Library Labyrinth

Library Labyrinth is a co-operative board game set in a cursed library. A game for 2-5 players takes around 30-45 minutes, while a solo game takes about 30 minutes. The playing space is a grid of 25 octagonal tiles, which can flip to reveal new terrors or rotate to create new paths through the bookcases. 

As with many great stories, this one starts with a curse. Something unnameable is rippling through the spaces between bookcases, causing havoc. Terrible monsters and obstacles are coming to life — the tornado from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is behind you, the Big Bad Wolf round the corner, and you could swear that you just saw a minotaur... 

You start in the centre of a grid of floor tiles, and every tile except your own is in darkness. Twelve of the tiles will release a terror you need to defeat. Six will give you a nice safe shelf in which to safely deposit captured terrors. There are also some rewards hiding in the library, which may make all the difference!

You'll spend the game flipping and rotating tiles, and moving down the lit paths to pick up or re-shelve terrors. You'll also need to watch out for the curse, which is still loose in the library and threatens to undo all your hard work. Win the game by placing six captured terrors into the six different shelves.  Lose in one of two ways — either by running out of time, or by allowing too many terrors to be loose in the library at the same time. 

But how do you do this? Well, if you were trapped in a magical library, who would you call? The BOOKS! You can draw cards from different book categories — Children's Fiction, Classic Fiction, Legends, Historical Leaders, Amazing Lives, and Science. Each card shows an incredible woman with a unique combination of skills. There are 60 characters, each of whom is either a real historical figure or a fictional character from a work of literature.