Storming The Castle Card Game

by Toy Vault

Product Features

• For 2-4 players
• Takes about an hour to play
• Based on the classic Princess Bride movie
• Andventure board game
• Dread Pirates

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: 1582679517
• Item model number: TV77006
• Manufacturer recommended age: 10 - 14 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,949 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Storming the Castle is a fantastic, fun game based on the classic film, "The Princess Bride." Fight man to man in sportsman like combat to beat your opponents to Humperdink's castle to rescue the fair Buttercup from marriage. Make your way through the Fire Swamp, the Ravine, and up the Cliffs of Insanity. Game includes (58) Tactic Cards, (46) Pathway Cards, (1) Castle Card, (4) Standing Character tokens, and Instructions.

Product Description

Heroes! Giants! Villains! Wizards! True Love! Not just your basic, average, everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, ho-hum fairy tale! Make your way through the Fire Swamp, the Ravine, and up the Cliffs of Insanity as you compete to beat your opponents to Humperdink's castle to rescue the fair Buttercup in this officially licensed Princess Bride adventure game!

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Have fun storming the castle..., August 7, 2008

By 

Game Geek "the Geek" (SLC, UT) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

It is very rare that we get pop culture themed games that are actually worth playing twice, I can see this making it to the game table quite often. Though I enjoyed the actual game play, I would have liked to see more movie quotes from this games. I would also like to see a deluxe version. I would have spent another $10.00 to get pewter or even plastic pawns, instead of the cardboard ones that are included in the game.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Needed a little more work before they put this one out, October 13, 2011

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Zambia (United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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Big fan of the movie. (I guess that would be the main reason anyone orders this). Straight out of the box, it feels cheap. The cards are on really light stock and feel fragile when you handle them. The player pawns (card-board stand-ups) don't fit together correctly and will not stand up unless you extensively modify them. We just layed them down on the card/space they were on.

All the cards are based on things from the movie, so there is much fun in shouting out the lines as the cards are played: "The Cliffs of INSANITY!", but that fun goes away pretty quickly. The rules don't quite explain exactly how to play... There are a lot of holes. I get the feeling that they created the game, but when they wrote up the rules, they forgot to include some of the rules they were playing by. An example of play would have gone a long way to help.

If a tile requires an object to enter it, do you discard the item to enter it or just show it? If you discard on your last action, can you move in on your next? If you discard and then get moved by another player, does the play still count? These questions came up over and over in our play and the rules didn't address them. So we had to come up with house rules. So instead of enjoying the game, we spent most of the time trying to decide how the game was supposed to be played.

We used these cards and came up with a fairly enjoyable game, but I'm not sure how much our game has in common with the way it was supposed to be played. But the creators didn't really let us know how it was supposed to be played. If I had downloaded this game and printed it out myself I would have not been disappointed, but paying for the cheap components and loosely written rules annoyed me greatly.

I would avoid this one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beware of ROUS's!, August 5, 2011

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Jeanne E. Gale - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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I bought this as a gift for my sister-in-laws 60th birthday!. She thought it was hysterical, since she and my brother are huge fans of the movie and can quote lines anywhere, any time!. It was a big hit! The first time they played the game, my brother had to tell me he was "Wesley". ! I gave the game 5 stars for it's educational value since it's mostly for people who are into the movie: you have to learn about Rodents of Unusual Size, Giants, a Princess and True Love. However, if anyone has seen the movie only once, it's easy to figure the game out. It's a ton of fun.