Sshh! Don’t Wake Dad is the latest game sent to us from Drumond Park to review over the holidays. Miss A was very excited to receive this one as she has been wanting to play it for quite some time.
Sshh! Don’t Wake Dad is suitable for 2-4 players age 5+. We opened the game on the first rainy day of the holidays and I was pleased to notice quickly that the game has the potential to be played differently each time you start again.
Dad is asleep in his bed in the middle of the game, and your aim as a player is to sneak past him and get the cake from the fridge. But if he catches you along the way and wakes up then you’re sent straight back to the beginning.
The game starts by sharing the game cards equally between all players, which are then placed face upwards on the table. Each player chooses a colour character and starts on their respective coloured footprints on the board.
There’s no dice in this game, however a spinner is used to determine where you need to move to along the board.
The spinner shows a red, yellow, green and blue section, a plus sign and a pair of slippers. If you land on a colour section, then your character moves to the next available colour square on the board. If you have the same card in your pile then you are safe and nothing needs to happen, however if you don’t own the card then you have to press down on Dad’s alarm clock the same amount of time that is on the square you’ve landed on. If Dad stays asleep then your turn has ended and you can stay where you are, however if Dad wakes up (with a pop) when you have to return to the beginning and start again. The only saving grace is that you then get to retrieve the card from another player that you woke Dad with which may help you on your next turn.
Landing on the plus sign means you get to choose a card from another player to take from them. We were having great fun with this as we were stealing cards from each other quite often. If you land on the slippers then you get to move your character to the space in front of the player in the lead. This works quite well if you are near the beginning of the board and the other players are almost at the fridge.
Sshh! Don’t Wake Dad is great fun and a game can last as little as a few minutes or as long as around ten minutes. As I mentioned each time you play is different which makes it funny and interesting each time. The game does require two AA batteries which aren’t included. Overall with a price tag of £22.99 this game is great entertainment for all ages.
Other games from Drumond Park we’ve reviewed include The Magic Tooth Fairy Game, Rapidough, Logo Grab, Wordsearch Junior, Best Of British, Pumpaloons, Pig Goes Pop, Articulate For Kids
Disclosure – we received the game free of charge but all opinions are our own
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I would creep into their room and their door creeked so it always woke them anyway! I was a terrible sleeper as a child and was always up very early! I still wake up early now and am always up and about from 4am!
Jump up and down on their bed
I always used to scare my mum because she would wake up to see me stood at the end of the bed.
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Jumping on their bed, usually landing somewhere painful…
I would knock on the door and wait for them to come down
From about age 9 i used to take them coffee in bed
By jumping on their bed!
of course, like everyone else it involved jumping up and down on their bed 🙂
I would open my dads eye and poke it haha
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Jumping on their bed!
Jump on them. I’m pretty sure they hated it.
Start jumping on their bed
With a cold wet flannel
Jump on my parents bed
Definitely jumping on their beds
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Open the dog guard and let the dogs up stairs.
We would all run in and jump on them in the mornings
I was a poor sleeper and would always wake them up early. My own little one does that to me now. It drives me crazy. My dad calls it karma
I don’t actually remember, how bad is that! My own child’s favourite way is to climb in the bed beside me and give me a cuddle…. that’s my favourite too :)))
i used to dive on the bed 🙂
I would jump on the bed
Repeat their name from the doorway quietly!
Jumping on the bed-my kids get me back now though
When I was very young apparently I’d go in and prise their eyelids open. I hope mine don’t get the same idea!
Make a loud noise and then pretend to be asleep so they’d think it wasn’t me!!
Jumping on the bed telling them to get up lol xx
Jumping onto the bed.
We weren’t really allowed to wake my parents! We only got in their bed on a Sunday.
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I used open the bedroom door & let the dog into their room & he would jump on the bed and wake them.
Jump in between them
Take the cover from off of them and then jump on their bed XD Good times
I can remember that me and my brother would sneak into their bedroom, go either side and say “wakey, wakey!” Mum always got a shock x
I was and still am not a morning person. My parents would always have to wake me up, yes, even on Christmas day!! My son’s favourite way of waking us up is by carefully climbing onto our bed and whispering ‘can I play on your phone’ at all sorts of crazy times- the worst being 4:30 am -_-
By bouncing on their bed – i hope my kids dont cotton on to this!
