While this game is a lot of fun I have notes. Some people are complaining this game is too complicated. I had three people all completely drunk play it for the first time and they all figured it out. Though I would not recommend playing with drunk people as they take forever to take their turn and have to take frequent urination breaks.  I would suggest using an egg timer for those fun sponges. My daughter is 5.5 and she figured it out. I mean she didn't completely get the strategy but she knew how to play the first time out. So it's not too complicated. Others have mentioned they don't like when their routes get blocked. Boy so many comments I could make to those crybabies. This is the god damn industrial revolution people welcome to 'Merica. I can't hear you ducks quacking becuase I'm up here soaring with the Eagles. I like the quickness of the game played it four times with friends at a cabin last weekend. I actually think I enjoyed it the least of the five or six people who played and I am still giving it a five star review because I really feel the replay value is there and also like I'm just scratching the surface of some of the complexity of the strategy that can be used.