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Join a team of fearless adventurers on a do-or-die mission to capture four sacred treasures from the ruins of this perilous paradise
2 to 4 players
Strategic thinking, problem solving and cooperation required
Ages 10 and up
Playing time: 30 minutes

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Dare to discover Forbidden Island! Join a team of fearless adventurers on a do-or-die mission to capture four sacred treasures from the ruins of this perilous paradise. Your team will have to work together and make some pulse-pounding maneuvers, as the island will sink beneath every step! Race to collect the treasures and make a triumphant escape before you are swallowed into the watery abyss! The latest creation by cooperative game master, Matt Leacock who created the best seller Pandemic.

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You and your team can be the first to breach the borders of the Archeans' ancient mystical empire in the collaborative card game Forbidden Island, by Gamewright. In this game, teamwork proves essential to locate the Earth Stone, the Statue of the Wind, the Crystal of Fire, and the Ocean's Chalice as the Island floods beneath your feet. Adventure... if you dare!

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Ages: Ten and up
Requires: Two to four players

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Be the first team to breach the borders of the Archeans' ancient mystical empire
Locate the Earth Stone, the Statue of the Wind, the Crystal of Fire, and the Ocean's Chalice before the Island sinks
Find the treasures through collaborative play and teamwork
Stimulates problem-solving and strategic skills

Breach the borders of the Archean empire to locate the four sacred elements. View larger.

Work collaboratively with two to four players to locate the treasure.
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The Legend of the Archeans

This game is centered on the legend of the Archean empire, a civilization that possessed the ability to control the Earth's core elements--fire, wind, water, and earth--through four sacred treasures. These treasures stayed hidden from enemies for years on the Forbidden Island, which was designed to sink if intruders ever attempted to capture them. Set the appropriate water level for your gaming skill, and let the adventures begin!

Capture the Four Sacred Treasures Before the Island Sinks!

Your team of adventurers must work together to keep the Forbidden Island from sinking as you seek the four treasures hidden within. The mission is carried out using different combinations of Flood, Treasure, and Adventurer Cards on the 24 tiles that make up the Forbidden Island. Once you've captured each treasure using the appropriate cards, you must make it to Fools' Landing and escape by helicopter in order to win. If the island sinks before you complete your tasks, the mission ends in defeat.

Use Collaborative Play to Succeed

Each player is dealt an Adventure Card and given a corresponding pawn before the game starts, designating him or her with a certain set of strengths. This game is designed so that instead of competing with other players, you work to find the treasures and find out how to best use each Adventurer's strengths through collaborative play. This stimulates problem-solving and strategy skills.

What's in the Box

Water level marker, water meter, 58 playing cards, 24 island tiles, 6 pawns, 4 treasure figurines, rules of play, Gamewright catalog, and comment card.

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6.5 x 8.75 x 2.75 inches

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CSG-FORI

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10 - 15 years

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Clever cooperative game - engaging for both kids and adults

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2017

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Wow, what a clever game! I'm so impressed to have a cooperative game that is complicated enough to engage adults and still playable with the kids. Marketed for ages 10 & up, but my 7- and 9-year old play. Since it's cooperative, it's pretty easy to explain a strategy that the 7-year old doesn't get right away. And sometimes the 7-year old explains to us!

Here's a hint to get the kids interested....figure it out yourself first. They don't want to sit and listen to the instructions which are a bit lengthy. I set the game up for multiple players, played each player's part myself to figure out the strategy and get all my questions answered. THEN I had the kids join me. Much easier to explain and work with them since I didn't have to constantly reference the instructions. Super fun.

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Get this game. You will love it.

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2015

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My daughters, ages 8 and 10, love this game, and so does everyone else we've played it with. At first, the game might seem a little complex, but once you get rolling, you'll have no troubles with the rules or order of play. The designers also included a little "cheat sheet" of action options and play order on each player's card.

