The Quest Kids – An Interview With an 8 Year Old

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What do you like the most about The Quest Kids?

It’s fun. I like getting items and finding stuff in the dungeon. It’s cool to flip the tiles and move my character. Sometimes I feel like this is actually a dungeon. I also like that you have health so that if you fight a monster and lose, you are not just out of the game. My favourite thing is finishing quests using the cards I collected. That is fun. And finding the quests.

Is there anything you didn’t like about The Quest Kids?

I don’t like helping my brother win. I know that I get cards with bonuses for doing it, but sometimes I help him and then he beats me. Maybe if I didn’t help him he wouldn’t win. But the things you get for helping can be really good, although sometimes I didn’t like what I got.

Do you have a strategy for playing The Quest Kids?

I like to get as many cards as possible before I go to fight things. Once I just went right for the red cards and obviously I didn’t do very good. So now I know I need to collect cards from the other dungeon tiles first. If you are playing this game you should not go for the red cards until you have lots of cards in your hand. You probably won’t win.

We got upgraded components with our review copy of The Quest Kids, but you played with just the standard components as well. Do people NEED the improved items?

I think the improved items are pretty cool. The mousepads (his words, not mine) that you get instead of the main board and the character boards are really nice. I don’t like that they are not as colourful as the main boards. I also liked the thicker cardboard dungeon tiles instead of the card tiles.

Ok, but when you used the standard components (standees, game board, card tiles) did you feel the game