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EXIT: The Lord of The Rings - Shadows Over Middle-Earth | EXIT: The Game - A Kosmos Game | Escape Room Game | Help Frodo and Join The Fellowship
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Age Range (Description) | Kid |
Number of Players | 1 to 4 |
Brand | Thames & Kosmos |
Theme | Anime, Movies, Comics |
Material | Paper |
About this item
- An escape room game for the home with an exciting storyline based on J.R.R. Tolkein's beloved series, The Lord of the Rings.
- Join Frodo and the Fellowship on their journey to Middle-earth to destroy the One Ring; can you decipher and complete Gandalf's secret tasks in time?
- Helpful clue cards ensure you never get stuck on a riddle.
- This game can be played once because you mark up, fold, and tear game materials.
- For 1 to 4 players ages 10+; 1-2 hour play time; 2 out of 5 difficulty level
- A 2022 ASTRA Best Toys for Kids finalist
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Product information
Product Dimensions | 5.1 x 1.7 x 7.1 inches |
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Item Weight | 10.2 ounces |
Country of Origin | Germany |
ASIN | B09QF3RTTG |
Item model number | THA692863 |
Manufacturer recommended age | 10 years and up |
Best Sellers Rank | #15,235 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games) #449 in Board Games (Toys & Games) |
Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Release date | June 15, 2022 |
Language | English |
Manufacturer | Thames & Kosmos |
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Middle-earth is in grave danger. Frodo and the Fellowship are on their way to Mordor to destroy the One Ring. But they need your help! Make haste and carry out Gandalf’s secret assignments. Can you buy Frodo enough time to reach Mount Doom?
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WARNING. Not suitable for children under 3 years. Choking hazard — small parts may be swallowed or inhaled.
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Customers find the game fun and addicting. They also say the puzzles are easy enough to figure out with some persistence. However, some customers find the clues difficult to solve and not well telegraphed. They feel the answers require obscure guessing rather than reasoning. Additionally, some complain that the quality of the game is poor and the components are cheap for expected use.
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Customers find the game fun, especially for LOTR fans. They say the series of games are addicting and fun, with lots of extra pieces. Customers also say it's a full afternoon of brain exercise with well-done riddles. Overall, they describe the game as a great starter game with complex clues.
"...and games requiring keen eyes for complex clues, this is a great starter game...." Read more
"Family loves these games. They are engaging, fun, involves creative thinking, and working together...." Read more
"...Some steps were really creative and fun being equally challenging and easy enough to figure out with some persistence...." Read more
"...But overall, it was worth it to spend a fun afternoon with our daughter." Read more
Customers find the difficulty of the tabletop game to be easy, challenging, and satisfying. They also say the steps are creative and fun. Customers also say that the riddles are well done and definitely challenge people to work together.
"...Some of the puzzles were very easy for us because we kinda knew what to look for when it came to Exit puzzles, but others were still surprising...." Read more
"...3 stars because one or two of the puzzles were mildly satisfying and because we made great memories together bonding over how awful the game was...." Read more
"...It was a full afternoon of fun brain exercise! The riddles are well done...." Read more
"These are great gifts! They are a lot of fun and definitely challenge people to work together!" Read more
Customers find the game creative and well-written. They also say it requires creative thinking and working together. Customers also appreciate the good themeing and clever design. They mention the Lord of the Rings theme is awesome.
"Family loves these games. They are engaging, fun, involves creative thinking, and working together...." Read more
"...I thought it was creative and well-written, with a lot of love for LOTR...." Read more
"The game has good theming and is really interactive. However, some of the solutions and their clues are really difficult...." Read more
"...And now adding the Lord of the Rings theme is awesome! Highly recommend" Read more
Customers find the clues in the tabletop game very difficult to solve, not well telegraphed, and obscure. They also say the puzzles in this game are unsolvable without the clue cards, and the solutions make no logical sense. Customers also say they're frustrated by the vague clues and instructions, and find the hint cards do not help.
"...Hint cards often do not help, as they frequently spelled out exactly the parts of the puzzle we had already figured out and not giving any..." Read more
"...However, some of the solutions and their clues are really difficult. I don’t imagine this being fun for 10 year olds...." Read more
"...But I found several of the puzzles in this game to be unsolvable without the clue cards, and the solutions simply made no logical sense...." Read more
"It was an interesting game. Some clues were very difficult to solve...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the quality of the game. They mention that the puzzles are not well constructed, the components are cheap for expected use, and the instructions are poor. They also say that the last four puzzles don't make any sense and are frustrating. Overall, customers feel the game is poorly designed all around and the components can easily fall apart.
