Clue: Harry Potter Edition Board Game Review

The Clue: Harry Potter Edition board game is looking a little lonely as it hits stores with the new movie bumped all the way back to Summer '09, but 'tis the season to curl up somewhere warm with friends and family so we popped open a copy to see if it gets an O for Outstanding. The game is about six of the famous characters (Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna and Ron) one of them has vanished and each player plays pics one of the others to play as you search Hogwarts to find out what happened. It's like the regular game of Clue, with each player finding evidence to solve the mystery, but there's more to it! Like the grand staircase at Hogwarts, the board changes, making it tricky to get around. Dark Forces cards can cost everybody House Points, but Ally cards can defend you. Not only is this a sweet new way to play Clue, the board and cards look fantastic and the new features are a lot of fun - even if you get eaten by a troll! It's a bit disappointing that the game isn't about solving a murder, especially since the final Harry Potter book was so full of dead people you could start a zombie army with them, but it's a great twist on a classic game anyway.

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