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If you've got a problem, and if you can find him...
This week I was suprised to find in my email inbox, not one, but two desperate pleas for help. It seems that these poor unfortunates had been trying to find a way out of their respective dire situations but no matter where they looked no assistance could be found. They were both about to give up all hope of ever being rescued, but just as things seemed at their bleakest they stumbled by chance across one last shining beacon of hope, a bastion of goodness and truth in the cold unfeeling wastelands fo the internet. My blog. They both had a problem and it seemed I was the only one who could help them: they had aquired board games with missing instructions. I am never one to turn away from a fellow man in need of help, so me and my trusty scanner leapt to the rescue. First I had to scan the rules of Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs for a family in New Zealand: Are you putting lava in the pteranodon's nest? THINK AGAIN. Then I had to scan the instructions for Ali-Ba-Ba's bucking camel from someone who worked in a school and wanted to use it to scare children - how could I turn my back on such a noble cause? I hope those children were terrified. If anyone needs any more help I also own Escape from Atlantis and Ghost Castle. That's the one with that scary glow-in-the-dark skull that drops down the chimney. Brr.
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To date 26 Comment(s)
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(12.1.06 10:42)
When can I come to play Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs?
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(12.1.06 10:44)
If there is to be a 20six LVotD play-off, I DEMAND to be included. DEMAND.
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(12.1.06 10:53)
yes! ghost castle! and I've just found you can get it on ebay for about a fiver. do you have crossbows and catapults ?
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(12.1.06 10:55)
i am putting some sweet lava in your nest, in flagrant contravention of the rules.
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(12.1.06 11:26)
Kate - if we can find two other people we can do it this weekend. That sounded ruder than I intended.
Norah - perhaps we could play by mail? Like chess.
ll - I hope you've seen the error of your ways.
breakup - I do have crossbows and catapults, but it takes longer to set up than to play so I haven't used it for ages. Also, that sounds disgusting.
ghosty - after use of it's anatomically incorrect serated beak.
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(12.1.06 11:30)
Why would the pteranodon rescue explorers? Shouldn't he just bite their heads off with his teeth-like serrations?
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(12.1.06 11:46)
The pteranodon was a fickle master. One moment he could be picking your man up from the start and dropping him right outside the temple, and the next he's pulling you off your hard earned coin and dropping you right infront of the dreaded swamp monster. I still get shivers sometimes.
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(12.1.06 11:52)
Ok, I need to learn to read sentences *fully* before reacting. ('the next he's pulling you off'...)
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(12.1.06 12:08)
I used to have Ghost Castle but now along with so many other board games I used to own, it was given to a charity shop when I got my Master System.
(Melancholy)I wish I had them all back now.
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(12.1.06 12:32)
I still have them all. Except mouse trap because we lost all the pieces.
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(12.1.06 15:36)
There must have been something about you that screamed "Board game owner".
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(12.1.06 16:03)
Ghost castle! I just googled for it, and I had it when I was a kid,
in spain was called "Embrujada" exactly the same game... spoookiooo
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Bambi
(12.1.06 16:33)
Hello!
I was one of those poor lost souls!!
And yes... it was the picture of you clutching the board games and water pistols with a manic grin on your face that made me think, "Yes...this is the person I should email!"
And you were.
SO after I got your very quick and insightful reply, I scampered downstairs to try it out. It was past midnight, and school is 7:45am for me, but never mind! there were camels at stake! And it worked! It worked! I thought i had been give a bodge boardgame at a charity shop but NO!
By the by, the kids LOVE it, though they all continually told me how much it is like "buckaroo"...
One of them was so excited he needed to miss out a game for forgetting how to take turns! The camel is much loved.
HURRAH!
thanks again! You are saviour of boardgame geeks everywhere.
My infant school in portsmouth thanks you!
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(12.1.06 16:44)
Hi Bambi! I'm so glad I could help - haha, and I can just imagine that kid getting too excited ... I get like that when I play games too! Thanks for letting me know how it went - I still haven't heard a word back from that New Zealand family - not even a thank you! I suspect they may have put some lava in the pteranodon's nest and no one has heard from them since.
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(12.1.06 16:57)
I remember escape from Atlantis - and you still have them - amazing....
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(13.1.06 01:16)
You are indeed a latter day saint (although perhaps not a mormon). Your blog makes me happy. I especially like the colours.
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James Oakes
(13.1.06 16:00)
Hello
Why have i only just decoved that Lost Vally of the dinosaurs exist, school failed me...
James
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Bambi
(13.1.06 20:31)
Heheheheh
I am so going to have to make a journey to Toys R Us and get the Dinosaur one. It sounds so awsome!
great blog by the way
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(15.1.06 07:50)
The Camel game reminds me of the first time I saw a similar game, consisting on a bucking domkey - buckaroo.
As a young child I was somewhat "sensative". I read a lot, and, when meeting and developing young friendships, I was somewhat shy and nervious (and still am in some sense).
As an infant School child, the days before the Christams Holidays were commoningly Toys Days - where kids would finish off the school year by bringing in their favourite toys.
Anyway, this child brought in this plastic donkey - and it was left stood for a couple of hours, on a desk, unused, as its owner went round the class trying all the other kids toys.
I, as a 5 or 6 year old, was intreged at what this "donkey" did, but was to shy to ask to find out.
When the lad came back with his friend, i hoovered. When it first bucked - it scared the hell out of me.
Sad or what? _ LOL LOL LOL
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Sarah Gillard
(22.2.07 15:39)
Hi
I have just googled for instructions on how to play Lost valley of the Dinosaurs and I have found you!!! I have just read what you did for a family in New Zealand and would be very grateful if you would do the same for me and my brood!
Cheers and sorry to be a pest.
Regards
Sarah
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