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The Lord of the Rings Recall Game

Milton Bradley, 1978          

Ages 4-10, any number of players

There are two prints of this game.

1st: On the front of the box undeneath Frodo, you will see a copyright with no date on it and a few sentences on who made this game, etc. Now look at the side of the box above Gollum and you will see a copyright with the date 1978 and a little sentence on who made this game.

2nd: On the front of the box underneath Frodo, you will see a copyright with a date on it. Look at the side of the box above gollum and you will not see a date or anything like the other edition.

 

Review by Dave Watry

 

 

This is a simple child’s game of Memory where there are pairs of various pictures laid out on a table or floor face down, scrambled in 12 rows with 9 cards in each row.  The object of the game is to flip over one card then flip over a second card.  If there is a match, then the player removes them from the playing field and flips over two more cards until two cards don’t match.  Of course, the hard part of this game is memorizing where previously unmatched pictures are placed and remembering where it’s match is.  For this version the pictures are based on the Ralph Bakshi animated 1978 movie “The Lord of the Rings”.

 

Game consists of:

108 cards

Plastic holding tray