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And certainly NOT full price. Overall, an interesting concept that is perhaps worth the $7 overall price tag you'll see through some online merchants here at Amazon -- especially if you're buying this for a young reader. But the game is also in the shape of the snitch (sort off -- the snitch offered by Running Press is a more accurate design), complete with removable wings, which is fairly cool. It's essentially a Harry Potter version of "20 Questions" and works like this: you think of anything relating to Harry Potter and then answer a series of questions, with the "machine" trying to determine what/who you're thinking of within 20 questions. I don't really get the hoopla surrounding this Harry Potter game. But the questions scroll across the tiny dot-matrixesque screen hopelessly slow, with no way to speed them up (admittedly the slow speed is perhaps ideal for a beginning reader, but with such a large 13+ and even adult audience following these books and films -- not to mention, advanced younger readers -- there should be a speed control option). But I wouldn't spend much more than that.
It really is amazing how much fun you can have playing. This is by far one of the best Harry Potter toys out there. It's perfect to play by yourself or with a group.
The player needs to know all the characters well to be able to play the game for any real length of time. For example, "are they dark." Is the question: dark-haired.
Also, "wings" are fragile; we leave them off of the game. dark as in moody.
dark-skinned. Some of the "comments" made by the game are corny but, it is meant to appeal to a select audience.
The toy is fine and fun for a true HP fan. The wrong character may be guessed, which is frustrating, as some of the questions can be taken more than one way and cause you to answer incorrectly.
dark as in dark arts., etc.
They played it several times and 20Q Harry Potter was only stumped once or twice. One has read ALL the books and seen the movies the other is on his third book. Other than that.lots of fun. It's a great toy to play in the car or waiting quietly. I have two boys. The only "wish" was that the wings were either made of better quality material or permanent.
I am constantly amazed when it comes up with the right answer. The only negative for the 20Q games (all of them, from what I've read) is that you may not feel like you know the best answer to the question it gives you. I will be the first to admit that when I bought it, I couldn't wait to try it out myself. The game throws in some amusing boasts while it's questioning, and that makes it a little more fun. Sometimes it doesn't matter, and the game guesses correctly anyways, other times you will stump the game. If you are a Harry Potter fan, you will definitely get a kick out of this game. Since I have read all the books more than once, I tried to think of the most obscure thing for the game to guess every time I played. It sometimes takes a little more than 20 questions, but not more than 25.
Choose your "answer" with that in mind. My son and I love it. I bought this toy for my son for Christmas, we are both big Harry Potter fans. I have not stumped this game since the first few times I played, and I stumped it then only because I wasn't giving the best answers to the questions. You need to know a bit about your person, place or thing before you choose.
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