12 December 2016

Review & Giveaway: Rhino Hero Game


Back in November the family and I had another little trip up North to the lovely cottage we booked previously in Berriedale, near Wick. We all love travelling further up the Scottish highlands and the cottage we book is right beside the sea. It's beautiful. The cottage is also fab because there's no TV, wifi or mobile reception so we really can escape from the world. With kids though it means some form of entertainment is required so when we were sent a copy of Rhino Hero to review I gladly agreed.


Rhino Hero is one of this years must have games with it's awesome 3D card stacking ability putting the fun back into after Christmas dinner games. You'll need a bit of a steady hand but this really is a game for all the family. The game can be played by 2-5 players and have some quick and simple easy to follow instructions for immediate play. Included with this game is 31 roof cards (a.k.a action cards), 28 walls, 1 foundation (a.k.a starting card), 1 Rhino Hero and of course some instructions. Depending on the number of players the game can take between 5-15 minutes to play and it really can be quite addictive.


So what is the game idea? Well you've to build a house of cards, floor by floor, as tall as you can for Rhino Hero. Just like a real house it is made up of walls and ceilings. As you never know how tall it will become the ceilings look like a roof. The marks on the roof determine how the walls of the following floor have to be erected, and the symbols on the roof determine certain building conditions, which might mix things up a bit. The aim of the game is to be the first to have placed one's roof cards i.e. you have none left in your hand.


Before starting to play you need to prepare. You do this by placing the foundation card with either side face up in the centre of the table. The easy side has two wall marks the hard side has one. You then shuffle the roof cards and give out five to every player. If there's only two players then take seven cards each. The remaining roof cards are put in a provision pile away from the foundations. You then get the walls and Rhino Hero ready.


Rhino Hero doesn't need a dice so the game is played in a clockwise direction with generally the youngest player going first. Or whoever has done a good deed that day! This game is basically building a house of cards with a few tweaks throw in to keep it interesting. Some of the roof cards have special symbols. There's a change of direction card which means if you were playing clockwise then you simply play anti-clockwise now. The exclamation mark card means take a breather so the next player has to take a rest and lose a turn. The plus one symbol means the next player has to draw a new roof card from the provision pile before they start to build. There's a couple of other symbols including one for Rhino Hero which was by far the favourite in our family. It means the next player has to move Rhino Hero from where ever he is to the new Rhino Hero mark.


This was a really exciting and fun game to play, it even got quite tense at times but what a laugh everyone had. The more players (up to 5) the better really as it can get competitive and you become quite strategic when you have the right cards. Logan loved this game very much. He had no bother balancing the wall cards, placing the roof or moving Rhino Hero around so I'd definitely recommend for children of his age (7). It's a 5+ game and is surprising cheap at only £6.60 currently on Amazon.

If it's not on your child's Christmas wish list (or yours) then definitely put it on. Or why not enter my giveaway below to be in with a chance of winning a Rhino Hero of your own? Worth a shot.

Family Fever

59 comments on "Review & Giveaway: Rhino Hero Game"

Tracy Nixon on 12 December 2016 at 20:48 said...

I love Top Trumps and Uno!

Sarah on 12 December 2016 at 21:56 said...

We like snap

Jesswoods1992 on 12 December 2016 at 23:55 said...

We love pairs ❤❤❤❤❤

Kim Neville on 12 December 2016 at 23:58 said...

Memory game. My son is really good at it 😀

amy bondoc on 13 December 2016 at 07:50 said...

we love playing pairs :)

pauline hill on 13 December 2016 at 11:32 said...

SNAP WITH THE KIDS

abbyed33 on 13 December 2016 at 17:46 said...

pairs

Unknown on 13 December 2016 at 20:04 said...

Playing snap.

Catherine @ Story Snug on 14 December 2016 at 08:07 said...

This looks really fun! I love playing games, especially at Christmas :)

#TriedTested

helen tovell said...

It would have to be Uno

Robyn Clarke on 14 December 2016 at 23:22 said...

We love Canasta.

jade on 15 December 2016 at 07:45 said...

