ThinkFun Zingo
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The Zingo! Game from ThinkFun gives a new spin to the all-time favorite! Each player gets a Zingo! Card to fill using the tiles spit out from the Zingo! Zinger machine. The first player to yell the name of an item on the tile, gets the tile. Completely fill up your card, yell Zingo!, and win! Includes 8 double-sided cards, 72 picture tiles, the Zingo! Zinger, and instructions. For 2-8 players.… Product details and pricing info |
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76 Customer Reviews Posted
- Great game
- Great game to play. My 5 and 3 year old love to play it. When their cards come up I ask them to spell the picture that is on the card. Some of the three letter picture they can spell, without looking at the spelling on the bottom. I gave it the five stars for these reasons.
- 2008-04-12, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A pretty good game for a good price
- Zingo is a variant of Bingo (with a zing!). Zingo involves matching an image and word on a tile with a number of images on the zingo card. Image and vocabulary recognition, matching, memory, concentration, and social interaction are the skills promised to be improved. On most of these points Zingo is successful.
The zingo cards have images like a foot, cat, bat, and a cake in a 3 x 3 grid. The game comes with 8 double sided cards. There are two levels of play (red and green), one on each side of card. The "zinger" is a pre-loaded tile dispenser that is slid forward to reveal two tiles at a time. The first to call out the word on the desired tile gets to place that tile on their card, when the card is filled with tiles the game ends. One positive aspect of this game is that on each tile there is a picture of an object and the printed word, this helps associate the word with the picture for early readers. I also like the fact that all of the pieces fit into a fairly small box neatly and can be pretty portable. The length of time to play a full game is fairly short, 5-10 minutes. One unfavorable aspect of the game is that after you've played it a few times there is not a lot more to learn, and the amount of variation between games is low. The two game levels have more to do with how often the players are fighting to get the same pieces so this increases social difficulty rather than added game play difficulty. Reloading the zinger is also not a very fun process for kids, although it only takes a couple of minutes to complete.
To summarize, Zingo is a good game, especially for 3-5 year olds. The manufacturer's age recommendation is 4-8, but I think that kids beyond 6 will find the game boring. To deal with the wearisome aspects of the game when played too often, I recommend you play the game some, then put it away for awhile so it feels fresh again when you bring it back out. Considering the low price, it is definitely worth it to add it to your game closet.
note: there is a marvel superheroes version of this game that might find a better audience with some kids: Zingo Heroes - 2008-04-05, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- my kids love this game
- I have a 2 and 3 yr old both boys, this game is easy enough that they both can play and have a great time. It teaches them how to win and lose and they love to shout zingo, great game for young kids. They beg to play it every night before bed, and I have to admit I like it to.
- 2008-04-01, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great first game for 2 1/2 year old!
- The recommended age is 4-8 but after reading other reviews I bought this for my 2 1/2 year old. She caught onto the game right away and now asks to play with it every morning. Perfect duration of game for her attention span too. Helps to improve her vocabulary and helps with recognizing small case letters and good starter game for learning to spell! Highly recommended!
- 2008-03-20, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Just buy the game. You won't be sorry.
- I was looking for a new game (I've just about had it with Candyland) and bought this based on the
recommendations of others. They knew what they were talking about.
My 4 yo daughter loved this game from the get go. She picked up on it right away and asked if friends could come over to play. How can you beat that? - 2008-03-18, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
