Famous 5 - the whispering island

[stevendoig]

Finally another charity shop find!

Still in its original packet and all the goodies are in great condition.

Will play this the night and let ye ken what it's like!

[stevendoig]

So, after putting 3 picnics in my/the famous five's lunchbox and taking a compass in my rucksack we headed to Whispering Island.

However, I had NO Choice as to who was to do what as that was ALWAYS decided by my special 'Famous Five Dice'.

The only time I ever had a free choice was when I lost my compass and got to guess which reference to turn to rather than place the compass on the book and have the answer revealed to me.

This happened three times and I had to eat a picnic each time as I was wrong.

On the third picnic, the famous five had to go home to Fanny and the adventure was at an end.

[stevendoig]

I had a famous five game book when I was a wee lad which has since gone astray.

It didn't come with any 'things'

And it was more fun

[CharlesX]

stevendoig Famous 5 were always some of my favourite gamebooks growing up. Definitely not because of the quality - I agree with you & your thread, they were pretty average - but because the late Enid Blighton is the coolest author ever! I loved her more out-there stuff like The Faraway Tree books. Possibly not up there with Jane Austen in terms of intellectual work but awesome in terms of storytelling.
  The gamebooks themselves were run-of-the-mill stuff, less intellectual than FF or maybe even CYOA, which didn't have dice and your choices made sense more often. I could just get into one of those dice-abd-plastic-piece things if it were something I enjoyed like Famous 5 or say Asterix, but for no other reason, the football ones would have been like reading a phone directory.

[Peter]

May 30, 2022 19:18:51 GMT stevendoig said:

So, after putting 3 picnics in my/the famous five's lunchbox and taking a compass in my rucksack we headed to Whispering Island.

However, I had NO Choice as to who was to do what as that was ALWAYS decided by my special 'Famous Five Dice'.

The only time I ever had a free choice was when I lost my compass and got to guess which reference to turn to rather than place the compass on the book and have the answer revealed to me.

This happened three times and I had to eat a picnic each time as I was wrong.

On the third picnic, the famous five had to go home to Fanny and the adventure was at an end.

That's an entertaining story!