Ravensburger Labyrinth

***Background*** Ravensburger were always more known to me for Jigsaw Puzzles before I saw this game about 8 years ago when I bought it as a Christmas present for my daughter. She loved puzzle type games and as the jigsaws that we already owned were good quality I decided to give this game a go even though I hadn't heard of it before. It originally came out in 1992 and this version is no longer available in the shops although you can still pick it up from Ebay. Don't worry though as this review is still relevant as all that has changed in the new version is the packaging and the name. It's now known as The aMAZEing Labyrinth. There are also Disney, ...  Read the complete review

I first got this game in the mid 90s & after reading review it appears it may have changed a little. Anyway, this is about the original version of the game. Packaging: The games comes in a standard game type box with a picture of an adult & two kids playing the game on the front. On opening the box there's a brown plastic "tray" which holds:- + 34 maze cards + 24 treasure cards + 4 wooden playing pieces + I playing board. The game: When you open the board the first thing you notice is that there are 16 fixed, non adjacent, squares on the board. These are all an equal ...  Read the complete review

This is a very original game, which requires a great deal of thought when playing. I have a re release of this game, and although it looks exactly the same as the picture, it seems apparent that they have changed the winning conditions since the way I play is different to the description. The most important thing to understanding how this game works is understanding how the board works. The board has 16 fixed squares on it with the rest of the squares made up by tiles that are free to move. Each square/tile has a path on it, which can run in different directions, for example it could be a bend, a straight path or a t-junction. When all the squares are on ...  Read the complete review

Little Brother was stretched out on the sofa, he's over 6ft and his legs blocked my path to the washing machine. I was stopped in my tracks by the unnatural and unusual state of things. "Why is the telly off?" I asked accusingly "And why are you... reading?" He replied that yes, he was reading. But it was the Sun and only to look up something that was going to be on telly. I turned to The Boyfriend who was propping up the doorway and adjusting his baseball cap. "You should follow his example and do something that doesn't involve staring at a screen." How to facilitate this was a bit of a mystery, but an hour later we were in Help ...  Read the complete review

I first played this game as a teenager, my grandparents have a copy of the first release (German only). I bought my own copy about 5 years ago, and also bought a copy for a friend very recently. So I'm familiar with three different versions of the game, over the course of fiteen years or so. The game works by having a board with little cardboard squares. The squares form a map - each piece has a section of path and some wall on, and together they form a maze. Some of the squares are stuck to the board, the rest you place on, and there's one left over. This, the player uses to change the shape of the map, by pushing a whole row along. On some of the squares is ...  Read the complete review