Khet: The Laser Game
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Manufacturer: Innovation ToysBrand: Innovention Toys
Product features:
- 2 players
- Ages 10 and up
- 28 pieces
- 1 gameboard
- Instructions
Toys and Games Reviews of Khet: The Laser Game
Customer Review: WAY More than Meets the Eye...
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently purchased this game to explore some new at-home activities for my Wife and I. We spend so much time at work and commuting to-and-from that when the weekends arrive, we never want to leave the house. We sought something that we could enjoy together, indoors, any time of day.
I've always wanted to play strategy games with her, but she's not interested in CCG's, or games like Risk, Axis & Allies, etc. Checkers is far too repetitive for me, and Chess is too hard to teach and understand.
I - like others - was captivated by the fun factor of "lasers" with Khet. But what began as simply a gimmick has become much, much more.
Our first round with Khet was surprisingly short. Unsurprisingly, I won. The second game was equally as quick, but my wife emerged victorious. She'd go on to win two more games. The reason for this is that Khet quickly teaches you that there is MUCH more strategy to bouncing a laser across a small playing field than one might initially think.
The most important reason for this is the fact that each player has their own laser. I wasn't exactly sure how this worked, and had to wait to open the box to actually figure it out. Players "fire" their own laser at the end of each turn, and any piece which is struck on a non-reflective side is removed from play. This requires some diligent thinking, as you not only have to plan the course of your own laser, but must think proactively as to what potential pathways your opponent's laser can take as well. In addition, all of the "setups" provided with the instructions will force your lasers to meet both yours and your opponent's pieces, meaning that at any given point in the early turns of the game, your path could be drastically changed thanks to your opponent. In the early turns, I failed to take my Wife's pathways into consideration, and suffered some humiliating defeats!
The setups of Khet may be an unfamiliar aspect to those used to playing Checkers and Chess, where every game starts the same. However, since your own pieces are vulnerable to your own laser, and it could take 8 turns or more to move a single piece across the map to create a new angle for your laser, the setups allow for faster gameplay and require the need for strategy immediately at turn 1. However, the setups are by no means permanent, and players are encouraged to create their own setups as desired. The [...] website helps this by allowing visitors to create a setup using a Flash-driven application, and then copy HTML code into a website allowing them to "store" their setups (provided they have some sort of private webspace.)
Khet plays fast, but Khet plays hard. In our most recent game, my wife failed to notice how an offensive move by my Djed piece actually changed the path of her own laser, aiming a beam directly at her Pharoah (the "King" of your pieces.) After moving a piece outside of her laser path, her casual expression changed to one of total shock as her Pharoah lit up at the end of her turn. This is the challenge of Khet - one that in my opinion will force players to constantly change their methods and expand their strategies. It's not as simple as it looks, but it's really a lot of fun.
On the alignment issue, it seems to be hit and miss - sometimes my laser hits the edge of an obelisk after just 3 bounces, but other times I've had it hit dead-on beyond bounces. It's not so much the lasers as it is the pieces - some are just more precise than others. Many times however a game is won in 3 bounces or even less, making it a rare - and thus a rare aggravation - that alignment becomes an issue.
I'll be adding the expansions, soon!
**EDIT** I'm not sure why Amazon censored my website above - it's a website FOR the product I'm reviewing... Anyways, to visit it, simply take the NAME of this product (four letters, starts with "K" and ends with "het") and add the DOT-COM on the end... ;-)
Description of Khet: The Laser Game
Khet, The Laser Game, is played on an 80-square grid with a pharaoh and obelisk playing king and pawn, sort of, plus a mirrored pyramid and a wandering "djed," and it's chess-like, except for the lasers firing from the corners and bouncing off the mirrorsBoard Games Toys
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