Funko Games Indiana Jones Sands of Adventure Board Game | Ages 8+ | 2-4 Players | 45 Minutes Playing Time | Strategy, Adventure, and Cooperative Gameplay | Family Games for Teens and Adults

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If you have been canny during phase one and collected a power token that allows you to ignore the snake (or interrupt another player’s turn or play any card), then this might not slow you down. The names of the movies themselves are not included in the game, though there are some suspiciously similar titles written on the three envelopes. This may take some experience and planning ahead of time, but it is an important aspect to consider for a family game night. But being pedantic, in the film, you kind of didn’t stop him from getting the Ark and he opens it and you win anyways.

Being mindful of overmanaging the Timed Phase is especially important to consider with a mixed age group. Some of these pathways will also require the use of special templates that you can use a predetermined number of times. It’s up to Indiana Jones and his friends to rescue the Ark of the Covenant before it falls into the wrong hands!The majority of the games that we are play are going to take a reasonable number of sessions and playthroughs to fully understand every possibility that they offer. But, just as with Indiana Jones’ most chaotic action sequences, there are a lot of complications with which players must contend. The theme of Sands of Adventure, however pasted on it is, has you and your fellow players trying to defeat the Third Reich before they can find the lost Ark of the Covenant. One challenge that we ran into during the Timed Phase was the tendency to have someone try to manage everyone’s turn. The iconic poster for Temple of Doom is seared in my head as what a real-life action hero would be like.

We always suggest you check out a gameplay video to give you a better understanding of the game as it is played. There are two parts to the game: the gather phase (which is not real-time) and the fight phase (which is real-time! In this race for fortune and glory, two teams are pitted against each other—Indiana Jones versus his bitter rival Belloq! You don’t have to take out the first two to win, but not defeating the first two bad guys puts you at a disadvantage on the the next round: you DO have to defeat Rene Belloq to win! Our promise to you - you can’t lose – join today and if you receive less points back from purchases than the fee you have paid for your membership for 12 months, we will give you the difference back in points.Then it’s the crescendo and theme music kicks in and you’re standing there punching away, knocking chunks off health from the big bad. You must now draw a path using the provided white board pen, trying to avoid the dangers and guide Mr. You are trying to play fight cards and draw cards as fast as possible, but if you ever draw a SNAKE card, you have to roll the red dice until you defeat the snake! Sands of Adventure is a little bit gimmicky and you’ll notice this as soon as you open the box and take out the rather impressive sand timer that looks like its been taken from the set of Raiders of the Lost Ark. And, even if you get squished by a giant boulder, you get to move on to the next scene making it a “fail forward” and I love that in a narrative-based game.