I think I liked this more than my daughters; it brought back so many wonderful memories of my own childhood.  My girls (ages 4 and 5) got to practice their counting, and can follow the rules pretty easily.  The only thing they can't seem to catch onto, is thinking ahead and counting out their other "pegs" to see if they can send another players pegs back "home."  So, I have to lay back sometimes and miss my chance to send them home, too... cause when I was winning all the time, they didn't want to play with me anymore!  Overall a lot of fun, educational enough to help with counting, and the only downside is the little pegs can get lost... and their is not replacement package, so you'd have to buy a new game, or make your own peg.  We are missing one peg, even though we always put it back in the box... we somehow lost one peg.  So, we keep our players to three, instead of four.  Put those pieces in a ziploc bag and you should be fine, as it doesn't have quite as many little pieces as most games.