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Harry Potter Hogwarts

Examination time at the School of Magic

It is exams time at Hogwarts and players represent the four houses of Hogwarts. In this capacity they try to collect all the necessary items as fast as possible to pass all the exams. If you are the one to best use the mobile staircases and secret corridors and are the first to return back to the Common Room after having collected all four items you will win the game.

In your turn you have two actions: First you roll the die and implement the respective action and then you move your pupil exactly one step. Possible actions as result of the die roll are: For 1, 2 or 3 dots you move a stair and a classroom once, twice or three times, or you can turn a staircase or use a secret corridor. From a classroom you take the item in your color that is available there and place it in the Common Room.

Some nice variants for the game are included in the rules: You replace the 1 tile on the die by a red tile and thus bring Professor Dumbledore into play. He starts from the entrance, can move to any adjacent square and shows a secret corridor to each pupil that meets him on the same square. If you replace the secret corridor by a brown tile, Mrs. Norris comes into play, she blocks one staircase. In the variant Magician’s Duel there is a duel when two pupils meet: who rolls higher wins and relocates the opponent’s pupil.

An attractive game – I am tempted to say as usual – with standard mechanisms, absolutely attractive components and cute details like Mrs. Norris the cat. It is fascinating who little it takes to create lot of nice ambience.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 40 min

Autor           : not stated

Grafik          : not stated

Titel deutsch: -

Preis            : ca. 35,00 Euro

Verlag          : Lego 2010

www.spiele.lego.de

Genre                    : Movement game based on book and film

Zielgruppe             : for families

Mechanismen         : roll, move, collect items, relocate board parts

Kommentar:

Attractive components, as in other Lego Games

The ambience of Hogwarts has been nicely transferred

Good rules with good variants

Vergleichbar:

Other Lego games and move-by-dice roll games

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