I have to give 5 stars because my 4 year old has wanted to play it every night since we got it and now he just has a few letters he doesn't know. I think we will continue to say that the letter sounds next. Like others, we don't play the way the instructions say. We play like this: I take the popcorn, hold it, if he gets an answer he keeps it. Then he takes the popcorn, if he gets an answer he keeps it. If he doesn't know what it is, I keep it. When one of us gets a POP, he jumps up and downβ¦