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| | | Description: | | Can you help Poppa complete his pizza with Poppa's Pizza Pile Up Game by International Playthings? Or will the pizza topple over before all the toppings have been added? Players take turns rolling the dice and placing cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms and pepperoni pieces onto the pizza pie. If you cause the pizza to tip and some of the toppings fall off, you lose. The player who can outlast all the other opponents wins the game. For advanced play you can take Poppa off his base and he wobbles around even more while holding the pizza. 2-4 Players Ages 4+ | | | Features: | |
• Great for Preschoolers! No Reading Required
• Great for Balance and Fine Motor Skills
• Develops eye hand coordination and manual dexterity
• Includes fun plastic ingredients like cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms and pepperoni pieces
• For 2 to 4 players, ages 4 years and up
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 11.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 28 reviews |
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 Very Disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!!Jan 22, 2010
If I could have given it a negative star, I would. Impossible to play, especially for younger kids. We couldn't get more then one piece on the board at one time.
 Fun with modificationsJan 08, 2010
I purchased this game for my 3 and 4 year old boys. It seems durable and the concept of the game is fun and has some educational value (in teaching kids about balance). To play you take turns rolling a die that has different pizza toppings on each side and then placing the corresponding pizza topping (pepperoni, tomato, mushroom, or cheese string) onto the pizza crust, which is balancing on the finger of the chef figure. One side of the die has a picture of all the toppings and the player who rolls that can choose which topping they want to place on the pizza. Another side of the die has a picture of the chef and if a player rolls that side they must skip a turn. You take turns rolling the die and placing toppings until the pizza becomes unbalanced and "topples" over. Each topping is weighted differently, so there is some strategy to how you place the toppings in order to keep the pizza balanced. The problem is, that it seems no matter how you place the toppings, no matter what toppings are placed, and no matter who (child or adult) is placing the toppings, the thing topples over after 3 toppings are on it. Kind of a bummer.
So, we have modified this game a bit. It becomes more of a team game the way we play. We place the crust on the floor, not on the chef's finger. We take turns rolling the die and placing our toppings on the crust in a way we think it will be balanced. We continue around the circle, rolling and placing toppings until someone rolls the chef square. Then we pick up the pizza and carefully place it on the chef's finger. We talk about if we think it looks like it will be balanced or not, and if not, which way we think it will fall. Then, we let go and if it is balanced we take it off and continue playing. If it falls, the game is over (and we usually play again).
The kids still like the game and request to play it often.
Rip Off! Awful!Dec 27, 2009
This game is way too difficult for any age! I would never give this as a gift!
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Don't waste your moneyDec 20, 2009
Please, don't waste your money. I bought this game for my daughter. She loves to help me to make a real pizza, so I sought this game will be perfect for her. Neither me, 31 with university degree, nor my husband, 30 with college degree, could put even one piece on the pizza. Everything was sliding down immediately. Later that night my husband's sister, 26 with masters degree, had the same success. We returned this toy to the store the very next day. What a waste.
One bare pizzaDec 02, 2009
What a bummer! We returned this game because, like so many other reviewers, even the adults couldn't get the pizza parts to stay on top. Topple isn't as cute to look at, but it's a reliable substitute.
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