Cereal Box Games: Cheerios Maze

I have always been amused by the games and activities attempted on the backs of cereal boxes.  I stumbled across one last week when putting a box of Honey Nut Cheerios back in the cupboard.


It's nothing special, but it's not nothing.  There have been thousands of simple mazes on these boxes over the decades.  This one uses numbers to navigate the maze, which is still pretty easy for a grownup to do, but it gives the young eaters more credit than these products normally do.  I actually had a few pauses, as I eyeballed it and found the route.  Backtracking when you hit a dead-end is a step more difficult.  It's almost easier to just start over again and make note of the area to avoid.

So, kudos to Cheerios for a less-trivial-than-usual breakfast distraction.

I thought about cutting out the back of the box and actually placing pieces on it, and rolling a die to make more of a game out of it, but the box had already been recycled.  And just rolling dice wouldn't make it much better, though trying to follow the numbers correctly would have been mildly interesting.

Cereal box games are a whole collectible area of there own, with a lot of old ones being near impossible to find.  There have been some really clever product tie-ins over the years, some with cut-out dinosaurs and other neat pieces.  I will try to remember to cover some of them when I see them come up.