When the next layer was opened there’d be a cheap plastic toy or a lolly or nothing. Back when I was a child sometimes the music stopped on you during a game and sometimes it didn’t. I expect a lot of kids will enjoy making notes each time they find some food for their creature or a star.īecause my brain has a habit of connecting pieces of information that have no relevance to one another (thanks, brain!) this book reminded me of an article I read last week where someone was discussing the differences between Pass the Parcel from the good ol’ days and now. I probably would have loved this part when I was in the age group the book is intended for but now that I’m old it felt too much like homework to me and so I may have cheated, deciding that my magical creature was always going to be awake when the story gave me the option of obtaining their help. There are rules to follow regarding whether your magical creature is awake or asleep which involve searching for its food in the drawings and marking boxes on your Adventure Tracker. If I wound up at the Groundhog Day map again in a future adventure I’d write down each number I followed from it so I didn’t accidentally wind up at the same place so many times more than once. While I didn’t get lost on a path this time I had to return to the map of the castle so many times I felt the urge to scream in frustration. I kept my Boxobullfrog because “weird things in its mouth”! There was no other option for me although this little critter wasn’t as useful to me this time around. On my second adventure I decided to be Hocus with his hair sprayed pompadour. I went from a panel where all I needed to do was choose a number, flipped to the number and found another panel where all I needed to do was choose a number. There were times where I wandered around paths with no story. I ended up on the exact same path in the forest several times and I thought for a while that I was going to be lost forever.

So with my character and creature chosen I took off on my adventure and fairly soon I was lost.

The Legend of Grimm's Woods by Manuro