"...puzzle components are cheap for expected use--many of the puzzles require fiddly little components which need to be folded, stacked up, rotated,..." Read more
"...But this one had some difficult and non-intuitive puzzles." Read more
"...Poorly created and the game is overall just not fun...." Read more
"...This one was NOT put together well and multiple puzzles did not make any sense to us." Read more
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If you like puzzles, cyphers, and games requiring keen eyes for complex clues, this is a great starter game. I’m definitely curious what the next level of difficulty will be like!
FYI, these are one-time use games. You will, in the process of playing, have to destroy some of the game materials. So be aware that they’re selling a one-time experience.
We have a great time and look forward to another Exit escape room game in the future.
While you don't move around, it is cheaper than the escape rooms and you still have fun.
The idea is that you are additional hobbits who help the main characters by solving various puzzles which insert you into the story of the books/movies. For example, you distract Shelob so she doesn't go after Sam and Frodo, or you search the Prancing Pony for Aragorn to give him a message from Gandalf, before the other hobbits arrive. I thought it was creative and well-written, with a lot of love for LOTR.
The supplementary materials were really cool, including shards of Narsil, little cardboard Ringwraiths and a map of Middle Earth. But a few of the puzzles left something to be desired. We don't mind a challenge, but a "good" puzzle in our opinion is one that points to a logical solution if you look hard enough or think it through, not one with random assumptions pulled out of thin air.
We had to use the hint cards several times, only for them to tell us exactly what we already knew, and ultimately we had to read solution cards for a few puzzles, which made some strange leaps that didn't seem to be indicated by the clues. This is why I'm giving it 4/5 stars and not 5/5. But overall, it was worth it to spend a fun afternoon with our daughter.
Story is insane--I am a massive Lord of the Rings fan and, while I knew this story would be outside of the material covered in the book I assumed that it would at least not contradict that material and/or not completely defy all logic presented there. This was so ridiculous it was almost a parody. Maybe that was the intent? I won't spoil all the details but as a sample of how on crack the story is, at one point it wants you to WAKE UP THE BALROG?!?! Yeah.
Puzzles are not well constructed--other reviewers have mentioned the leaps in logic. Also, the instructions for many of the game components are poor and clues are not well telegraphed. Hint cards often do not help, as they frequently spelled out exactly the parts of the puzzle we had already figured out and not giving any indication about the rest. We both basically checked out early on when SPOILERS they expected us to seuay hetay oxbay. I don't actually think this is a bad thing. In fact it could have been a very good thing IF it was properly telegraphed but you are given NO hint regarding this without using a hint card which just feels like a let down. Apparently, this is a standard proceeded for this company so returning players may be on the look at for it but, for first timers, it feels like a huge cheat.
puzzle components are cheap for expected use--many of the puzzles require fiddly little components which need to be folded, stacked up, rotated, balanced on things, or lined up perfectly. This already imparts a certain annoyance factor but the size and materials used made the components extra prone to fall apart, not lay flat etc, which was extremely frustrating because, even when we had an idea of what to do, it was difficult to manually manipulate the components in the expected way.
Hard for more than one person to do at a time--this was by far the WORST aspect of the game. Because Hunt a Killer was non-linear, we were able to divide up the puzzles and take turns working on the different components and then share clues we'd found or swap puzzles if we got stuck, which made it a great shared activity. For this game, you had to complete each puzzle in order, before moving on to the next. Not only did this prevent you from working on something else if you got frustrated, it also made it really hard to share the labor, since the puzzle components were too small to allow multiple people to manipulate or even really look at them at the same time. There were long stretches of time of one person sitting bored while the other tried to solve things, grabbing pieces back and forth when someone got a new idea and, eventually, fighting over the pieces because of how annoying this all was. We like these kinds of activities because they promote teamwork but this did the opposite.
Other reviews have said this is one of Exit's less good offerings, and specifically, that my specific areas of complaint are handled better in their other titles, but, as there are enough other sources of this kind of thing to try, we probably won't be taking a gamble on the other titles,, at least not for a very long time.