Crystal Maze Adventure Book

by Dave Morris, Jamie Thomson

Allows the reader to play the top-rating C4 TV show "The Crystal Maze". Following the game show format of four zones, medieval, futuristic, Aztec jungle and industrial, this book takes the reader through the zones to reach the crystal dome.

Genres: Gamebooks

160 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 1991

Reviews

[Dane Barrett · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun adventure gamebook based loosely on the TV show of the same name. I say loosely because this book is not a collection of puzzles that may or may not be from the show, but rather an interactive adventure book set in the future where the reader takes on the role of a team of Crystal Maze TV contestants making their way through a futuristic version of the show.
The book is well-written, and the puzzles are very challenging, but satisfying to defeat. The book has some replayability too as you can only do four puzzles/games from each section of the Crystal Maze, so you could play again and do the other puzzles you missed out on last time.
There are some unfortunate errors in the book (a couple of references point to the wrong places, and I discovered at least two orphaned passages; there is even an ending where you don't get any Crystals at all, but that one hasn't been appropriately linked to the final passage). So it's a fun book, as long as you don't go in expecting it to be something that it isn't.