LEGO Games 3841: Minotaurus

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LEGO games are highly customizable. For example, the instruction manual provides several different rule variants (jumping over “hedges” by replacing the #3 with a green square) to make the game more challenging. I have even seen others create much larger labyrinths for epic play! There is even a thriving mod community for LEGO games where others can share their ideas on improving, changing, or even making a brand new game. When you get this game, you get more than what is in the box. Add to it with other LEGO pieces, make your own rules, and customize it! And yet, it really was a good time. Both of my little geeks enjoyed it and wanted to talk about it the next day and the day after that. Their desire to actually “play” the game has been trumped by their greater excitement of creating their own labyrinths and rules, however. This is actually an exceedingly fantastic turn of events and I can’t wait to play their labyrinths by their rules. By doing so, they get to be creative and I get to teach them the subtle art of “fairness” and “balance” in game design. Bonus!

The first person to get all three of their figures (or at least, the most figures) to the centre of the maze wins.

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Having more pieces in play means that it’s easier to ‘distract’ the Minotaur – if you only have one piece, the person playing the Minotaur will logically pursue that piece only. For the building enthusiasts among you, part of the fun is that you effectively build the game before you play it.  So imagine a square base board as the starting point – you build up the maze onto this with Lego pieces. Minotaurus on verrattain yksinkertainen peli. Pelaajat aloittavat laudan nurkasta kolmella nappulalla, joista yksi tai kaksi, pelaajamäärästä riippuen, on saatava laudan keskellä olevaan temppeliin. Nappulat — hauskat Lego-mikrohahmot — etenevät noppaa heittämällä 3-6 askelta.

Nopan harmaa sivu antaa pelaajan siirrellä seiniä. Laudalla on valmiiksi irtonaisia harmaita seiniä ja laudan reunoilla on lisäseiniä, joita voi tuoda peliin. Seinillä voi tukkia toisten pelaajien reittejä. Kokonaan toista pelaajaa ei saa eristää, mutta parikin hyvin sijoitettua muuria tuo matkaan lisäpituutta mukavasti. The dice has interchangeable pieces, meaning that you can mix the rules up. Perhaps you will decide to only move walls and not hedges or vice versa. This means that no two games will ever be the same. Robo Champ \ 3836 Magikus \ 3837 Monster 4 \ 3838 Lava Dragon \ 3839 Race 3000 \ 3840 Pirate Code \ 3841 Minotaurus \ 3842 Lunar Command \ 3843 Ramses Pyramid \ 3844 Creationary In the case of this game, the building is fairly straight forward – you are building low walls around the sides of the board, and some walls inside the board, which form the maze itself. As the Minotaur, you capture another figure by moving so that your go would include going over the space that the figure is on.  When another player throws grey, they can take over being Minotaur, and move it from where it stopped on the board (rather than having to start from the centre again).Another factor Junior Player really liked was the permission to make up your own rules. If you want to adjust it so that e.g. throwing a 6 two times in a row gets you further, or gives you a penalty, for example, you can – or really whatever you fancy. The centre has a raised area – this is where the Minotaur figure is at the start of the game, and where you want to get to.  The game will allow up to 4 players – each starts from a different corner – but it works fine with just 2. When the Minotaur is in play, you get to move 8 spaces – so you’re moving faster than the other pieces, effectively.  You move from the central section, and can move towards any of the figures which may be approaching. Nopassa on myös musta sivu, joka saa minotaurukseen vauhtia. Minotaurus aloittaa laudan keskeltä ja liikkuu joka kerta kahdeksan askelta. Mikäli minotaurus kohtaa nappulan, nappula joutuu palaamaan alkuun ja minotaurus loikkaa taas laudan keskelle.

Part of the cleverness of the game is that you can also move sections of the walls about – adjusting the walls of the maze slightly so that they can be jumped over, instead of having to go round them.

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The figures you move through the game are small, so this can be a little fiddly, but is fine once you get going.