The object is simple--capture four artifacts and helicopter off the island from the landing site before the rising waters flood the island enough to either drown a character, swallow the areas housing an artifact, or wipe out the landing site, which will prevent your escape. You have a choice from up to six characters, such as a diver, an explorer, an engineer, a messenger, or a pilot. Each character has unique and useful abilities they add to the team. For instance, the pilot can fly to anywhere on the island in one turn. The diver can swim underwater through sunken areas of the island. The engineer can shore up (stave off the rising waters) twice as much area as the others. Very well-developed skill set. Each character is useful and you'll regret not having any of their abilities with you. And, because the game is for 2-4 players, you can't have them all with you. This is a nice touch, too, because you can never tell which skillset might be more useful, and this changes every game due to the changing layout of the island and due to the random nature of the cards you'll draw as you play.

Once you get started, you might think it'll be a simple game and you'll breeze through it. We thought so, and then were swiftly overwhelmed by the flooding island, frantically trying to shore up game tiles to preserve the precious artifacts and landing site before we were lost. A really unfortunate session of flood cards (which represent where the water levels are rising) and the dreaded WATER RISES cards (which mean that each turn, even MORE areas are impacted by the waters AND that areas can start to sink into the abyss and be gone forever), we couldn't even rescue one artifact before being soundly defeated.

The second time we played, we took it seriously. We shored up every part of the land we could, using sandbags and helicopter lifts from the treasure cards to combat the eager water levels. Our pilot and engineer raced across the area while the messenger and diver gathered and exchanged treasure cards. Despite our best efforts, the water levels rose and the island started to sink. We lost entire areas, leaving great holes in our island, and the diver and pilot were frantically trying to get the last two artifacts while the messenger and engineer continued to stave off the inevitable. We felt elated--like we had really accomplished something--when, thanks to a few lucky helicopter lift cards, the four of us made it to the landing spot and

The game gets intense--it is designed to do so. Unless you're phenomenally lucky, your team WILL start to lose ground and you won't be able to preserve the entire island. And that is part of the frantic fun.

Finally, the tiles are well made, with imaginative and evocative names. The artifacts look cool, too. And the game play moves pretty swiftly, so you won't get bored.

In my opinion, this is a can't-miss game. It's rapidly become our favorite, and if your family loves quick-paced adventure games, it may become yours, as well.

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This game is great and bought it because Pandemic is one of my ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2016

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This game is completely cooperative; either everyone wins or everyone loses. You are given a number of actions and you can spend those actions to move, gather artifacts, or save the island.

This game is great and bought it because Pandemic is one of my favorite games. This is a much smaller game than Pandemic, uses similar game mechanisms, and was designed by the same person. Unfortunately for me, I played Forbidden Desert (the sequel to this game) and it was better than this one. This game is still quite good and could easily be used to get players into this style of game before introducing them to Pandemic.

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Overall a fun game

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018

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Played as a 2 player game with my husband. I haven't historically been a fan of board games, but we're trying to get into a few games that can be adapted for family game nights as our kids get older. Cooperative play means we don't get competitive, and no one goes to bed grumpy because they lost. That's important because he usually beats me at everything and I am a sore loser. It's got a decent amount of suspense and gets more exciting as the game goes on. It's probably more fun with more players. The instructions could be written a little bit more clearly, as a few of them are a little vague. Overall pretty fun, and it doesn't drag on for eternity like some board games. It's over in about 10-15 minutes (at least it was for us).

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Fantastic cooperative game that is fun for the whole family

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2018

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I picked this up during the recent tabletop games sale and have played it with my kids (preschool, kindergartner) daily since it arrived. It is a lot of fun and has been a huge hit with both of them; in fact, my son wanted me to play as soon as I got home from work the day after our first game. The cooperative gameplay is really great, because my kids get to celebrate victory (or lament defeat) together. The rhythm of flooding tiles, passing cards, and moving around the island is fun and engaging. I enjoy helping my kids think strategically about the right move -- something my preschooler can't do yet, but my advanced kindergartner can. They get super-excited about shoring up each other's tiles and burst into cheers when we lift off the island.

