Roly Poly Goalie by Exploding Kittens

Okay, I will admitat first I thought that a game geared towards not just kids, but LITTLE kids would not translate to adults. I was SO wrong!! Not saying you HAVE to add shots, but I'm not saying it's a bad thing lol. It basically starts out as the card game war, but when a tie occurs hilarity ensues! We added extra distance on all the battle games to both make it harder and more entertaining for spectators, in fact had we had more space we probably would have increased the distance even more! The "battles" are easy in theory but can prove quite tricky ( especially with the added distance) and absolutly nothing is as funny as seeing adults wiggling across the ground noseing a ball to the finish line! Make sure you have your phones out because trust me, you NEED to photograph this :)

What a cute game! Played this with my two nieces (4 and 6) over the weekend, and we had an absolute ball. They especially loved the squishy roly polies included in the game and kept playing with them after we were finished. I'm going to buy copies for all the kids I know who are celebrating birthdays!

Our family loved this game. We have older kids and younger cousins. Everyone was able to play and have fun. It is a great game to brush up on the concept of greater than and less than as well as pre-k number identification. The added part with the Roly Polies broke up the game and there were many laughs! This game is great for essential math foundational skills and gross motor for little ones while being engaging for the big kids in the family!

This game is immensely silly. The main gameplay is the card game War, where you and an opponent place cards at the same time, and the one with the higher number takes both. However, when the same cards are played, a “Roly Poly” battle takes place, using the cute round squishies that come with the game. Make sure you play this either outside, or in an area with a LOT of space. The roly polys are squishy, but are apt to get chucked across the room.I played this game both the real way, but also with my 2-year-old daughter. She is far too young to play the game for real, but it was still so much fun for her to tell me the numbers and the colors on the cards, and roll the roly polys across the floor. Definitely recommend for any age group!

Hot take -- I never really liked the game of War. Felt a bit like a playing card version of Monopoly. Endless swings of fortune and I never knew, short of total domination and possessing all of the cards, how to end the game.Roly Poly Goalie totally changes that! To start, the four action cards bring a physical element to this sedentary game. I always wished for ties -- for wars -- but with RPG we were all begging to tie so we could whip the squishy balls at each other, futilely try to knock the ball of the box, and strategically go through the wickets. Having a set end to the game (after completing all the action cards and then totaling up points) solved the endlessness of regular War.At first we were worried that with only four numbers we would be having wars all of the time. Shockingly, this wasn't the case -- but we do still wonder why there weren't at least a few more numbers (or just a regular set of cards -- perhaps the Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces could have triggered other ridiculous challenges! Of course, now that we have the basic structure of the game we can certainly use a standard deck and see how that plays out.That said, we plan to modify a few of the action challenges. Knocking the ball off the box proved to hard (when we only counted direct hits on the ball) -- so maybe we make this a bit more like Angry Birds and count when the ball knocks down the box -- or better yet, if we were to build a tower for the ball. And the final challenge we found a bit too easy (using our heads only to roll a ball over the final card). Instead, we might throw in a few obstacles or waypoints to also cross in sequence (or when we are playing as a team, make it a relay).We also found ourselves wishing for a few more of the action challenges -- they are far and away the best part of the game. The game would be better, in our opinion, with no repetition of the actions -- instead have a few more in total, but have each challenge be unique.But that's what is kind of perfect about the game -- there are so many ways to scale it up or down, to add more challenges, or to modify the existing challenges to fit our crowd. I'd have loved a few blank action cards to allow us to make up challenges and easily let them get shuffled in. This is a minor hiccup, though, and one that we can certain overcome.Overall, this game was a massive hit. I'm a teacher and we played during an activity period at school -- fifth grade through eighth graders loved played in mixed groups. We started as a group of four and before the period ended we had twelve active players and the rest of the class watching and cheering. Becareful where you play -- make sure you can have these missiles ricocheting around the room!

This was a really fun card game with physical activities that incorporated movement and a lot of laughs. It was very simple to play, but had added instructions for each physical activity that kept it interesting. The balls are very soft and easy to throw, not causing any damage when I was hit in the forehead by my overachieving adult son!

We got this for our 7-year-old, and my wife and I were a bit shocked at how much we enjoyed playing with our daughter. The game levels out the playing field a bit by relying on luck at times, and it was great to see my daughter genuinely win without us having to let her. 5 stars!

This game asks how can we make that boring card game War not suck? Add a hint of Throw Throw Burrito in and you have Roly Poly Goalie. The game starts as the standard 1v1 war setup up even to the point of laying out 3 prize cards after a match. After that it's very different! Instead of flipping another card to decide the victor, you get to play fun mini games. This includes battles and trying to knock a roly poly off the game box. It also help how amazing the art of the throw items in the Exploding Kitten games are which now includes burritos, avocados, and roly polys. The one thing we weren't crazy about was the final battle moving the roly poly on the ground with our heads. We just opted to do a throw from far away and see who could closer for the points. The best part is unlike War, the game can end 2 ways and doesn't drag on forever like War tends to. Like War you win if you get all the cards but games will often end when all 7 battles have been completed so it never becomes tedious.

The good: my son is learning numbers in preschool & we love this game for being about numbers and we got to talk about more and less. As always the game is very well made and so freaking cute! The bad: dogs & foam balls do NOT mix well. We made some adjustments & kept our game to a table, but it does take some room to get the most out of the game

Roly Poly Goalie is based on the common card game of “War” so it's super easy to pick up & learn. The war challenges are where it becomes different. When you get to that point, there are physical challenges you draw from a pile. Winner takes all cards. Coordination is helpful but not required so little kids can get as much fun out of it as adults. Definitely a fun one to add to the rotation. I received this game to test & give an honest review.