Our 9-year old daughter has a severe Potter obsession. She has seen all the movies several times over, has read the books and collects Potter-stuff. She recently stumbled upon this Potter trivia game at the Harry Potter experience, where it was obviously sold at a big premium. So we urged her some patience and got her this set from Amazon as a gift to take along on holiday.
It is pretty much a standard Trivial Pursuit set that can be used with the regular boxed game board - that obviously isn’t included given the size and shape of the box. It does however include its own die and strangely enough an extra circle shaped wedge container that can hold 6 non-included triangular trivia reward wedges - though there is no reference to it in the brief instructions.
As such the game can be played alone, or with a few other players without the standard board - where you have to collect 6 cards to win the game.
Alternatively it can be blended in with the standard Trivial Pursuit game and board - which we have done since, where the rest of us get non-Potter muggle questions and where our daughter works through the Potter cards when its her turn (which is not much fun given her expertise). There is a card with brief instructions as well. The only thing that really differentiates this set from the standard trivial pursuit set are of course the questions and the Potter logo on the box and 100 question cards.
The age advise is +12 years but our 9-year old is delighted and reads/plays it very well. However these questions are hard and detailed! I’ve seen each of the movies several times though I haven’t read the books - but I only occasionally manage to answer a question correctly. The point is that there are many questions about specific spells, curses characters and artefacts with, as you can expect, very obscure names. You will need to know these to have some chance of winning.
In fact, while I expected our daughter to have good knowledge about the source material I was stunned about the detailed level of her knowledge. Personally I do have a huge amount of useless knowledge after four decades of a Star Wars fascination but the knowledge that my daughter already gathered about Harry Potter might well go beyond this. She rarely fails to answer a question. And I suspect she will start to learn each question and answer by heart to fill in her blanks.
Anyway this set is highly recommended to any Potter fan, it makes a great gift that they will appreciate very much.
| Product Dimensions | 15 x 7.8 x 15.5 cm; 299.37 g |
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| Manufacturer recommended age | 12 years and up |
| Item model number | 29612 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of Game Players | 2+ |
| Assembly Required | No |
| Batteries Required? | No |
| Batteries included? | No |
| Material Type(s) | Plastic |
| Remote Control Included? | No |
| Colour | Harry Potter |
| ASIN | B075716WLM |