I think we'll get a lot of replay out of it in the immediate future. Even if it only comes out of the game pile every once in a while, I feel like I've already gotten my money out of it. Well done, Gamewright Games!

Edit: I forgot to talk about what's in the box. The tiles are high-quality and thick; they remind me of the Carcassonne tiles, just bigger. The playing cards aren't as thick as playing cards, but they're sufficient durable (so long as children don't bend them mindlessly). The water meter, treasure tokens, and pawns are all high-quality. The tin (instead of a cardboard box) is a nice touch. In sum, I'm very happy with the production quality.

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Nickt Yorkshire

This game is a must for children and adults alike

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2018

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This game is absolutely brilliant.
The aim - to beat the game!
If you want a game to get your kids collaborating and get the whole family talking to each other whilst developing a collective strategy, THIS IS IT!

Develops reasoning, strategy, verbal communication, persuasion skills and much more.

Game takes about 30 minutes to play

Every new game is very different

We beat the game easily first time and thought it was straight forward. It trounced us the next 2 times - we were more humble after that!!!!

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Luke Eastlake

Perfect for new boardgames and veterans alike

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2016

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This is the game I bring out when I'm trying to convince others of the joys of board gaming.

It's simple to set up, the components are lovely and bright, the rules straight forward and it plays in around 30 minutes.
It's also co-operative which I always find best for new players as there's no chance of them being out of the game after the first few minutes.

However, it's not too simple as to make it unappealing for more seasoned players. Ramping up the difficulty and/or playing one of the alternative island layouts makes this an infuriatingly difficult game that really does require coordinated teamwork to succeed.

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Stevo

Brilliant Co-op Board Game

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2019

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The concept of Co-op Board games has become increasingly popular over the last few years and this is a fine example. The fact that all players have to work together to either succeed or fail put a refreshing spin on the board game genre. Forbidden Island is sinking and it is the players job to retrieve artifacts and escape via helicopter before the Island slips in to the Abyss.

The game comes well packaged in a tin with good fitting lid and the peices inside, whether it be the plastic goal pieces, wooden characters or cardboard board have a quality feel to them. Each player gets a different role to play in the team which lets them carry out certain tasks that others cannot.

I have played this game as a 2 player with just my 9 year old son and as a 4 player with 3 other adults who enjoy gaming and the difficulty can be adjusted to suit all scenarios. This game encourages amd rewards teamplay throughout and towards the end game can feel frantic. This makes actually escaping the sinking Forbidden Island really quite rewarding.

In summary this is a great game which anyone old enough to understand the rules will be able to join in with and enjoy. There are other games in this series which I intend to purchase as they are great value.

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Andrew Guile

Best card game we've played in years!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2019

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This game is fab and the best aspect of it is that you work together to try to collect all the treasure before the island sinks into the sea. You're forced to draw cards each round that makes the tiles you play the game on sink into the ocean. Your characters have special abilities that can counteract that sinkage (?!) or make them better at collecting the treasures. The players work together as their chances of success start to slip away. It's fantastic fun especially if you have kids that get upset when they lose. You win and lose together here so it's more of a challenge than a contest. Each game takes about 15-20 mins.

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Av3n

Excellent co-operative game, great fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2020

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It’s taken us a while to get around to playing it, but once we did, we’re hooked.

This is a clever game that encourages cooperation, which is very handy for those of us with a competitive streak as it transfers the onus to group vs the game.

We’ve played this with a 6yo, 10yo, 12yo and parent. Although the game suggests the player limit as 4 we managed to play with five occassionally, though it might have unfairly influenced the success rate, which can be offset by increasing the difficulty level.

The artwork on the tiles is fantastic, wooden meeples, and great plastic ‘treasure’ tokens. Leave you with a good sense of value for money.

I strongly recommend this game, especially if you’re looking for something to lower the competitiveness between siblings during board games. We’ve already encouraged friends and family to buy their own copies during the current ‘lockdown’ if they can get their hands on it.

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