Secret Code 13+4 board game review
“For months the agents have been preparing for this evening. Tonight is the night the secret mission ‘Amun Re’ begins. The team, made up of four cunning secret agents, breaks into the museum and thanks to their precise calculations cracks the tricky codes of the security installation. Who will be the first to overcome all the security’s laser barriers to get hold of the precious mask of Amun Re?”
And thus begins the children’s board game Secret Code 13+4.
As you may surmise from the game title, Secret Code 13+4 is a game that involves math. Players need to use their math skills to crack the security codes to get past the lasers and into the central chamber to win.
Check out Caleb’s video review of Secret Code 13+4 to see if it looks like a good fit for your children.
Can the whole family enjoy Secret Code 13+4
Secret Code 13+4 is definitely a children’s board game. But it can also be enjoyed by parents as well. That’s not to say that as parents we’re going to pull out this game to play with each other. But we’ll definitely play the game with kids. In fact, we’ve found that Caleb prefers to go up against mom and dad.
As you can see in Caleb’s video review, it’s a very simple game of rolling dice and using math to combine the results into useful values.
As a parent, I’ve really enjoyed watching Caleb’s mind at work trying to calculate different options in using his dice results most efficiently. And I’ve seen him come up with some pretty clever ways to slip past the most lasers that he can on his turns.
And even though multiplication and division are options for calculating values, if your kids are younger and have only learned addition and subtraction, they can still play the game. They may not get past as many lasers on a turn, but they’ll still get to have fun with the game.
Tip of the hat to HABA
Secret Code 13+4 is published by HABA – a prolific children’s board game and toy publisher. With as much focus as we have on family board games, and as many games as HABA publishes, you’d think we would have reviewed a number of HABA games by now. Unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case.
We’ve heard about about the quality of their games for years, so we’re very happy to finally review one of their children’s board games.
HABA toy and games are very focused on children. For example, when looking by age range, the highest you’ll see is “8+” – which means that their variety of games are all well-suited for families with young kids.
Want to know how young?
They have 24 games listed for children ages 1-2 years old!
And in the 3-5 year old range, they have over 100 games. That’s a lot to choose from.
In addition to games, they also have a lot of high quality toys for kids. Check out HABA’s website to see the wide range of toys and games they offer.
The most popular HABA games include:
Thanks HABA for the great work you do in creating fantastic games for fun family play time.