Singing songs outside their bedroom door
I’d climb in for cuddles.
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Get in bed with them
My parent’s were always up around 5.30 a.m. every day of the week and whilst an early riser, I rarely woke earlier. Now as a parent, I’m usually up the same time … so much to cram into a day 🙂
Jumping on them in bed!
prob a high pitched scream
Sometimes if my mum had tried to wake my dad up on a weekend and he still wasn’t getting up, she’d tell me to go in the bedroom with a wooden spoon and a saucepan and bang them next to him til he got up!! That was really fun when I was little!
running around downstairs
When I was able to make Tea and Toast for them – it always brought a smile 🙂
Jumping in bed with my parents.
jumping all over their bed
id dive all over the bed
I can’t recall having done so.
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loud music lol
Run in and jump on the bed x
Banging on the wall!
Just running into their room and tapping them I think!
I used to climb up on the bed making a noise
Jumping all over them!
By jumping on my mum and dad’s bed!
When my Dad worked nights, I would just crawl in to Mums bed!
Putting the tv on loud downstairs lol x
play the game crossfire such a noisy game 🙂
By jumping on the bed and yelling in my dads ear….what a horrible child I was!
I wouldn’t have dared!
My mum tells me I used to creep into their room and pull her hair to wake her up ?
Knocking on the door – I’d never dare to jump on the bed!
I used to go downstairs in search of breakfast and set the burglar alarm off. That soon got them up!
Jumping in the middle of them
I never woke them up
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Jumping on the bed until they woke up! I was an evil child… 🙂
I never ever woke my parents up
I would just march in their room and talk to them until they woke up (I was a rubbish sleeper as a kid and I was always up ridiculously early!) Luckily for me my dad was also a rubbish sleeper so he was usually happy to get up with me!
Piling on top of them when they are in bed
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i usually just got in the bed
I usually banged on the door then burst into the bedroom then jumping on the bed.
Turning the tv on.
I didn’t really, I would just get up and sneak downstairs to watch TV 😉
My mum would hear me coming a mile away if I was ever up before her, I’d have to gently wake Dad up otherwise I might have ended up out the window
Shooting them with a water pistol
i have always been a lazy sod in the morning and dont remember waking my parents just being woken by them lol
I didn’t dare – I would have had a whooping if I had
constanly talking to them
I would pull their eye lids up! Then ask them if they are awake! Haaaa
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Blow in their face
jumping up and down on the bed x
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By jumping on their bed
There was a number you could dial on old phones that rang you straight back to test the line, I thought I was hilarious, my mum was less impressed.
I loved jumping on their bed when they were asleep, whilst singing at the top of my voice!
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We’d stand around debating about who would wake up Dad. For some reason, they always seemed to wake up during that time. 😉
Getting the dog to do it 🙂
standing at the side of the bed and saying mummy mummy
Jump on bed
Barge in and turn the light on!
I would not dare wake my parents!
Come to their bed and start singing ;D
I would stand at the door shouting ‘mum’!
running in and jumping on the bed
Sneak in & hide under the bed & make noises to freak them out lol
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Jumping on my parents bed
Bouncing on the bed is always the best way to wake your parents.
By jumping in bed and putting my cold feet on them!!
Just by walking to the bathroom, mum always heard me
it was best not to wake them up
They usually woke me up as they were up earlier than me
Generally a good old yell of Muuuuuum
I use to run in and jump on the bed saying wake uppppp haha luckily my 2 daughters aren’t as bad as me they just come in and say mummy it’s morning time haha 🙂 xxx
Occasionally mum would let me wake dad up with a wet flannel if he was being particularly lazy!
jump on the bed 🙂
JUMPING ON THE BED! and occasionally singing.
By jumping on their bed
Shouting BREAKFAST 🙂
With breakfast in bed, it was normally soggy cornflakes and burnt toast, but we tried
Jumping on them!