E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Light Years From Home Game cover
2022BGG rank #5,436

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Light Years From Home Game

by Prospero Hall, Brian Kirk

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Players2–4
Time30m
ComplexityMedium-Light
Age10+

About the game

What is E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Light Years From Home Game?

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Light Years From Home Game is a co-operative game in which you play as Elliot, Gertie, Mike, or Greg as they try to find parts for E.T. to create a communication device to contact his home planet. You race around the neighborhood using ramps and shortcuts to avoid federal agents bent on capturing E.T. To win, you must find all the parts of the device and get E.T. to the clearing when the mothership arrives to pick him up. —description from the publisher

How it plays

Mechanics

Cooperative Game

On the shelf

Categories

Movies / TV / Radio themeScience Fiction

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