Labyrinth is a board game for two to four players, published by Ravensburger in 1986.
Gameplay
The game board forms a maze built of both fixed and moving pieces. The players rearrange the maze to their advantage by moving a row of pieces in turn. Each player has one token, which they move in the maze. The player's goal is to collect treasures in the labyrinth and then return to their own starting position. The treasures appear in the cards that are dealt to the players in the beginning of the game.
The player is allowed to see only the card that shows their current destination. The player has to reveal the card when they reach the destination, and take a new card from their pile. The other players notice when the pile is empty, and then usually try to prevent the leading player from returning to the starting position. Advanced players also try to guess other players' destinations in order to make their proceeding more difficult or try to trap them in dead ends. Three months later, they included screenshots of the game, but ultimately it was never released.
In 2009-2010, the RIT CS department adopted the game for a freshman-level CS project in the Python programming language.
In July 2010, LEGO game Harry Potter Hogwarts (number 3862) was released that follows a similar game mechanic. Each player must collect one copy of each of four items and return to their start position. At the start of each player's turn the player rolls the dice to determine in what way they can change the layout of the board.
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