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Each person or team has a set of pieces for building their home including the foundation, walls, roof, trees, mailbox, family and their dog. Roll a set of dice to start building your house but if you roll three of a kind the house and everything else will come crashing down and you'll have to start all over!

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Pros

• Excellent game for large (or even small) groups
• Very fast and exciting

• Good quality

Cons

• Little to no strategy involved
• Slots on the pieces might bend or become worn over time

Description

• For ages 8+, takes 30 minutes to play, for 2-8 players (or more!), not suitable for children under 3
• Comes with four of the following: foundation plates, roofs, 4 different walls, dogs, mailboxes
• Comes with 8 trees, 16 family members, dice, bell, score pad, pencil, instructions, and memory book

Guide Review - Bringing Down the House: Family Game Review

This game is mostly luck, so my family and I haven't enjoyed it as much as the other SimplyFun games, but it is a great group game and is fast paced. It's also great to play with children. My daughter, who's four, can put the pieces together or roll the dice, in fact she had more luck with the dice than me because I kept rolling three of a kind, but when she played a couple of rounds she didn't "bring down the house" once! What's great is that you can watch an online video from SimplyFun to actually see how the game is played. SimplyFun games are sold directly through consultants, you can even become one, who come to your home and throw a game party so you can learn how to play some of their great games.

You can also buy the games directly from their web site.

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