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 Great game control Aug 20, 2010
This is a great way to control who answers first in a game situation. The kids have fun with it. The hardest part is the cords. There is a cordless version, but is cost more. If you are going to use it a lot, it would be worth the extra cost.
 Excellent for school teachers or church group leaders!!! Aug 17, 2010
This is a wonderful product. I bought mine years ago and works great. One review here speaks of short cords now but mine is older and the cords are plenty long to group around a table and then some. This unit requires no batteries (although you can choose to put them in the main unit if you are using it outside or something) as it has an AC adapter which is what I use. The buzzers work very well. Only six can play at once. I teach 5th and 6th graders at church and they love this but sometimes they just want to push the buzzers and be silly without having an answer. So, when they answer incorrectly, their turn at the buzzer is done and the next child comes up to play and so forth. This works great and discourages silly 'button pushing'. When I have extra kids, I also often give the kids a turn being the question answer person with the white button to clear the buzzers after each guess. I found that it took too long to try and think up questions and/or look appropriate ones up in a trivia book to play this game being I wasn't working off a review in a textbook or something like that. So, I found the game Outburst. They make a Bible version I use at church as well as a kid and Junior version that each have their own trivia cards. The cards slip in a reader that decodes the answers. So, I don't use the board to that game, just the cards and reader so it is very compact to keep with this Eggsbert unit. The cards have a subject like "Name animals listed as being on Noah's ark". Then, the card lists 10 answers to guess with check marks on the reader just off to the side of each answer. This way you can easily keep track of the answers already given until all 10 are answered. The Jr and kid version of Outburst has fun questions like name the Disney movie villains etc. I find that if I alternate a general question like this with a Bible one, it keeps the kids interest well. We then have a jar of crayons on the table and a bag of candy. For each correct answer, a child takes a crayon and then when they have a certain amount of crayons, they trade them in to choose a piece of candy. I have brought this game to school as well as church. I have played it with 1st graders up to Junior Highers. They all love it and so do the adults who see it. Everyone wants to know where it came from. Very fun way to learn! I can't say a bad thing about it. If it broke today, I would quickly replace it with the very same thing. If you are a teacher at school or church, you will not regret the purchase. It is well worth the money.
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Great for the classroom May 07, 2010
I created a jeopardy like game in powerpoint and used the Eggspert to answer. My students had a blast and can't wait to play again!! Before we started I asked non-schhol questions (What is you favorite color?) so they all knew how it felt to use the buzzer.
Great for Homeschoolers Apr 06, 2010
My children first used this in their Latin class and told me how much fun it was. I purchased it for use in our homeschool and it has been fantastic! The kids love the game show aspect of this and no matter the subject they always ask "can we use the Eggspert". It really makes learning like a game and I think it motivates them to do better because they never know when the information might come up in a game of Eggspert. We've even used it to play family games.
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 Great idea but... Jan 29, 2010
If you teach high school with 30+ students in your class, don't bother buying this. The company shortened the buzzer cords from 10 feet to 4 feet, and it's impossible to get teams to crowd around the main control panel within a 4-foot radius. I wrote to customer service, and they were not helpful. I had to buy my own extensions off of another Web site which cost me an additional [...]. The students do enjoy playing Jeopardy-style review games with it. I also bought the wireless version of Eggspert first which did not work well at all, so I returned it and got this wired version. Just be forewarned that it comes with very short cables. Had I known this I probably would not have bought it.
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