
2025Reiner Knizia
Mainly playthroughs and reviews. The Hobbit: There & Back Again is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 17 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 21 recorded sessions, 10 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
The Hobbit: There & Back Again is a competitive adventure game in which players draft dice to make pathways, collect resources, and perform actions that help them to reach their chapter goal. In more detail, each of the players has their own adventure board book open to the same chapter of the game, and they play in turn order starting with the shortest player. That player rolls all of the dice, then selects one, then the next player selects one, and so on until all dice have been chosen, at which point the next player rolls all the dice once again. With your chosen dice, you use a dry-erase pen to mark the current chapter of your book, drafting a path to evade trolls, battle goblins, solve riddles, and pen the best conclusion to each chapter. The game takes players through the eight most iconic challenges faced by Bilbo and the Dwarves in The Hobbit, such as overcoming trolls, goblins, wargs, and giant spiders; reclaiming the treasure of the dwarves; and defeating the dragon Smaug. In the end, you want to complete the most rewarding journey to The Lonely Mountain. The Hobbit: There & Back Again includes a solo mode, as well as a way to increase the game's difficulty, whether for some players to balance different skills levels or for everyone to increase the challenge.
The Hobbit: There & Back Again has 61 videos from 41 creators: 17 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 21 playthroughs, 10 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2025 to September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "The Hobbit: There and Back Again - How To Play" by Watch It Played, which runs 20 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "TDG: The Hobbit: There and Back Again" by The Discriminating Gamer. 17 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "The Hobbit There and Back Again - BGG Solo-Mode w/ Foster the Meeple" by BoardGameGeek, one of 21 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Ra, Rebirth, The Quest for El Dorado and My City, also by Reiner Knizia.
8 of 41
2017Reiner Knizia
2 - 4 players30 - 60 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
The Hobbit: There & Back Again is a competitive adventure game in which players draft dice to make pathways, collect resources, and perform actions that help them to reach their chapter goal. In more detail, each of the players has their own adventure board book open to the same chapter of the game, and they play in turn order starting with the shortest player. That player rolls all of the dice, then selects one, then the next player selects one, and so on until all dice have been chosen, at which point the next player rolls all the dice once again. With your chosen dice, you use a dry-erase pen to mark the current chapter of your book, drafting a path to evade trolls, battle goblins, solve riddles, and pen the best conclusion to each chapter. The game takes players through the eight most iconic challenges faced by Bilbo and the Dwarves in The Hobbit, such as overcoming trolls, goblins, wargs, and giant spiders; reclaiming the treasure of the dwarves; and defeating the dragon Smaug. In the end, you want to complete the most rewarding journey to The Lonely Mountain. The Hobbit: There & Back Again includes a solo mode, as well as a way to increase the game's difficulty, whether for some players to balance different skills levels or for everyone to increase the challenge.
Designer
Reiner Knizia
Artist
Lorenzo Colangeli
Publisher
Office Dog
Mechanics