The more often players land on these squares, the more difficult it gets to remember where everything is. As well as these, players may also be able to ask others about the locations of certain tiles (or the tiles of certain locations) or have to name two or as many as three mystery tiles/spaces for a reward. A Lifestyle - Food - Travel Blog all about enjoying life with my family of boys in North East England and beyond.

Though in the end, Oskar was the winner with only two lives lost, so he would have won either way even if he had also only had three lives! To make the game for challenging, some of the squares you land on require you to swap two of the covered up symbols around (e. The tiles themselves are very simple images of animals, numbers, and fruit, easy to remember or so you think at first!Set in a penguin school, the 3D board is made up of 5 classrooms, using a unique ‘box in a box’ set up, and players use different flicking techniques to move their naughty penguin around corners and through doorways in the game board to win a fish, while the Hall Monitor tries to stop them. Besides the board, there are 4 playing counters, 12 symbol tiles with matching covers, 28 double sided ‘life’ cards, and one die. This simply isn’t the case with Baffled; while the strategic depth is still there, none of the extensive rules or difficult introductions are.

We love finding new games that are suitable for the whole family so when I was asked to review Baffled by Cheatwell Games I couldn’t wait to get started.Each time you get an answer wrong you lose a life, or if you ask a question and it is answered correctly. The game really encouraged turn-taking and the children also helped each other out when they struggled, which was lovely to see.

It is big, colourful, has large grids with different actions and could be entirely replaced by a custom dice, each face of which carries those action spaces. Game play time can range between 15 and 40 minutes, plus Baffled is cleverly designed so that every player has an equal chance of winning, as its not about your wisdom and smarts, it's about remembering where you last saw the symbols. All the symbol tiles are placed in the centre of the board and the 12 covering pieces placed on top. What with Baffled being as simple a game as it is, the main element of gameplay (board spaces) are an integral part of any strategies or plays an opponent might want to try on. Founded in 1986, Cheatwell Games started out producing board games but has since gained an unrivalled reputation for the design and development of innovative toys, puzzles and gifts.The winner isn’t the person who knows the most but instead it’s the person who tries the hardest to memorise the tiles.