I bought this game for my daughter or her 8th birthday almost a year ago and we've had lots of fun playing it since! I chose it as my daughter is a big fan of Harry Potter and also of Lego, we already had the Shave a Sheep Lego game which we enjoyed. SETTING UP THE GAME: Before you can play you have to build the board (Hogwarts Castle). The instructions to build the board are simple and easy to follow and my daughter was very able to do so on her own/instruct me what to do. Between us it took about an hour. The board can be placed whole into the box so you aren't required to build it from scratch from every time. Although as part of the fun of the ...  Read the complete review

For Christmas my daughter actually asked for very little, with her PSP being her main present and her briefly mentioning that she wouldn't mind getting the new Lego Hogwarts game, of course I would get my baby girl what she wants! The main draw of this particular set was the fact that you not only got to construct a model sized Hogwarts school, which is perfect for my daughter as she has just discovered Lego (at the tender age of 9!) and she is also a self confessed Harry Potter fan, so any merchandise is welcomed in her world, but also that the set is then used (once constructed fully) as a board game, so this really is like getting twice the fun for half the ...  Read the complete review

My daughter, 8, is a dedicated Harry Potter fan, so when she received this on Christmas morning from Santa she was over the moon. The novelty is in the fact that the game has to be built from lego pieces before play. This is a good twist from an average board game, but highly frustrating if you just want to get on with it! The board isn't too hard to construct though and consists of the base, sliding corridor peices, walls and house towers and four classrooms. The instructions are clear and step by step making them easy to follow. There are a lot of pieces and smaller fiddly bits but it took me and her about an hour to get it set up. Although she was quite happy to ...  Read the complete review

I like Harry Potter, I like Lego, I like board games, so when I found this Harry Potter Lego board game, I was really pleased. Unfortunately, being a little old for board games, I couldn't really bring myself to buy it and had to wait until Christmas, when I could legitimately buy it for my younger relatives and force them to play it with me. If you're a fan of Lego, you're probably not going to mind a bit of construction. That's good news, because before you start playing you have to build the board. It took us about 45 minutes to whip up an impressive Hogwarts Castle. The instructions provided are simple and clear. Pictures are used to make it easier for ...  Read the complete review

I bought this game for my 9 year old sister, who both loves Lego and Harry Potter. She's played the Wii version of this game, and as soon as she found out that their was a board game including Lego and Harry Potter, she begged my parents to get it for her. However, it was a pretty reasonable price from Argos, so I decided to buy it for her. You can't play this game by yourself, and you can play with up to four people. The reccomended game time is about 20 - 40 time, and I would say this is wrong as it took my family about an hour and a half to play. The age rating of 8 plus is pretty fair, as I think it would be confusing for anyone younger than that ...  Read the complete review