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An adult reviews Mouse Trap, explaining its simple board-game rules before assembling the elaborate contraption and setting off the chain-reaction trap.
0:12 Did you ever play Mouse Trap? I can't say I really did. I've played with it, but I don't think I ever really sat down and played the actual game. 0:21 How could you? Look at all this stuff. All you want to do is set up the trap and watch it go. 0:25 Giving a kid a game like this was like giving a madman a loaded gun and a pile of crack. 0:30 Look at this shit. Who's this guy? Ooh. We all know the trap steals the show, but let me take a moment to explain how to play. 0:38 Each player is a colored mouse. You roll the die and move around the board, hoping to get as much cheese as possible. 0:45 Watch out for the fat cat, you'll go back. Essentially, it's just a mindless race to the end, with the luck of the die controlling the whole outcome. 0:53 Along the way, you slowly build pieces of the trap. You land on a number, and you add another piece until the trap's complete. 1:01 But no kid wanted to go through that effort. You just want to see some action. 1:04 It's like, hey, you want to play mouse trap? Yeah, let me set up that trap. 1:09 So let's put this together. I haven't done this in years. How's this thing go? 1:13 Let's look at the instructions. Uh, damn, what a project. It's all about turning this crank to make a stop sign hit a shoe that kicks a bucket. 1:24 Damn it, kick the bucket. Oh shit. Here I am as an adult trying to figure out a toy that's intended for a 6-year-old. 1:33 When you get to the end, you just keep going around a loop until someone lands on the cheese wheel, but at the same time, someone has to land on the crank space. 1:42 The chance of that happening is like waiting for a solar eclipse, but once it happens, it's time for the trap. 1:48 Here we go. 1:56 Oh yeah, it's just as cool as it ever was. 2:03 Every time you see that, you just want to see it again. I'm a grown man, and that's still fascinating. 2:09 Who wants to play the game? Just crank that shit. None of it's necessary. 2:13 Why is there a guy standing on a seesaw waiting for a ball to drop? 2:17 Why is there a red bathtub in the air sitting on a tower of pipes? 2:21 What kind of situation is this? It would be simpler just to drop the trap or just land on the space and win. 2:28 That's what most games were like, and that's why Mouse Trap is so rad. 2:30 And that's why Mousetrap is so rad. 
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