Cheatwell Games Baffled Board Game
- Brand: Unbranded
Description
It can be played with 3 or more players so you have a questioner, answerer and at least one challenger. I remember tearing off the wrapping, only to be met with a somewhat crudely drawn elephant, and the phrase: ‘You’ll need the memory of an elephant! If you land on the symbol square you have to find that symbol by lifting the covering piece, if you are wrong you lose a life. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).
If you guess wrong, you lose a life and have to turn over a card, so that the red side is facing up.
Other spaces have bonuses, like the four corner spaces requiring you to find three items in exchange for one of your lives back, or more interestingly, the ‘name two letters’ space, which when succeeded allows you to move an opponent to any space of your choosing. I really like this game, it was alot of fun to play and it's a game that changes and differs each time you play it.
To sum up: train, a feature of the game, that is also key to its gameplay, and while its design could be simplified to bare bones two-leveled boxes, its look and design sets the wild-west theme of the game and creates an atmosphere unique to it. Around the edge of the board is a typical board game style path for players to work their way around based on throws of the die. If you have a good memory, and can keep track of all the swapping around of symbols that has been taking place, then you deserve to be able to regain a life! My almost 6 year old seemed to enjoy it, my 3 year old didn't have a clue but considering it's aimed at age 8+ there is no surprise!
Another issue – not one that affects my family personally, but one I can see posing a problem for some others – is that a game based mostly on having good memory could be very easy for some, and very tricky for others. The cover art, whilst very funny, simply doesn’t do this game any justice; presenting what is actually quite an enjoyable, challenging game as something very juvenile and ‘above’ the average board game enthusiast.
- Fruugo ID: 258392218-563234582
- EAN: 764486781913
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