The Lord of the Rings : Duel for Middle-Earth | Board Game | Ages 10+ | 2 Players | 30 Minutes Playing Time

7 wonders is the most played game in our house so when they decided to match it with my favourite IP, it was an easy decision. The gameplay is excellent, fun mechanisms which make sense with the theme. Good quality components. Good price too.

First, the quality of the pieces and everything inside is fantastic and well designed for the price (£27.99 at the time of review). The card illustrations are beautiful, and as a fan of LOTR, they are a joy to look at. The game is fun and very repayable. It's a spin on 7 Wonders Duel, so if you enjoyed that, then this only adds to the original. Overall, well worth a buy for any fans of 2 player games.

I played this at Christmas with my son who is a big tabletop gamer and understands all these sorts of things better than I! The first run through of the game was slow and laborious, and required many frequent trips to the instructions. The instructions were not bad, and there is a link to a good video online also, but it's still a lot to process. Once you have played once, subsequent games are much better flowing and quite fast moving. The quality of the board and pieces etc is great, not premium not not at all skimpy and thin plastic/card etc. It's a lot of fun to play, and if you have an LOTR nerd in your house, then they (like I) will enjoy the setting. It says 2 player, but was easy to play on 2 teams of 2, collaborating on the best strategy with a teammate etc. Really enjoyed it, and also enjoyed the compact box size - easy to store!

This is equally as good as 7 wonders duel, if not better. The Lord of the rings theme justifies all the mechanics and the art is beautiful. My wife is. It huge into board games but loves Lord of the rings and she adores playing this.

Game is good and exciting for players of both sides, however the in-box storage is really badly designed, tokens and cards will leave their position and scatter all around the box if you don't put it flat on the shelf.

Great game absorbing lots to think about during your own and opponents go. Endless strategy increasingly strategies are played to impact opponent. Improvements on set up from Duel regular. A short but intense game . Around 30mins. Artwork instant hit for some a grower for others. Definite value for money

Very disappointed - the game looked great so I bought a copy. We started to set up the game and read what little written instructions there were and soon realised that you couldn't really understand the order of events without scanning a QR code to watch a video, or if you had someone who really knows how to play 7 wonders in the room (we don't).I defy anyone without prior knowledge of 7 wonders duel to be able to understand the order of events from the written instructions alone. For instance, it's not clear when you should be drawing cards or advancing the race for the ring - it's just not clear what order the components act in. The minimal rules appear to written on the assumption you've played 7 wonders already, which is pointless. There are no step by step instructions or in-depth examples to explain anything, which for a game of this complexity is pretty much essential.It's outrageous that companies don't write the rules in full to make a game playable anymore. It's just lazy and presumptive. What if no one in the room has a mobile phone to scan the QR code that explains everything? I hate watching videos just to play a game - I want everything I need in written instructions in the box.Maybe one day I'll watch the video when I have the time, but I'm extremely disappointed with how this is presented. So sadly it's only one star for a game you can't really play without watching a video. This happens too often these days with games and it's shameful.

I don't get it. I'm 61 years old and new to board games. Just before Christmas I bought two games, Azul and Ticket to Ride and me and the missus loved them so much that we quickly began to build up our collection with games such as Pandemic and Patchwork. I asked for this game for my birthday, we have played it 5 times and I'm afraid it just leaves me cold. I just can't get enthusiastic about it. My wife loves it, she says she likes it as much as Azul so I guess I shall have to persevere with it for a while longer.