The player uses both dice separately moving the number of spaces on one die and then the spaces on the other die. I am generally not a big fan of either genre and yet I thought they worked better together than they do separately. Before gameplay commences, the scene is set by a king wanting to find an heir to the throne, as in his old age he has borne no children. This strategy doesn’t really work since it tips off the other players to the location of the item that the King is currently looking for. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent.

You could play the game where you look through the trees hoping to find the item that the King wants and then heading to the castle. Not knowing off the top of my head what board games came out in 1982, due to the fact that I wasn’t alive yet, I can’t necessarily say that the Enchanted Forest didn’t deserve the award but I can confidently say that the game would never have won the award today.

The game should have made you lose a turn(s) or possibly lose a card that was already won for each incorrect guess.

Your mover may not share a space with another player's mover, but you may move it past another mover, still counting that space. Young children probably won’t be that good at the game though unless they have a good memory since a good memory is key to winning the game. While it is not exclusively a children’s game and adults can have fun with it, I think Enchanted Forest is more of a game to play in a family setting. Knowing half the forest give you an advantage for items you don’t know since you know that they must be on the other side of the forest. Your only punishment is being sent back to the start space which could be seen as a positive if you were headed to that side of the board anyway.The game seems a little outdated as I am guessing that there is another game that has expanded on what the Enchanted Forest did. Change the face-up treasure tile by mixing up all the treasure tiles, replacing them face-down, and turning the top treasure tile face-up.

While moving if a player ever lands on a space occupied by another player by exact count from either dice, that player is sent back to the starting space in the village. This illustrates a problem with the game in that there is not a large enough punishment for incorrectly guessing the location of an item. If the red player moves three spaces they can land on the yellow player which will send them back to the start. While the game has some flaws and doesn’t seem that innovative today, I have to commend the game on doing a good job combining a memory and a roll and move game. Two genres that I didn’t think would work well together actually do and make for a semi enjoyable game.I don’t really see Enchanted Forest being the type of game that hardcore gamers are going to want to play. A player can move in one direction with one of their dice and in a different direction for the other die they rolled. Even though I don’t think it deserved the Spiel Des Jahres that it ended up winning, Enchanted Forest did some interesting things with the roll and move and memory genre. If you have a decent memory you should be able to remember at least one side of the forest which will give you an advantage in the game.

The game is really simple to learn since all there is to the game is remembering the locations of the items and rolling the dice. I think that is mostly because while the game did some really interesting things for its’ time, the game feels kind of outdated at this time.

The earlier Spiel Des Jahres winners have a tendency to be a little outdated though so I didn’t know how good Enchanted Forest was going to be. Even though I am not a big fan of memory games, Enchanted Forest is probably one of the better memory games that I have played. It might be a finalist in the Kinderspiel Des Jahres (Children’s Game of the Year), but I don’t think it would win that award either if it was released today.