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Out of stock | | | WARNING:| CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs. |
| | | Heroes! Giants! Villains! Wizards! True Love! Not just your basic, average, everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, ho-hum fairy tale! Make your way through the Fire Swamp, the Ravine, and up the Cliffs of Insanity as you compete to beat your opponents to Humperdink's castle to rescue the fair Buttercup in this officially licensed Princess Bride adventure game! | | | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 10.0 inches | | Product Width: | 8.0 inches | | Product Height: | 2.0 inches | | Package Length: | 10.0 inches | | Package Width: | 8.0 inches | | Package Height: | 2.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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| | Features | For 2-4 playersTakes about an hour to playBased on the classic Princess Bride movieAndventure board gameDread Pirates
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 7 customer reviews )
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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Have fun storming the castle... Aug 07, 2008
By Game Geek
"the Geek"
It is very rare that we get pop culture themed games that are actually worth playing twice, I can see this making it to the game table quite often. Though I enjoyed the actual game play, I would have liked to see more movie quotes from this games. I would also like to see a deluxe version. I would have spent another $10.00 to get pewter or even plastic pawns, instead of the cardboard ones that are included in the game.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Needed a little more work before they put this one out Oct 13, 2011
By Zambia
Big fan of the movie. (I guess that would be the main reason anyone orders this). Straight out of the box, it feels cheap. The cards are on really light stock and feel fragile when you handle them. The player pawns (card-board stand-ups) don't fit together correctly and will not stand up unless you extensively modify them. We just layed them down on the card/space they were on.
All the cards are based on things from the movie, so there is much fun in shouting out the lines as the cards are played: "The Cliffs of INSANITY!", but that fun goes away pretty quickly. The rules don't quite explain exactly how to play... There are a lot of holes. I get the feeling that they created the game, but when they wrote up the rules, they forgot to include some of the rules they were playing by. An example of play would have gone a long way to help.
If a tile requires an object to enter it, do you discard the item to enter it or just show it? If you discard on your last action, can you move in on your next? If you discard and then get moved by another player, does the play still count? These questions came up over and over in our play and the rules didn't address them. So we had to come up with house rules. So instead of enjoying the game, we spent most of the time trying to decide how the game was supposed to be played.
We used these cards and came up with a fairly enjoyable game, but I'm not sure how much our game has in common with the way it was supposed to be played. But the creators didn't really let us know how it was supposed to be played. If I had downloaded this game and printed it out myself I would have not been disappointed, but paying for the cheap components and loosely written rules annoyed me greatly.
I would avoid this one.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Beware of ROUS's! Aug 05, 2011
By Jeanne E. Gale
I bought this as a gift for my sister-in-laws 60th birthday!. She thought it was hysterical, since she and my brother are huge fans of the movie and can quote lines anywhere, any time!. It was a big hit! The first time they played the game, my brother had to tell me he was "Wesley". ! I gave the game 5 stars for it's educational value since it's mostly for people who are into the movie: you have to learn about Rodents of Unusual Size, Giants, a Princess and True Love. However, if anyone has seen the movie only once, it's easy to figure the game out. It's a ton of fun.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
We are enjoying playing it very much Oct 06, 2008
By Heather J. Lubinsky
"Lady Heather Cassandra"
It is a lot of fun - we are such Princess Bride fanatics and this is fun for the whole family
"Let me 'splain..." Dec 27, 2011
By Sarah T. Penn
"babe in the moon"
I normally do not buy "branded" games because they are often only good for a few plays before they become boring. In any case, my entire family loves "The princess bride". When I saw "Storming the Castle" as a game option on Exodus's shelves there was no question that it would become a Christmas present for my husband who is the biggest "princess bride" fan in our house!
We played "Storming the Castle" for the first time tonight. I am very happy with the durable quality of the cards and the pieces in the box, with one exception. The stand easily comes off the character, which could be frustrating during game play. We avoided the issue entirely by hot-gluing the stand to the character before play. Problem solved.
The instructions were well written for the most part, but left us confused on a couple of instances. But we decided to play the game anyway to see how it would play out. Most of our questions were figured out in this first round of play, we had fun, and laughed the entire time.
After tucking the children into bed, I went online to see if I could find answers the remaining questions about the game. As it turns out, "Storming the castle" was originally designed by Aaron Watson as a different game, but was re-themed to a "princess bride" game by the publisher. The game designer was not involved in the re-themeing process in any way. Most of our confusion arose from the re-themeing.
As far as those pesky questions go... I was able to find the answers, so our second play of "Storming the Castle" will make much more sense... and will likely be a roudy, competitive, all around good time.
4 Stars for a fun family game, it would have been 5 stars except for the confusion surrounding one particular card.
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