LakeshoreAllowance Game

It is a fun game that teaches about how money is used.

Great way to “play” and learn at the same time. My 9 year old likes it.

I bought this for my 6 year old niece who is having a hard time with counting currency. This game board is set up similar to Monopoly. there is a Home space, when you pass it you earn $3.00 allowance. spaces have actions such as mow the lawn earn $2.25, overdue library book pay 60 cents and lose a turn. Denominations are $1 and $5, nickels, dimes and quarters and spaces such as buy some gum for 45 cents forces using a variety of coins.The bank space is a little confusing for my niece, when you first land on the space you deposit $2 and each time you land on it you are paid interest. because you may not always land on the sqaure you may go the whole game without earning interest so our version is you earn a smaller amount each time you pass the space.She loves the lemonade stand, first person to land on this and buys it collects payments from others for glasses of lemonade each time they land there. It would have been great they had added more of these squares, all the others are really just earn exchanges with the bank-she prefers taking other people's money :)after the first game I thought she didn't seem overly interested until she visited the following week. my brother told me she talked about it all week and on her visit asked to not only play but to be the banker. this is far and away the top game that she requests to play when with us and has asked her Dad to buy her one to play at home.her four year old brother has attempted to play but announces each time he lands on a square where he must pay, "this isn't fun for me", although he does love the monopoly Jr.All in all this has been a big hit

Had this game when my son was small and it really made learning money transactions easier. It worked so well for my son that I bought it again to help my grandson.

Allowance is a board game designed to teach the handling of money and savings to young children. We played the game this evening with our 6 year old twins. The game held the twins interest and they were excited for ten turns around the board or so, which we consider a success. The children have played with coins before and had a vague idea of their worth, but they've never had to incorporate their actual value into play.The only criticism that I have is that the play balance and ultimate goal of the game (to save up $20) is lop sided. Saving up $20 takes way too long! In order to make a deposit in the bank you have to land on the Bank Square. The deposit limit is $2 per person for the whole game (after which you accrue interest, but only when you land on the Bank Square again). However, we all had made ~$20 (from birthday presents, mowing the lawn, losing a tooth, etc.) in our ten turns around the board, but no one had landed on the bank. At that rate, we'd have run out of the game money before anyone could have accrued the interest to add up to $20 (which would require 36 turns of the board, at least). In addition, there are too many ways to make money (including the $3 you get every time you pass the Home Square) and not enough ways to spend it.I would suggest a rule change. Make your first deposit the first time you land on the bank. Then, allow up to a $2 deposit each time you pass the Bank square. This would make for a quicker, more competitive game and more interesting to the young ones and adults alike. It would also sharpen the contrast between getting and spending.One thing that I feel the designers did extremely well, however, was to illustrate very starkly the unfairness and capriciousness of the capitalist system. Only one player can become an entrepreneur (by buying the Lemonade Stand and charging 40 cents each time someone lands on it). The game effectively teaches kids that business success is a matter of luck.The game comes with play money, but to add verisimilitude, we used real money and let the twins keep the change for their piggy banks.

I purchased this for my 8-year-old grandson. We played it TWICE on Christmas night and enjoyed it greatly. We asked my grandson to do all the banking transactions, which kept him busy between turns, and also helped him with learning to make change. The various 'squares' teach how to save, treat yourself, give to charity, earn money, etc. so that there are good lessons besides just the 'math'.

I bought this game for my class. The kids love playing the game and practicing money skills at the same time. I’m glad I bought it.

My kids love this game, both the preschooler and 2nd grader - mostly because they like playing with the money. It is great for math skills, financial skills, as well as the social skills that come with game playing. I also like the relatively short game play - the goal is to be the first to collect $20, which typically happens in about 15 minutes.It doesn't have the depressive effect of most other money games, either, where you can lose and lose and lose some more, maybe even going into debt. If you don't have enough money to pay, then you return to home, lose a turn, but then start over with $3. Every time you pass home, you get an allowance, which usually is enough to keep this from happening.My only irk is that there are no pennies needed (or included). It would be better math-wise to have pennies. In fact, out of 28 squares, only 6 even require nickles. And it would have been more interesting if there were more squares to add variety.