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Friday Games: Lego Hogwarts game

July 27, 2012 Ticia 9 Comments

Lego Hogwarts review

Last year for my birthday one of the kids gave me “ ,” and they were very proud of it.  The set up is relatively simple if you’re used to putting together Lego sets, it’s the play that can get complicated.

Lego Hogwarts game for young kids

When it is your turn you roll the dice and then either slide parts of the board, rotate, or use the Marauders map to move through walls.

Your goal?  To be the first person to gather all of the homework that you’ve left around the castle and get back home.

 

Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts game review

Once the game is set up the play is about 30-45 minutes long.  Which means it can be a little long for the attention span of Princess, but the boys enjoy playing it.

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It’s a lot of fun to gather the supplies and try to figure out how to best manipulate the board to suit your goals.

 

That being said, it’s also frustrating to almost be to a room, and then have the board completely change on you.

 

On the scale of chance versus strategy, this game is further towards strategy.  You also need to be good with spatial awareness and thinking through a few steps ahead.  All good skills to be learning.

 

If you like the idea of Lego games, but this seems a little long for your kids’ attention span, then I’d suggest some of their smaller games, we really enjoyed the Monster one, it’s a variation on tic tac toe.  That has very quick game play, and I’m sure I’ll be writing more detail about it later.

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Comments

  1. Kelly says

    July 27, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    We've never tried a Lego game. It sounds fun. Maybe I'll look for one for Little J's b-day.
    Kelly at Little Wonders' Days

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    • Ticia says

      July 27, 2012 at 1:10 pm

      We have 3 or 4 of them and really enjoy all of them. I'm trying to be restrained and not pick up more for a while…… TRYING very hard.

  2. MaryAnne K says

    July 27, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    This game looks very cool! I think my kids would use it as more of a dollhouse than a board game, though…

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  3. MaryAnne K says

    July 27, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    This game looks very cool! I think my kids would use it as more of a dollhouse than a board game, though…

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    • Ticia says

      July 27, 2012 at 6:15 pm

      There are certainly times my kids have done that too 🙂

  4. An Almost Unschooling Mom says

    July 28, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    It is hard to resist a board game, especially with Legos thrown in! We have Lego Robo Champs – the children seem to enjoy it quite a bit.

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  5. Christy says

    July 29, 2012 at 12:28 am

    Cool! We have two Lego games and they are always fun.

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  6. Raising a Happy Child says

    July 29, 2012 at 5:11 am

    This sounds very interesting! We got a Lego racing game at a garage sale (that and Lego Creationary together for $3!), and Anna enjoyed playing it with papa last week.

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  7. Emma says

    September 16, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    Ooooh, this looks cool. We have a Star Wars LEGO game that my son loves.

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