ThinkFun 7706-T Zingo Word Builder Early Reading Game - Award Winning Game for Pre-Readers and Early Readers

This game was fantastic! My grands loved it and played it so well. Great game

It's perfect for on-the-go fun or for small spaces. The components are well-made and durable, ensuring it can withstand energetic little hands.The game itself is incredibly engaging. My child loves the fast-paced action of matching tiles and building words. It's a fantastic way to sneak in some early reading practice while having a blast. The rules are simple enough for young children to understand, but the game offers enough challenge to keep older kids interested.Overall, Zingo Word Builder is a fantastic choice for parents looking for a fun and educational game. It's compact, well-made, and delivers on both entertainment and learning value. Highly recommend!

My parents got the original picture Zingo for our 4 year old daughter and it's been a huge hit. When I saw that there was a word building version, we had to have it for her as well. There's no setup required like punching out pieces or assembling anything, it's ready to go when you take it out of the box. I like that there are two sides to the cards so younger children can play the easy side and older children and adults can play the harder side to make play a little more evenly matched. The tiles are sturdy plastic so you don't have to worry about them bending them or ruining them by getting them wet or anything, plus they're double sided, so no need to put them into the Zinger 'right side up'. The letters on the tiles and cards are also colored red for vowels and black for consonants. This makes it easy to explain to younger kids that on the 'easy' side of the cards, you need 2 black letters and 1 red letter for each word. The 'Zinger' is the hard plastic house that the tiles live in and are dispensed from. The top slides easily forward and back to drop two tiles into the little grooves each time. Then you slide the tiles back into as lot in the top if not needed with a satisfying little click sound. Another nice feature is all the pieces fit easily back in the sturdy game box without taking anything apart! Our 4 year old picked up the game quickly even though she's averse to spelling and reading and it gets her to sound out the words on her own because she wants to beat Mommy!

I’m a teacher and this was a gift for a student who loves Zingo. It’s a very fun, easy game for those at independent reading levels. I work in a self contained special education room and this has held up to our level of use. It was fantastic quality, easy to store without taking up too much room, and had all pieces accounted for.

They are quite serious when they say K-1 grade. Your child really needs to have letter sounds and fundamental spelling of simple words down before investing in this game.That said, it does a great job pointing out the importance of vowels vs. consonants -- even our pre-schooler picked up on the different tile colors. Our kid does love this game and wants to play it.... She just isn't ready for it yet. I look forward to being able to write a better review in a year or two because this was NOT the fault of the manufacturer.. I just thought the game was slightly different than what it turned out to be.

We love Zingo, so as my son gets older, I wanted something more challenging. It's simple with only 3-letter words, but very helpful when getting a preschooler learning how to spell. We have spent lots of time learning and playing with this and we even make up our own version of the game to make it more fun for everyone. If you like Zingo with the pictures, I would recommend trying this one for your little one when he or she is learning how to spell.

We received this game in the mail yesterday and could not stop playing it. Although challenging for my almost 3 year old, he still enjoyed the process. My almost 5 year old loved it. I have no doubt this game will help my children learn to love words. I was a tad bit skeptical before I ordered this game but, upon receiving it, I can't wait to try out another. The tiles are plastic, not cardboard as I anticipated. The playing cards have two sides. The yellow side is for beginners and each word only has one letter missing. Multiple letters will fit to make a word. As we played, we spelled each word. For example, one of the words was ___ AT. Several consonants would fit into that blank to make a word. This game opens up many opportunities to talk about site words, word families, rhyming words etc. I know this will be a family favorite for many years to come.Both the cards and the tiles are heavy duty. The playing "zinger" is made of hard plastic. Both my almost 3 year old and my almost 5 year old loved moving the zinger to reveal the letters. My almost 3 year old was calling out the letters as they appeared.

My granddaughters had fun with this. I think they liked the "zingo" card-dealing machine the best, but we bought it for 2 little girls: 1 who is 4 1/2 and beginning to sound out words and the older one is 7, and she can already read all of the "easy reader" books. It turned out not to be much of a challenge to the child who can read, but she took the role of using the "zingo" machine and let her younger sister figure it out herself. They had a lot of fun, and we enjoyed watching their version of the game!