For reasons known only to Mother Nature, each area of the country in which our family testers put this product through its paces, experienced prolonged bouts of rain. Needless to say, the weather encouraged playroom reenactments of the story of Noah's ark. Testers took the 44 animals out of the ark, matched them up in pairs, marched them two by two onto the ark, then carefully placed them back in their appropriate place. Once all the animals were loaded in, kids stacked the "levels" of the ark and helped Noah and his wife sail to safety.