USAopoly: Harry Potter House Cup Competition - Board Game

Introduction

Welcome to another year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! The House Cup calls for the brightest students to compete in this worker placement strategy game. In Harry Potter: House Cup Competition board game, use gained Knowledge and Magic to learn Lessons and complete Challenges. Players send iconic characters like Harry Potter, Cedric Digory, Cho Chang, and Draco Malfoy out on the game board to enhance their skills. The player to earn the most points for their House will be named the House Cup Champion!

Description

**USAopoly: Harry Potter House Cup Competition** is a strategic multiplayer board game for 2 to 4 players aged 11 and up, where players compete as one of the four Hogwarts houses to win the House Cup by earning the most house points through skill development and completing challenges. Players control three student tokens from their chosen house and engage over seven rounds ("years") of gameplay. Each round consists of sending students to different Hogwarts locations to level up skills in Potions, Charms, and Defense Against the Dark Arts, learn Lessons, and collect Magic and Knowledge tokens. Students face progressively harder Challenges that require skill levels and tokens to overcome, awarding house points and bonus actions upon success.

Additional Information

The game features a rich component set including a game board depicting Hogwarts, player boards for the common rooms of the four houses, student tokens, skill markers, location cards, basic and advanced lesson cards, challenge cards, knowledge and magic tokens, and house point gems. The house point gems accumulate visually in an hourglass display, providing an elegant method to track player scores during the game. Challenges and Lessons require strategic planning and skilled allocation of student "workers" to maximize skill gains, knowledge, and magic acquisition. The gameplay is cooperative within houses but competitive between them, encouraging strategic depth through leveling skills, managing resources (tokens), and tactical placement.
Gameplay typically lasts up to 75 minutes. The game appeals to families, Harry Potter fans, and strategy board game enthusiasts.
EAN for this product is **700304153609** (also listed as 0700304153609).

Package Contents

• 1 Game Board depicting Hogwarts
• 4 Common Room Player Boards (one per house)
• 12 Student Tokens (3 per house)
• 36 Level Trackers (9 per house)
• 18 Location Cards classified as starting, middle, and ending
• 40 Basic Lesson Cards and 27 Advanced Lesson Cards
• 31 Easy and 29 Hard Challenge Cards
• 30 Knowledge Tokens and 25 Magic Tokens
• 240 House Point Gems (60 per house) used to track victory points in an hourglass display
• 1 House Cup Hourglass Display
• 1 First Player Token and 1 Round Tracker Token
• 4 Reference Cards and 1 Rulebook in English