And since I can’t just ask you to close your eyes for the rest of the review, I will do my best to minimize anything spoilery but I’m assuming you’ve watched the movies. To play a card, you must match either the symbol or color of the previously played card (4 in total of each). The Pathway tests are where you place a transparent piece of plastic over a card showing a location and marking the starting dot.

One of the puzzles left me perplexed so I used the hint but I doubt I would’ve been able to piece the information together without it.Nothing is destroyed in the playing of the game, so it can easily be passed on and shared with other puzzle game aficionados or 1980s movie buffs. Many of the puzzles were neat to figure out whether it was deciphering a code or solving a riddle and I enjoyed feeling clever when I could piece things together. Even if we don’t like something, hopefully it helps you to decide if it is something that you should find out more about. It looks the part and there’s all these little exquisite nods to the source material that will have any fans of the series squealing with the delight. When a snake card is drawn in the real-time phase, the active player has to roll the red dice and the next player can then only start laying cards if the torch symbol is rolled!

Being mindful of overmanaging the Timed Phase is especially important to consider with a mixed age group. The puzzles come in two broad varieties – A] a set of red boxes, each standing for a letter in the answer and B] a multiple choice set of red words where you have to figure out which choice is correct. Once you’re done you flip over the card and check the back of the journal, losing coins for hazards and missed objectives. Again you set aside some coins as directed by the journal, but then you take the clear pathway screen and a dry erase marker and the appropriate pathway card. It's quite hard to show or say too much with a game like this, but I will keep this review 100% spoiler free, as a large part of what makes this game great is the sense of discovery, and I do not want to spoil that for you.The pathways “represent an action-packed moment of recovering an artifact, fighting enemies, or a death defying escape”. Players still need to lay cards in turn, but now when players stop laying cards they can draw a new action card off the deck…and that might just be the vital linking colour/symbol or another attack card! Almost all of the reviews on Board Game Quest are from review copies of a game provided by the publisher. sculpted figures and original art depicting the beloved characters, exciting scenes, and fearsome snakes of the Indiana Jones films.