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1988 Ranked #16,989

The Willow Game

An asymmetric hidden-role adventure game has good characters protect a baby while evil characters search, fight, and capture her. Good forces grow stronger through treasures and allies, creating alternative paths to safety or victory.

Thematic Games Adventure Fantasy

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

11+

Complexity

2.05/5

Rating

5.78

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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In The Willow Game, you play one (or more) of the characters from the movie. Your characters are either Good or Evil.

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In The Willow Game, you play one (or more) of the characters from the movie. Your characters are either Good or Evil. If you are Good, you must try to keep the baby, Elora Danan, out of the evil Bavmorda's clutches and take the child to safety. If you are Evil, you must try to find the baby, capture her, and take her to Nockmaar Castle. One of the Good characters starts with Elora Danan, but the Evil players do not know who. Thus the Evil players move around the board, searching for the Good characters and fighting them in an attempt to capture the baby. The Good characters begin weak, but become more powerful as the game progresses. They move about the board, searching for Places of Power and gaining Treasures which make them more powerful or enable them to free people who will protect Elora Danan, which is one way for them to win the game. The other is to become powerful enough to defeat Bavmorda in combat.

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2–6
Play time
120 min
Age
11+
Complexity
2.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Greg Costikyan

Artists

3
Janet J. Kramer Ron Miller Romas

Publishers

1
Tor Books

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