Product Features
1 buildable LEGO Dice & 12 Lego microfigures
1 rule booklet
Building instructions
>2 to 4 players
224 pieces
7 years up
LEGO and board game fun that have been combine to achieve the ultimate playtime experience! Lead your troops to the secret temple and block your opponents while avoiding the mighty mythical Minotaur! This is a fun game for the whole family to enjoy. The mighty Minotaur, a mythical creature protects a secret temple hidden deep inside a labyrinth.Be the first to lead your heroes to the temple avoiding the Minotaur and cleverly placing walls to block your opponents.Clear and simple rules make this game great fun for the whole family.2-4 players.For ages 7 years and over.
Opening the Box
What you see when you open the box will be familiar to any Lego fan. There's several clear plastic bags with Lego pieces, a big green base board and two little books. One is the normal Lego construction booklet and the other is the rule book.
Construction
The initial construction can be a little time consuming. The good thing is that once you've built it the first time then you can store it back in the box completed.
The Pieces
As with all of this range of Lego games, the playing pieces are special Minifigures that sit on only one dot, rather than the normal two. There is also the special die which has been created for the range. Unlike the other games however, Minotaurus doesn't use the special system of swapping what appears on the faces. There is also the Minotaur piece itself which is pleasingly big compared to the little Lego people. Then all that's left are the green pieces which are hedges - which don't move during the game - and grey wall pieces - which do move.
The Gameplay
Each player has three playing pieces. The aim is to get them to the center of the maze. In a two player game you have to get two pieces to the center and in a three or four player game you only have to get one. On each turn you roll the die. This will allow you the chance to move one of your pieces 3,4,5 or 6 spaces, to move a wall piece to anywhere you want or to move the Minotaur 8 spaces. If the Minotaur meets any piece when its moving then that piece has to go back to the start.
Overview
As you can see from the description of the gameplay there's really not much to the game. Its been designed for children 7+ and its probably pitched just right for this age-group. However adults will find that there's not much depth to it. I think if it was being played with a group of adult players then it would be good to make the victory condition that you had to get all three pieces to the center. This would allow the game to go on for long enough to make maximum use of the moving walls and moving Minotaur rules. The one rule that I would like clarification on is how close the Minotaur needs to get to a piece to send it back to the start. I was playing that the Minotaur actually needs to have enough moves to sit on top of the playing piece. This lead to the ridiculous situation of the Minotaur's sticking out arms actually being round one piece - but its not being captured.
Minotaurus
