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In The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game, Sauron’s shadow has fallen across Middle-earth, and the One Ring must be destroyed. In order to complete their daunting quest, players need to work together to help cherished Lord of the Rings characters journey from The Shire to the fires of Mordor, all while avoiding the Eye of Sauron.
This third entry into Ravensburger’s “adventure book” line is broken into eight “chapters” that are experienced over eight different board game “pages”. Each new chapter provides puzzles and challenges that players need to overcome to advance the story. The game allows for flexible play for solo or co-operative family gaming, so players can choose their style of adventure, and each chapter takes approximately twenty minutes to play.
Ages | 10+ |
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Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
Play Time | 20m – 160m |
Designer | Jay Little, Marcus Ross, Ryan Miller |
Mechanics | Cooperative Game |
Theme | Novel-based |
Publisher | Ravensburger |
JamesWood
I've only played it solo but it was a fun experience and an interesting puzzle. I feel like the first few chapters were more challenging (in a good way) but the last few were a little too easy.
larryjrice
FIRST IMPRESSION: So far, after three episodes, this doesn't seem all that interesting a cooperative game. It has some interesting ideas in an ongoing corruption track that you have to choose when to use the ring and when not to as the track will cause you to lose if you go to the end before winning the 8th scenario. There's also some horrible Sauron cards that fire off every few spaces on that track. I'm interested in continuing through to the end, but I don't see myself ever revisiting this one again afterwards.
dr glaze et al
Tentative ratings through the first 4 scenarios, clever and pretty well designed. Many, many user experience & graphic design travesties non withstanding, I otherwise think this is a solid otherwise.