I bought this game after reading good reports, and as a result of it winning awards. My wife and I, (both in our 30's) have tried to play it twice since, but given up on both occassions without either of us finishing the game. On both occassions, it seems you quickly get to a stage were there weren't many options on how to move.

It states in the instructions you need to decide if you want to through the dice, or rotate around the pyramid, you have to decide before you through. I kept finding myself in the posistion were I couldn't go to any other side of the pyramid because I couldn't produce the right colour crystal, however when I threw the dice, I didn't have the required colour to go up either.

I had removed the green and purple crystals as per the instructions for a 2 player game prior to playing. I ended up going around the bottom again a few times to try and get access to more colour crystals, but quite quickly got fed up of not seeming to progress.

Overall neither my wife or I was impressed with this. Fortunately we bought the Minotaur game at the same time, which is a lot better.

I read and re read the instructions several times, (which are very basic) thinking I might be missing something obvious, but I don't think I have. Definately try before you buy!