Enchanted Forest - Children's Treasure Hunt Game | Engaging Puzzle Activity | Memory Enhancing | Ideal for 4 Years and Up

great purchase

Oh my god!! My son loves it!! He is 8 years old, still so much having fun

Perfect gift for kids who love family games! Happy that found it.

I have loved this game since my grandmother introduced it to me when I was eight-years-old.The board and cards are beautifully printed, and the playing pieces make this an above average, intriguing, enchanted memory game.

Ok, this game took me by surprise. I liked it more than I thought I would. The quality--as is true of practically ALL Ravensburger games--is spectacular. I can see this lasting a long time. The detail is also amazing. It is clear that a lot of thought was put into this. The mechanics of the game were much more in depth than I thought it would be for a memory game.For those of you who do not know how the game works, I will briefly describe it. The board has 3 main areas: the town, the forest and the castle. Everyone starts in the town. You are trying to become the heir to the castle/kingdom by being the first to learn the whereabouts of 3 storybook items (Puss' boots, Rumpelstiltskin's spinning wheel etc.) and report them to the castle. The items are hidden under trees scattered about the forest. You get to move about the forest by rolling two dice. If you can land on a tree space with a combination of your two dice (or even just one die) you get to "peek" under the tree to see the treasure there. Now you have to remember all the special items you have seen hidden under the trees so that you can report its whereabouts to the castle. Now, the castle has a "deck" of eleven cards, one for each hidden item. If the top card of the deck has a hidden item that you know the location of, you make your way to the back of the castle to "report" its whereabouts. If you guess correctly where the item is hidden on the board, you get to keep the treasure and a new card is revealed. If you know the new card's whereabouts too, you can roll to guess that one as well. The winner is the one who collects 3 cards first.

This was a favorite game of my children growing up and I know the next generation will enjoy playing on this fun updated game board. I love Ravensburger games and puzzles…they are quality, engaging products well worth the cost.

I picked this one up on sale for half the current price. For that amount it's worth it if you have 4-8 year olds in your game playing group or household and they enjoy memory type games. The quality is good and the rules are simple with variants to make things a bit more difficult for older kids.Overall, it's a memory game with rather simplistic movement on a gameboard to make it just a bit more challenging and throw some luck into the mix. It plays on a multiple path board that has no specific direction you must move. I don't particularly care for boards of this type as most games on such boards favor going back and forth over an area until you've picked up the required item(s) and head for home. At least in this one you have to remember where the item is located, but once you've been to half the trees you can usually win easily by camping out on the "guessing" spot.Gameplay is pretty straight forward. Roll your two dice. Move to a new circle (simple rules let you use each die as an independent move). If it's a blue circle, pick up the tree beside it and look at the picture underneath. There's a card turned over on a stack on a specific board location. If you find the item under a tree that matches the picture on the card you make your way to a specific spot and "guess" where the item is. If you're right, you show everyone and take the card. If you're wrong, you replace the tree, without showing anyone the item underneath, and go back to the start space. The first person to get three matches wins.The game's biggest flaw is that the "guessing" spot is away from everything else so as soon as you head for it it's generally assumed that you know where the item is located. That sometimes makes for a scramble as everyone tries to be the first there to guess. You can use the path to get from one side of the board to the other without making a guess so the older kids will sometimes do this just to throw everyone off.Our 6 year old loves it and has since it was purchased, when she was 4. She's better at it now for no other reason than she can count better and understands the movement requirements. She has a good memory and will often win once she's visited about half the trees but she "beats herself up" if she guesses incorrectly or revisits a tree. She's also good at reading her siblings (ages 11 and 14) and "getting" it when they stumble across the tree hiding the item to identify. She'll use this to try and beat them to the guessing spot.Games played with the "easy" rules and movement typically take us no longer than 30 minutes. It's rare we play more than twice in a row as everyone, but the 6 year old, tires of it quickly. That's why it only gets 4 stars.

Enchanted Forest was one of my wife's favorite childhood games so when I found this set on Amazon a few years ago I decided to slip it under the tree for her. What I didn't foresee was how it has now become a favorite game for everyone in my house to play together! It is simple enough for my 3-year-old to play along as the more competitive older kid, my wife and I strategize the best ways to best each other.The game itself is exactly how you remember the little wooden trees and player icons. It has that great old game smell when you open the box even though it's a new copy. This game will likely still be in our game closet when our kids have long moved on and started families of their own.