If the red player moves three spaces they can land on the yellow player which will send them back to the start.

While moving a player can move in any direction except that they must move in the same direction for the entirety of each die. The first edition of the game was published by Ravensburger in Germany in 1981 under the original name Sagaland. While moving if a player ever lands on a space occupied by another player by exact count from either dice, that player is sent back to the starting space in the village. Enchanted Forest looks like a children’s game and it probably wouldn’t have been something that I would have tried if it wasn’t for the fact that it won the Spiel Des Jahres. This strategy doesn’t really work since it tips off the other players to the location of the item that the King is currently looking for.

I ended up winning the game because I knew one half of the forest and then made a lucky educated guess. Even though I am not a big fan of memory games, Enchanted Forest is probably one of the better memory games that I have played. Even though I don’t think it deserved the Spiel Des Jahres that it ended up winning, Enchanted Forest did some interesting things with the roll and move and memory genre.

This illustrates a problem with the game in that there is not a large enough punishment for incorrectly guessing the location of an item. The player uses both dice separately moving the number of spaces on one die and then the spaces on the other die.

After getting the second card I was still at the castle so I decided that I might as well guess the location of the next card since I knew it was on the other side of the forest. There are a maximum of six playing pieces and each treasure depicted on the bottom of the thirteen trees corresponds to a card.