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LEGO Hogwarts Game (3862)

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The Harry Potter Hogwarts game is an incredible value at just under $30. First you are able to build the game board, so it's equivalent to a normal Lego set. Then you play! The introductory game play is simple enough and complex enough for both kids and adults to enjoy. My favorite part was listening to the brainstorming that occurs when players (yes, grown ups and kids) realize they can adapt the game in an infinite number of ways. Best toy I have seen to stimulate imagination, cooperation, and creativity. My eight year old son even plays with the board game by himself creating and playing out different Harry Potter scenarios. I'm very thankful the game comes in a box that is sized just right . . . small enough to store in the game cupboard and big enough to store the game board without having to take it apart. I also appreciate the rubber edges on the dice. (No need to roll the dice in the box to prevent damaging furniture!) The Harry Potter Hogwarts game/toy deserves awards and will likely be be one of the hottest selling items during the Christmas season this year!

Note: We also own Creationary. I would recommend it as well. However, if you need to choose between Creationary and one of the themed Lego games, I would recommend trying the themed games. (Pirates, Monster, Pyramid, Race 3000, etc.) Although, we have only tried Harry Potter Hogwarts at this point. We cannot wait to try the others!

My dad bought this for me as a souvenir from Orlando. When we got home the next day, my dad and I got it out of the luggage and started building it. The instructions are great and like all other LEGO sets. The rules are simple and easy to use, yet the game is deep and engaging. The cool thing is the game board changes, so if your opponent is about to win, you can change the path and force them to re-change it. The game involves luck, so kid's don't feel bad about losing. The packaging is sleek and attractive, and the game is fun and easy to store.

GAMEPLAY 9.5/10
FUN 9.95/10
LOOKS 10/10
OVERALL: 9.50/10

This game is great for Harry newbies, fans, or lego fans!

My kids are age 7 and 8. We've had this game for two weeks and I have played it with them non-stop every day! Building the game was lots of fun, but the game itself is even better. Players representing each of the Hogwarts houses race to collect items from four classrooms. But since it's Hogwarts, magical mayhem gets in your way. With each turn, players are able to rotate staircases or relocate classrooms to create obstacles for their opponents. It's great educational fun for the kids to come up with strategies to hinder their opponents while moving themselves along. There is also the ability to customize the gameplay in whatever way you want to make it easier or harder. In addition, you receive special microfigures of Harry, Hermione, Ron, Malfoy and Dumbledore which are adorable. I also love how the gameboard and game pieces are sized to fit perfectly into the box without the need to disassemble much. Definitely one of the best board games around!

We took this game with us to test out on our friends' three boys aged 10, 8, and 4 years old. They are also huge fans of LEGO. The boys ripped open all the plastic bags and dumped the contents in a heap. The 10 year old was the only one to look at the directions but between the 10 an 8 year old (the 4 year old pretty much just watched this step) it took about 40 minutes to complete the game board set up. They kept telling me all about how they had heard about this particular dice and how cool it was because you can change the faces of the dice with a little wrench included. The 10 year old mentioned that his favorite part of this game was setting it up, which is a good thing because his 4 year old brothers' favorite thing to do was dismantle it after each play. The three boys plus my two daughters (ages 4 and 3) sat around getting instructions on how to play the game. It's not very difficult for little ones to play as long as the older ones guide them by telling them that a particular move isn't possible or helping them with strategy. They enjoyed rotating the staircases and I thought it was just a clever idea in general. The second day the 10 year old opened up the game again to announce he had a new set of rules and wanted to try it out. I think the game leaves a lot of creativity open in the respect that it could be played many different ways. Two thumbs up from all the kids.

Length:: 0:57 Mins

Great product! Our 8 and 10 year old boys love it!

LEGO hit a home run with the Hogwart game. They stayed true to the feeling of the Harry Potter franchise and yet the game is challenging enough to be entertaining and fun.

We also own the Minatore LEGO game, but the family enjoys this one far more because of the shifting "staircases" aspect this game has to offer.

The educational part of the game is it has to be assembled and LEGO encourages changing or adding rules as the die is changable and LEGO includes additional pieces to make the game more complex or to use however one sees fit.

Alot of fun! I hope others will enjoy the family time together as much as we do!

We got this as a gift. I am contemplating if I got a good set or not, since the other reviews dont mention anything about the game's base being unstable. I recommend buying a lego plate (you get them for 5 bucks in blue, green and grey colors) to set up the game on top, because after it is set up, when you try to move it some of the pieces break off - yes its easy to fix them, but dont know if they are supposed to break that way or if the set I have isnt fitting right.
Otherwise a decent game for 6-9 year olds, teaches them some strategy. Parents have to be involved to make the game more interesting and the instructions clearly say that the rules can be added/modified.

If you are worried about people saying the instructions are confusing or ambiguous, don't worry. We almost didn't buy this because of some of the reviews ... man, am I glad my oldest son convinced me otherwise. My 6 year old, 3.5 year old, and myself played this for the first time tonight and had a blast. In all seriousness, this was the most fun we had playing a board game ever. It's not all luck either, particularly when you are playing with 3 or more there's a decent amount of strategy (i.e. on some rolls, you have a choice between making the game harder for an opponent vs. easier for yourself). I had to help the youngest with the strategy so that he didn't lose really badly, but within 10 minutes he completely understood the basic gameplay, rules, and goals.

Once the set is built, there are only 2 pages of instructions. Here they are in a nutshell:
- If you roll a number, move staircases that many times then move your character one square
- If you roll a 'rotate', rotate any staircase then move your character one square
- If you roll a 'marauders map', move in any direction one square (even through walls)
- The winner is the one who collects all 4 homework assignments (frog/spider, book, crystal ball, and a potion) of your color and returns back to your corner

That's it really.

The only part that was confusing for my sons was that they sometimes wanted to rotate staircases when they should have been shifting them (and vice versa) ... but with me there to maintain the rules it wasn't really a problem. Plus, the set comes with extra pieces like Dumbledore and Mrs. Norris (the cat) so you can add your own rules (with suggestions for alternatives in the instructions), so I expect this will continue to hold their attention for quite a while.

SO we were walking down the store isles the other day and saw this sitting on the shelf beckoning to us.
WE had bought a smaller Lego game for a summer camping activity and were happy with the set up and the rules so we could not pass this one up.

My almost 8 year old daughter was able to assemble this game herself.

It took a few minutes to grasp how we move about, some things we can or can't do. I think the rulestend to be a bit TOO simple and we end up with a few questions to figure out ourselves.
Of course the games are designed for you to be able to make your own rules, but we ran into a few basic questions here.
Like picking up tiles with people in them??
The game board, pretty nifty actually. how you are able to shift the rooms and corridors around.
It really adds a level of dificulty trying to get in those last rooms when people are moving and shifting cooridors!!
IT was a fun game, this one actually fits in the box without dismanteling the base board. You only need to remove the plates and maybe a high piece or 2.
My 3 year old sat and played with this game for a couple of hours after we played and he didn't end up taking anything apart, it was that "sturdy".

There is an age range of children (and adults) that enjoy Harry Potter. There is another age range of children that enjoy this type of game.

If you enjoy putting your game together before you play or as your play then this is good for you. The game play is fun.

I can't see a 12 year old enjoying this game much as they have outgrown the LEGO part and might be into Harry Potter but not enough to play the game.

For the 7-10 year olds this is a great game. It is even fun for the Harry Potter fan adults.