces are tall, lightweight cardboard figures that are impossible to have stand on a bumpy gameboard. So it ends up being used just for the two small sheets of tiny Diego colorforms instead of a game. For $20, there are way better Diego and colorforms toys out there.