[HPforGrownups] Re: this game sucks

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 5030

Gosh, Heidi, you really need to learn to just say what you think!  : )

Thanks, I was thinking about getting this, but if they don't even get "Muggles"
right, I'll probably pass. Why buy a game if I'll spend all my time seeing
discrepancies and things gotten wrong? Ugh.

--Amanda

heidi wrote:

> My husband is writing this with me:
> we just opened our Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone Trivia Game.
> It sucks.
> In so many different ways.
> First, it's WAY too complicated - a pair of attorneys should be able to open
> a board game labeled "ages 8 and up" and figure it out without reading all 4
> pages of directions word for word.
> Second, whoever decided to entitle one of the "categories" as "non magic
> folk" instead of muggles should have his or her head boiled in one of
> snape's cauldrons.
> Third, the curse cards are made for playing the game with more than 3
> people  - Aaron kept getting "curse" cards for answering questions
> incorrectly (like what house was Terry Boot sorted into) and those curse
> cards rebounded against me because they said that everyone in a house
> selected by the cursed person had to pass their cards to the left - which
> meant that he kept getting my cards! I started calling him "Malfoy" - that's
> my new term for someone who you curse, but the curse rebounds against you
> (like Ron with his broken wand)
> Fourth, they made these "legend" cards but they don't *do* anything.
>
> The questions themselves are fine, and with 3 or more players it would be a
> less ludicrous game, and we're not *unhappy* that we bought it, but we
> expected more - or at least something more coherent.
>
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