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This is great for their personal, social and emotional development as they learn to communicate effectively and be patient. I would be satisfied by the argument, that the board and the covers, add to the theme of the game, yet it has none. Baffled is the perfect example of why you should never judge a book by its cover, or rather, a game by its box.Say another player swaps A and D, now you have to find a way to remember that change, which piece moved to which space, and which pieces were moved in the first place! The aim of the game is to stay in the game longer than any other player by correctly memorising the positions of the twelve hidden symbols. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a game that we all enjoy but I think we may have found one that has been a success. This award winning game includes a board about the size of a Monopoly board; 12 symbol tokens and lids to cover them; life cards so you can keep a close eye on how many lives your opponents have too; plus a Baffled dice.

Lots of truly amazing games with lots of depth are great fun to play but require lots of homework and an equally ‘read-up’ and captivated group of players to enjoy. This could be three fruit, three numbers, three animals, or the three things that are in your colour group.

If you have a good memory, and can keep track of all the swapping around of symbols that has been taking place, then you deserve to be able to regain a life! We love finding new games that are suitable for the whole family so when I was asked to review Baffled by Cheatwell Games I couldn’t wait to get started. Of course, Colt Express is also famous for cardboard 3D cacti that have absolutely no game purpose and act simply as a piece of scenery. Other spaces have bonuses, like the four corner spaces requiring you to find three items in exchange for one of your lives back, or more interestingly, the ‘name two letters’ space, which when succeeded allows you to move an opponent to any space of your choosing.

I plan to include Baffled in a future blog post on 10 great memory games, similar to my recent post on 10 great visual perception games. It’s not all hard work though; when another player is head-scratching over a tricky symbol and pulls off one of the covers to see if they were correct, you’ve all learnt something whether your opponent got it right or wrong (though incorrect answers from other players are always a bonus!

This simply isn’t the case with Baffled; while the strategic depth is still there, none of the extensive rules or difficult introductions are. You don’t shout out the answers – in fact you don’t even need to know them – you simply stand up or sit down to show your choice. One of my favourites is the ‘swap any’ space – if, for example, you knew that Frog was on A and Apple was on F, you could swap the two to make remembering easier.

Memory games can always be fun, in fact, arguably, the worse that your memory is, the more chaos will ensue and thereby adding even more joy to playing the game.Around the edge of the board is a typical board game style path for players to work their way around based on throws of the die. If your memory’s good enough, using these rewards wisely could allow you to cause serious problems for your opponents, especially if you’ve been cunning enough to figure out their weak-points… What’s Good? Baffled from Cheatwell Games, is cleverly designed so that children and adults have an equal chance of winning. I remember vividly a few years back, when I was just starting my now somewhat monstrous board game collection, a friend bringing me for Christmas a copy of Baffled.