I brought the game along to a family vacation in the mountains and we set it up one night on the edge of a field, near a wooded area. I was shocked to find several pieces from the game missing (jail markers, bracelet, extra batteries). The only issue I had with it was that a few of the bracelets kept coming apart on the opposite side during the game. To play, each adventurer must give up watching television or video games for the evening and instead head outside at night for a great evening of activity, strategy, friendship, safety, and socializing. They organized it all themselves and my son discovered the game variation cards afterwards so lots more opportunity to play!

Update: I changed my review to 5 stars after the seller reached out and sent my new “redesigned” bracelets. citation needed] Sometimes, the flag holder may not be safe at all, even in their home territory, until they obtain both flags, thus ending the game. Apparently this is the brainchild of a former Boy Scout and current filmmaker in LA, so it’s very cool. The game comes with variation cards for new ideas about how to play that make it easy to fit any size of group or handle odd numbers.

The only reason I didn’t give five stars is because the rules were difficult to understand when it came to people guarding the orbs. Because the ages of the boys were between 9-10 (and my one nephew who is 6), it was a bit unorganized, but the kids got so excited about having everything lit up.

However, about 20 minutes after the start one of the orbs stopped glowing after a fall into the grass.

Additionally, a couple of the light up territory lights moved in their casings and now can’t be shut and therefore turned on, rendering them useless. Our only issue was finding a good place to play for a pretty good sized crowd of kids (about 25) but they had lots of fun! Bought this for my son’s thirteenth birthday and he and his friends played with it during his sleepover party.

Straight out of the box, I was a bit sad to find out that a few pieces didn’t work (I am assuming dead batteries). We invited the families of our kids friends to play a game with us one evening at the local middle school sports field. My nephew’s favorite is, “The Traitor”, where you have one member on your team that is actually playing for the other team. Capture the flag was a huge hit this morning – in fact, it was the most exciting gift my boys received from Santa! They offered to replace the batteries and sent a package of batteries along with 4 new bracelets (even though we needed just 2) for us to enjoy.The orbs had some sort of short in them so sometimes the light would go out or go dim causing it to be hard to find.