Filed Under: Games for two players, Toy Review Tagged With: game review, ninja, review, slap ninja, toy review, Two player game Spear’s Games Superpuzzle With the strapline “A second to learn… a lifetime to master” I can happily confirm that Slap Ninja is an incredibly easy game to learn to play. Mastering it however is a totally different story. They're based in convenient locations including supermarkets, newsagents and train stations. Plus they're often open late and on Sundays.

Inside the box you’re again faced with a familiar looking plastic game board and an array of coloured pegs of two different sizes. One of the most obvious things when you look at the deluxe Master Mind box is that a different couple appear on the cover. Again you have the seated white business man, but this time behind him is a woman of Indian appearance. It’s still an iconic look, but a different couple. This extended version of the game also appears to have gone by the name Super Master Mind too. The games inside are identical from what I can tell, but the name different. Possibly for different markets. Super 3 is actually a fantastic game to play one on one with a child. It worked brilliantly for my 6 year old son. Complicated enough that he didn’t get bored, but not so complicated that he found it hard and gave up. It requires a bit of strategic though and to understand the rules about when you can place a peg where, but it’s a brilliant game for practicing adding up the totals on two dice too. Player 1 is the Ninja Master who uses the Huge Karate Chop SLAP to defend the precious coin from the sneaky thieving opponent. Filed Under: Games for two players, Spears Games, Vintage Games Tagged With: spears games, Superpuzzle, vintage games Vintage MB Games – Super 3Slap Ninja comes in a front open cardboard box attached at the with a couple plastic style ties, easily cut with sissors, a small plastic ties at the bottom. But, before we move on to deluxe Master Mind, let’s start with the original game. The History of Master Mind

Whoever defeats the other by winning three times (coins or slaps) WINS. What Did The Kids Think Of The Slap Ninja Game With two players it can either be that they both try the same puzzle with the fastest to do so being the winner, or they can work independantly. The game itself had a bit of an air of mystery about it. The box cover featured a seated business man and a woman of Chinese appearance stood behind him. The game itself is nowhere in sight. How peculiar. With the white pegs though there is no doubt that you don’t tell them which colours are the right ones, but just in the wrong position. Instead you just tell them how many of them there are.All these instructions seem a bit confusing on first read, but once you start playing it’s actually really easy to know what you’re doing. We also kept things easy for our first attempt by having the house rule that you couldn’t have repeated colours in your code. Obviously this makes things a little easier. What’s it like to play If you’re interested in vintage board games then why not head over to Facebook and join our new vintage board games group. The rules of Slap Ninja are quite straight-forward, and it’s aimed at 4yrs+ which I would agree with. Filed Under: Games for two players, MB Games, Vintage Games Tagged With: game for two players, MB Games, Noughts and Crosses, Super 3, Tic Tac Toe, Two player game, two players, vintage, vintage game, vintage MB Games Home you go!

The code breaker has up to 12 attempts to break the code and each time they are told (using other coloured pegs) whether they have any pegs of the right colour in the correct position, or just how many pegs they have placed are the right colour but in the wrong position.

Superpuzzle is something that you an either play on your own, or against another player. The game contains two sets of twenty four pieces (one set red and one green) with each set having 12 each of two different shapes – a rectangle, and what could be described as a rectangle with a corner cut off! Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye [except the sleepless nights part, that lasts for decades I think] and I wanted to enjoy every moment I could and make it as fun as possible. Players who roll a 7 can place a peg in any central hole, or in any hole in square number 7, including the central hole. If you roll a 12 you can place a peg anywhere on the board. Rolling a 2 allows you to remove an opponents peg and then roll again. For Millie and Toby this type of one-on-one challenge is a game they love. Of course, there was lots of arguing and maybe a little bit shouting and pouting but all in all they did have a lot of fun. I did not have so much fun as Tracey, who beat me three to nothing. I shall have my revenge when we next have a games evening!

So this is an electronic and very cute, ninja topped and hilarious version of the playground game we’ve all played – with sound effects and a buzzer! Remember putting your hand out in front of you and challenging people to see if they can slap it? Yep. This is it in a more refined manner. Haha. Following on from the success of original Master Mind, deluxe Master Mind extends the game so that there are now five holes and eight colours. This means up to 32,000 permutations. Yikes. However it was not just the kids that loved playing Slap Ninja. My husband couldn’t wait to get his hands on the game to prove himself as the Master Ninja. If they kids enjoyed zapping each other they definatley loved zapping Daddy more. The easy bit is the code maker setting a code and arranging their five pegs behind the included little plastic screen so that their opponent can’t see them. There’s no date on my copy of Superpuzzle, but I believe it to date from either the late 60s or early 70s. Certainly the days before people had phones or computers to entertain them on a wet Sunday afternoon.

The Slap Ninja controller is modelled after a karate bench. On top there are 3 led lights at either end. One of the “bench legs” is plain, the other has a small button on it and a trigger. Above this “bench leg” is a red coin and a giant ninja hand. TheSlap Ninja game is aimed at children aged 4 and up. I think that this is pretty accurate. Not least because the trigger to control the giant hand takes some effort to squeeze. The ninja master is trying to stop him by slapping his hand away. Hence the name, Slap Ninja. The master squeezes a trigger to make the ninja slap the student and if they successfully stop him from pressing the coin they score a point instead.