Crocodile Dentist facts for kids
Crocodile Dentist Travel Version
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| Designer(s) | Robert B. Fuhrer |
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| Publisher(s) | Winning Moves Games USA (present) |
| Publication date | 1990 |
| Players | 2+ |
Crocodile Dentist is a game made for young children, first published by Milton Bradley in 1990. A smaller travel version of the game was released in 1993 and is currently being produced by Winning Moves. The game was conceived by Robert B. Fuhrer, who later created Gator Golf, and many other toys and games.
Gameplay
The goal of the game is to press down on the plastic teeth from a crocodile toy's mouth. If the "sore tooth" is pressed, the mouth will snap shut and lunge toward whoever pulled the sore tooth, and the person who caused the mouth to shut is the loser. The travel version of Crocodile Dentist featured slightly different gameplay, where instead of pulling the teeth out of the crocodile's mouth the players had to push the crocodile's teeth down into its gum (this objective would be used in future versions of the full size game).
In popular culture
A 1993 episode of The Price Is Right featured a blooper involving the travel version of Crocodile Dentist. The game was used as one of the small prizes in the pricing game Pathfinder, and host Bob Barker and model Janice Pennington decided to try it out. Barker triggered the sore tooth, which caused the crocodile's jaw to close on his finger and Barker to yelp in pain.
In episode ten of Men Behaving Badly, the main characters are seen playing the game with Dorothy's ten-year-old nephew.
