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 age.

The main aim of the game is to get four things Harry Potter and his friends need to get to school with - which are pets, lanterns, potions and books. You can play as four different colours which are red, blue, green and yellow or you can choose to play as the actual Lego-ified Harry Potter characters. You move the characters around the board that you make yourself, by throwing the dice and once you get to the places that contain these items you pick them up and wait there until your next turn. The first person to get all of the pieces and back to their dormitory, wins the game.

The big problem of the game, is that it can be quite difficult to set up. If you want to just start and play a board game, I would not reccomend it, as it can take a long time to set up - I found my mum and sister still setting it up after an hour. My sister wanted to play this game with some of her friends, but she had to keep asking me for help in setting it up. The first time you play it, it can also be very confusing and you will have to use the instruction booklet the whole time you first play (which is quite confusing to!)

However, the pieces of the game are well made and stay together throughout the game, which has been my main problem with some of these make the board yourself games, where the pieces just fall off all the time and ruin gameplay. Yet they can be quite fiddly to set up with and annoying at times.The dice is pretty large and easy to see, although the instructions it gives can be difficult as it is not just a 1-6 labelled dice.

I would reccomend this game to anyone who is willing to waste about an hour and a half of set up time, and then another hour of playing the game. When you have this time, it can be quite fun as the game does include a lot to do. So if you have paitence and love Harry Potter/Lego, invest in this game as it is great to play with family or friends.