RavensburgerSnail's Pace Race Game for Age 3 & Up - Quick Children's Racing Game Where Everyone Wins!

This was a favorite game when I was teaching preschool. The board and pieces are colorful, durable, and easy for young children to handle. The game reinforces colors, one-to-one correspondence, and practice in controlling and rolling a die. The game has no winner or loser between children but there is clearly a winning snail. This allows children to learn to take turns and play a game to the finish without becoming overly focused on whether or not they are winning. The game can be played with one or more players. The box is sturdy and the board and pieces easily fit allowing children to successfully put everything away when finished thus reinforcing self-help skills and responsibility.While I give the game 5 stars, I was very disappointed in how it was shipped. It arrived with a large mailing label and a barcode label affixed directly to the game box instead of the game box first being placed in packaging. I was able to carefully remove the labels but a large sticky residue was left behind. Very disappointing especially because this was ordered as a gift.

Perfect first game! Very well constructed, sturdy set. I really love that everyone works together to help each snail win. Players do not choose a color, but rather work cooperatively to see which snail will win first, second, etc. We all cheered as each snail crossed the finish line! Teaches taking turns, colors, counting, and team work, without the tears of little ones “losing”. That competitive part can come when they are older. Quick, fun game the whole family can enjoy!

Probably the only thing I hate worse than playing board games with small children is reading aloud Care Bear books. But I love Snail's Pace: the snails are very tactile and fun to hold, there's just the amount of tension and opportunity for strategy, everybody moves ahead in a linear fashion so nobody gets confused and, best of all, the game can't drag on endlessly with no conclusion. Oddly, I've found it holds older children's' attention as they "help" younger children (probably because they can relax, since it's a low-stakes game with little tension over winning and losing). Many children seem to identify with the snails, sympathizing with the "slower" ones and wanting to help them along -- even if they belong to an opponent! This is a fine game for evenings before bedtime -- nobody gets wound up, as everyone takes the snails' example and takes things r-e-a-l-l-y e-a-s-y….

This game teaches colors, counting, taking turns, and predicting. I bought this game for my children they were young and they enjoyed playing it. I bought this game for my nephews and they loved it. We played it so often and it held up so well. Pieces are well made and sturdy (unlike so many other games on the market today). Ravens burger products (including wonderful puzzles we have) are so well made. I just purchased this game again for my grandson. Looking forward to playing with him. ❤️

This game is super simple and made for little kids however we got our teens involved in this game by having everyone place their bets on who they thought would win. Our developmentally delayed 4 year old can play as well without any issues.

This is a very cute game for young kids. My three and five year-old enjoy this game and are always asking to play it with daddy over and over again. The game is a very basic game. Dice are rolled and snails race down a straigt-line. The game boasts about learning colors, but most small American children know the basic colors way before playing this game -- maybe the German kids don't. It is the creativity of a child that really makes this game grow. Our children are able to learn spacial relations with the different snail positions. The older of the two children enjoys the play-by-play analysis of snails moving across the "garden."

I bought this game to use in my preschool classroom and it has quickly become a favourite with all of my students. They love helping each of the snails make it across the board, and I love that it teaches team work and patience and taking turns. I really like that it is a non-competitive game and I enjoy watching the students cheer when the "underdog" snail finally gets to move a space. It is easy to play, but still provides plenty of entertainment.The game is very high quality. Every thing is very sturdy and I love that the snails and dice are wooden rather than plastic. The bright colours of the board and pieces just add to my love of this game. In the three months I have owned Snail's Pace Race, it has gotten plenty of use and I am sure it will continue to be played for many years to come.

Teaches toddlers turn taking, patience, color recognition, motor dexterity and so much more. My grandson is 3 and loves this game. We first played it at the local library and I was really pleased with the game. so ordered one we can play when he visits gram and papa.