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SMART GAMES CAMELOT JUNIOR REFRESH

$49.99
CATEGORY: Brain Teasers, Puzzle Games, STEM
Players: 1 Players
Ages: Age: 4+
SKU: 5414301518716

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SMART GAMES | CAMELOT JUNIOR | REFRESHED EDITION

Like most of my games, it looks deceptively simple. It’s not clear what is invented or designed here. What makes this a great game concept is not what the blocks look like, but which blocks are used in combination with a simple game rule: try to create a path so the princess and the knight can be reunited.

The positions of 4 of the blocks (the towers) are given in the challenge, but the player needs to figure out the correct position of the remaining 4 (bridge and stairways) themselves.

LESS IS MORE

It’s always possible, of course, to make challenging puzzles with a lot of parts and/or complex game rules. But I try to do the opposite. I started out with 12 blocks, but after experimenting with all kinds of combinations, the result was a game with only 8 blocks. More blocks would not have made the game more interesting, only more expensive.

Trying to find the best combination of puzzle pieces and game rules is probably the design element that I like the most. And together with testing out the challenges, it is also the part that takes the most time during the design process.

CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

There are 2 kinds of challenges. For some, it looks like you don’t have enough blocks to create a pathway so you need to make a very efficient bridge. These are the kinds of challenges you would expect from a puzzle with just a few parts:

But for some challenges, it looks like you have too many blocks, so you have to place the blocks in such a way that you use up the extra wood, without it obstructing the pathway. To solve this kind of challenge, you need to think more creatively.

Ages: 4+ | Players: 1 | Challenges: 48

 

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