The Bottom Line
The Top Trumps card games won't win awards for strategic gaming, but they will provide hours of inexpensive fun for children who enjoy the themes.
Pros
- An updated version of the children's card game War.
- Decks have appealing themes.
- Good for family trips.
Cons
- Games get redundant for adults.
- In the United States, only available at Toys R Us.
Description
- For 2 or more players, ages 7 and up.
- 15 to 30 minutes per game.
- Published by Winning Moves / Parker Brothers / Hasbro.
- Decks include Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Simpsons, dinosaurs, predators, and military jets.
- Each deck has 30 cards.
- Decks cannot be played against each other.
Guide Review - Top Trumps
Remember playing the card game War? Top Trumps brings some thought and decisions to that completely random game. Each card lists six attributes (for example, the Star Wars cards list age, height, force ability, fighting ability, humility, and number of movie appearances), and the player whose turn it is looks at his top card, then chooses one attribute to compare.
Each player reads the same statistic on their top card; the one with the highest number wins all of the cards. The game continues until one player owns the entire deck. The Top Trumps card games are an inexpensive and very portable (each comes in a hard plastic container) way to pass the time. And it would be silly to expect more from a game based on the card game War.
