"Garage Sale Shopping Fun for Everyone" is how this game is described ... and yes it can be a lot of fun to play. Although it is not as much fun as actually going to a garage sale, it's an ideal game for the family that plays and shops together!
You won't be a Monopoly tycoon playing this game, but you can be the garage sale King/Queen by making the right moves and buying the right bargains. Although the game is for age 8 to adult, personally I think it would be just as much fun playing with bargain-hunter adults as with children.
It took me a few minutes to figure out a few parts of the game, but here is where I probably needed the eight year old to help me out. The object of the game is to purchase the five items needed (everyone has a different assortment) and get back home first. Everyone starts out with cash, then as you move around garage sale territory the different choices made enable you to find the great bargain or pay too much for an item.
As in a real garage sale, the route you take is your own choice and this is where the strategy can come into play. Will you go the right way or will you be wandering around just waiting for the right garage sale with the perfect buys? I did enjoy this aspect of the game, not just going around a "set pattern"" made it more interesting.
The next time the whole family is over, this game will be coming out. It's quicker than Monopoly, not as brain-taxing as Scrabble, appeals to the garage saler in all of us and is just plain fun.
The game was created by Celia Weiner, who also created the "I Love Lucy" board game and author of the 1000 trivia questions for the "I Love Lucy Trivia Game".
