Hasbro Family Game Night 3

Mouse Trap - Original - Quick - 1 Human / 1 CPU

I was having a lot of trouble with this achievement and becoming increasingly frustrated by the fact that the CPU or my 2nd controller seemed to always roll the perfect amount to cause me to become trapped and lose.

My solution was to hook up a Turbo controller with the repeat set up on the A button. Since everything in Mouse Trap is triggered by the A button the game will play itself and start a new quick game upon the completion of each game.

After watching some TV for a few hours I came back and found the achievement unlocked. Hope it helps!

Ultimately getting this achievement is purely a matter of luck and patience; the die decides who will win, not you. But here are some tips to speed things up:

Only have one opponent (AI or human, doesn't matter, but AI plays faster so speeds it up a little). You have to trap all your opponents to win, but only one of them needs to trap you for you to lose. Also, more opponents means the game takes longer.

Play quick game. This doesn't speed things up much; as far as I can tell the only difference is that it takes the mad dog out of play, but it helps a little. (Edit: it also removes all of the spaces that make you and your opponent go back, which also speeds the game up. Credit to UKGN Luke for catching that.)

Learn the minigame well so you can build 3 parts at a time when you land on the trap piece spaces. This doesn't affect the outcome at all, but it gets the trap built faster, which speeds the game up. Once you have the parts lined up so that the ball will pass through all 3 traps, hold down the B button to speed up the ball's movement.

Don't bother turning the crank if it won't trap anybody. Just means you have to watch a useless animation that eats up time.

After that it's just a matter of rolling as fast as you can to get the game over quickly with either you or your opponent as the winner. Purely a matter of luck at that point.

If you want to leave the game before you have your 10 wins, be sure to choose "leave to plaza" first or it won't save the games you've won so far and you'd have to start over from scratch.

For those people that don't have a turbo controller and have to beat it the old fashion way, here is a tip to make the game play a little faster.
When playing the mini game if you press B the ball will move faster. This helps when you have your route laid out or just want to get the first piece faster.

**IMPORTANT** - Make sure if you take a break you back out to the plaza. If you don't it WILL NOT SAVE your games that you have won. So either get all 10 wins in one play through or make sure you back out to the plaza, so you don't have to play more games.

Another way to get this quickly without a turbo controller is to manually press the a button yourself. Just get into the habit, I lay down and watched some TV while pressing the a button. Using this method, I got this in 2 sessions of popping in the disc.