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Das Elektronik Labyrinth

Find magic jewels and free the magician!

The aMAZEing Labyrinth has turned into Adventure Land! Players enter the labyrinth to free Magician Akata. The evil with Grimelda has banned Magician Akata into the Magic Book. Players are adventurers and move into the maze in order to free Akata with the Magic Key; but to work the key must be completely studded with magic jewels and those magic jewels you can acquire if you hand the items they desire to the inmates of the maze.

As in the basic game you must first slide one path tile into the maze and then you may move your adventurer. If you reach a tile with an item you can pick this item up, but you can only carry one item at a time. When you reach in inmate of the maze, you press buttons on the Magic Book. Early in the game only the button for the inmate you reached in order to learn which item he would like to have; later then buttons for inmate + hand-over or treasure chest to hand over an item or treasure chest, the order button to hand in your order tile or even the button for the Magic Key when you have reached your starting spot with a completely filled Magic Key and now can free the magician.

If you deliver items to the inmates you are always rewarded with magic jewels, but you might also get an extra move or other rewards. Sometimes the magician or the witch will speak to you, which can bring a good or a bad event for you.

The maze game that we like and know has been transformed into a fantastic new adventure game due to the very well-done implementation of the electronic device; the game provides lots of challenges and some intense rivalry, as all can try to find and deliver the items.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Max J. Kobbert, Reiner Knizia

Artist: Joachim Krause

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2011

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Sliding and collecting game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Very felicitous combination of electronics and the labyrinth mechanism

Very attractive components and design

Topic and mechanism go well together

Compares to:

All other games in the Brettspiel + Elektronik series, Das ver-rückte Labyrinth

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0