[Ad- gifted product] Board games are something both of us play, every other week, at their tabletop night! Jupiter wasn’t big into board games, until she started writing for Big Boss Battle and started reviewing board games along side Dann. When John Adams offered up Shark Chase to play with the kids, we felt it would be a perfect time to start getting them well into the world of board games. Shark Chase contains a pretty simple concept; don’t let your sea creatures get eaten!
Unlike the more heavy duty board games we review as apart of our jobs, Shark Chase is perfect for children, providing an easy game that takes a few minutes truly understand. The set up is pretty simple – just just need to follow the instructions and put together a strange shark contraption in between a water level and an island. On your first time playing, you do need to stick all of the eyes onto the shark and various sea creatures, with is better done by tweezers if I am honest.
Once everything is set up, the first round consists of placing your colored fish on the start marker, with the shark ahead of the line of fish. When you are ready to play, one designated player starts rolling the dice, shouting out the colors after each roll. Players must rush to move their sea creature forward, all while the shark moves automatically across the board, looking to eat up any leftover fish that are in it’s path. If your fish is quick enough, it can make it to the middle island before the next round of sea creatures is placed out and the game continues. There are three different types of creatures in total; crabs, fish and turtles, all worth different points. After all three rounds, you can count up the points and declare a winner; whoever is rolling the dice does need help moving the pieces.
Shark Chase is a hectic and fun game – one of those ones that impresses children right off the bat. Watching the shark eat up different fish is actually a point of curiosity, as the shark will keep going forward with the fish in it’s mouth. The kids actually kept feeding the shark as it went around, laughing about how it worked. Watching the shark move is pretty fun, but so is the hectic chaos of the board game itself. We all had a really lovely time playing and interacting with the board game once the round was done.
You can get your own copy of Shark Chase on Amazon.