LEGO Ramses Pyramid: A Great Concept as Players Work as a Team and then Compete

I have never been a big fan of LEGOs. Okay. There. I said it. Actually, I say it to my boys quite often. I’ve just never gotten into the whole building and creating thing with blocks. I’m much more of a story person. The type of person who takes things as they are and does something with them. I like games. I like beginnings and endings.

But my boys. Wow. They are LEGO kids. They can sit for hours working to create the perfect ship or car or robotic destroyer. They have buckets of LEGOs, and about 3 years ago I lost count of the number of sets they’ve received as gifts.

I hate telling the boys that I’d rather not create the next star-warrior-super-engine-jetpack-equipped-fighter with them. Every time I’m asked, I conveniently have to make dinner. Or change a diaper. Or weed the garden. But then I was introduced to LEGO games and, suddenly, LEGOs are my friends. Because with LEGO games there’s a beginning and an end, and even a bit of a story for me to go along with.

A LEGO game is different than the other board games we play. This game has to be built. And its quite complex, really, with lots of little pieces. (This part I mostly let the boys do themselves.) For our LEGO Ramses Pyramid game, players first build the pyramid, according to the instructions, and then the game begins. But don’t think there’s quick construction and its game time. Building the pyramid, just like in Egyptian times, took much longer than a sitting, or a day.

Which is something that makes the LEGO game series so great. Its not a quick game at all. It takes time. It takes teamwork to build, followed by competition to play. And once its built, there are endless possibilities: kids can play Egyptian times, they can create their own games using the pyramid, and, if they’re really daring, they can take the pyramid apart and create it all over again.

Which they’ll do. But when they don’t want to, or when they’re not quite finished creating the pyramid to play the game, they can place the structure into the deep box that the creators ever-so-smartly made deep enough to hold the completed pyramid.

Thanks to LEGO and Flash Point PR for providing a sample game for review. This post contains affiliate links.

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mom of 3 and wife, Julie is a former elementary school teacher and a Public Relations manager. She is the owner/editor of Just Precious, founding partner of Just Centsible, and a team member of Splash Creative Media. Julie is a PTOer, volunteer, elementary educator and that's just the beginning of the list!