Stratego Board Game

Easy game to learn, challenging to master! What a fun game. I recently played this at a winter retreat with my 3 boys, lousy weather pushed us inside and this game was available. It has been around for a long time and I never played it, looking at the pieces you would almost think it would be really lame and boring. We literally played this game for hours! I ordered the day that I got home. My kids were pleased to see that the pieces were updated from the old "knights and castle" style to new robot warrior style. Regardless the game play is great. My youngest boy is 8 and the eldest is 12, the whole family has enjoyed the game. You will want to add this to your game collection if you love strategy games the way we do, or if you just want a game that is short and has some challenge to it. Worth every penny, listening to my boys play in the other room as I am typing this review.

I played this game as a kid with my brothers and for the price you just can't beat this item. Arrived asap and in flawless condition. Stratego is a 1v1 strategy game, that requires heavy bluffing and deceit to be a master of this game. Risk was always my favorite for group games but you certainly can't always have a lot of people readily available to spend 4-6 hours playing a board game, so I recommend this for small games instead of Risk. Try this awesome board game out with your, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, kids, brothers, and sisters and I guarantee you will have a blast.

Not classic Stratego. Fewer total pieces, which simplifies the game, which makes learning easier but reduces complexity potential simply through possible combinations/options. Plus the numbers are inverted from what I remember...1 used to be the Marshall, I think, reinforced by my memory of the miners as 8s. But now 10 is the Marshall, 3 is the miner, and the rest of the pieces fall in line with strength building as the numbers increase. This should make learning a little more intuitive for new players, but rubbed me a little wrong.This version also adds in unique low-value pieces that add some fun strategy to the game (that I don't remember being in the classic version), but felt cumbersome on the small game board (smaller to accommodate the fewer number of pieces). Overall, it's a good game. 5 stars for Stratego being a great introductory strategy game. Minus one star for requiring the owner to apply stickers to all the game pieces and its deviations from my golden memories of the classic version.

It brought back my childhood and it is an excellent way to spend some quality time with your child and teach him/her a thing or two about strategy, thought process and behavior, believe it or not. It provides also a great comparison with chess and/or checkers and helps the child internalize various strategies, moves and in general sharpen his/her mind. But did I mention that it brought great childhood memories!! That alone is worth every penny.

Love the game, but this set is poorly made. Pieces are not separately painted--there are stickers with the numbers that you attach when you open the set. Within days, several of the stickers were falling off and getting lost. The board also split at the seam in the first week. Cheap, cheap set.

Kids seem to like this game better than the original because it is faster and easier to play. Strategy is not as important any more. It is also harder to maintain due to the Spotter piece. The Spotter lets you remove any piece if you can guess its number. The Spotter lets you win by luck.Setting up the game is more difficult as you no longer have the plastic trays to organize your pieces before you place them on the board. It also made it harder to determine which pieces your opponent still since you could not easily see what pieces you had removed.Initial setup involves placing stickers on all of the pieces. These stickers do not stick well so plan on spending a lot of time trying to determine what the blank piece used to be before its sticker went missing.

Stratego will satisfy any strategy / war freak -- the boyfriend / father / nephew / brother who loves war / strategy games. Half the game is the board set up -- deciding where to place your scouts, flag, bombs, bomb-defusers (miners), and powerful pieces. The other half is figuring out what your opponent's pieces are and how best to neutralize them in order to find their flag. It's deep, cerebral play that will entertain and puzzle for hours.

I have to say I am so impressed with PATCH board games. I bought the game Stratego for Christmas and a piece went missing soon after. I was so bummed since the kids were having a blast playing it. I emailed PATCH (not amazon) to see if I could buy the lost piece. They sent me 6 replacement pieces with stickers, FREE! And it came fast! I'm so happy.