We like playing Uno

Ella Dawn on 21 December 2016 at 09:14 said...

pairs we love, but Archie really loves the spotty dog game for Orchards

Rachael Sexey on 26 December 2016 at 16:24 said...

The monopoly card game xx

Unknown on 28 December 2016 at 14:55 said...

nice game i use to play it when i was 12 year old word 2010 torrent

Rich Tyler on 29 December 2016 at 15:15 said...

I love UNO!

Unknown on 29 December 2016 at 18:35 said...

Top Trumps!

pretty pistol on 30 December 2016 at 13:38 said...

snap x

Unknown on 31 December 2016 at 02:56 said...

Uno. :D

Kerry locke on 31 December 2016 at 13:45 said...

I love exploding kittens and the kids love to play dobble

Susan Smith on 31 December 2016 at 14:54 said...

Has to be Uno, we all love to play this

Solange said...

Snap

Leanne W on 1 January 2017 at 23:28 said...

snap x - leanne w

Mel Turner on 2 January 2017 at 21:53 said...

Snap

Rebecca Mercer on 3 January 2017 at 05:12 said...

Solataire

Unknown on 3 January 2017 at 06:52 said...

Happy Families

lisa chappell on 3 January 2017 at 16:50 said...

currently uno <3

Jo Glasspool on 4 January 2017 at 01:04 said...

We love Uno.

Anonymous said...

Snap.

Rachel Craig

CatherineL on 4 January 2017 at 20:15 said...

Uno

Dale Dow on 4 January 2017 at 22:34 said...

Jack Change It

TuesdayAt7 on 5 January 2017 at 01:49 said...

switch

Elspeth McMillan on 5 January 2017 at 09:39 said...

Snap or Old Maid :D

cinderellao9 on 5 January 2017 at 10:04 said...

rummy

kasza on 5 January 2017 at 15:08 said...

Picture snap

Patricia Avery on 5 January 2017 at 18:01 said...

Love playing Uno and Top Trumps with the grandchildren :)

Samantha walker said...

I don't usually play card but on our recent family holiday my daughter learnt me to play fish

wef1984 on 5 January 2017 at 19:14 said...

We like Uno at the moment

Unknown on 5 January 2017 at 20:26 said...

we like top trumps at the moment

Diana on 5 January 2017 at 20:45 said...

Uno :)

katie w on 5 January 2017 at 22:41 said...

has to be snap

lynsey Buchanan said...

We love playing Uno

Natalie Crossan on 6 January 2017 at 00:25 said...

pairs xx

paula cheadle on 6 January 2017 at 00:51 said...

Gin Rummy

jimblocker on 6 January 2017 at 01:00 said...

Trumps

Unknown on 6 January 2017 at 09:48 said...

We love uno

Maria Jane Knight said...

Snap!!

Unknown on 6 January 2017 at 10:50 said...

Currently teaching my daughter classics like snap, happy families, go fish.

TRACYSB on 6 January 2017 at 11:13 said...

We have just started playing what we used to call "Popawally" - I am sure there's another name for it. You deal all the players 3 cards each and they pick up a card from the unused stack in turn. You need 3 cards of the same suit going up to 21, or you can stick if you think you are closer and no-one else will get "Popawally". If you get cards making 21 you have to shout "Popawally" and make a silly face (that's a new rule we've just made up). :)

Kathleen Bywaters on 6 January 2017 at 14:02 said...

Uno it is always a laugh :)

Unknown on 6 January 2017 at 15:24 said...

Old Maid is my favourite card game xx

Ela on 6 January 2017 at 15:59 said...

Poker

HayleyT on 6 January 2017 at 17:54 said...

We love playing Tops Trumps! My 2 girls have lots of different Tops Trumps decks and we have lots of fun playing the game together.

Unknown on 6 January 2017 at 18:31 said...

Uno :)

Emmamaryd on 6 January 2017 at 21:04 said...

Uno

DebMac on 6 January 2017 at 21:24 said...

Canasta

ellen sampson said...

the old favourite, snap

Unknown on 6 January 2017 at 23:05 said...

Pairs

Prashant on 23 January 2017 at 06:19 said...

Nice blog for children card game but I think young people take more profit of this game.

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