Hi tom.
heroes of the maze was incredibly cool, though I haven't found any
references to it since (even on wikipedia). It was indeed quite surprising
that a specialist boarding school would have such a game, and is one of the
few good memories I have of that school when i was 9-10.
Then again as I said, it was a very accessible game. About the only problems
were A, distinguishing the peaces since all the knight peaces looked the
same but were different colours (okay for me but not for totally blind
players), and also finding your peace later since the game didn't have
squares, you just moved until you got to a moveable wall then turned the
spinner to try and move the wall out of the way, with dice rolls giving you
numbered turns of the spinner.
Keeping your peaces position could be done fairly easily with blue tack
under each knight or under the ogre if you were controlling him.
It was a fairly simple game, indeed I don't fully remember the combat rules
but remember they basically took one dice roll (it was something like
rolling a sword for win, shield for draw and blank for loss), but it played
really well and was quite unique as board games go, especially at that
school since the only other games they had were the standard stuff like
monopoly, ludo, snakes and ladders, braille packs of cards etc.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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