Help me find this book from my childhood

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So, around the late 1980s I had this book that was like a puzzle. You are the main character and you start on a certain page and make decisions which determine what page you go to next (turn left p64, or turn right p120). You have to find out the name of a creature to escape the world you’re stuck in, there are pages where you’ve taken the wrong path and you die so must go back to the beginning. There was a forest, a cliff, a jungle. I can’t think of the name and I would really like to get it for my DD.

They were the make your own adventure books

Sorry. Choose your own adventure. List here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Choose_Your_Own_Adventure_books

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure series

www.bookdepository.com/Box-Set-6-1-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Books-1-6-R-Montgomery/9781933390918

Unfortunately you've described the plot of most of the Chose Your Own Adventure books. Narrowing it down might be difficult! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure

Haha, fab thanks! I’ll have to go through them and see. That was quick work, I knew I was asking the right people!

I had a crystal maze book like this, i loved it.

I loved these. Quoted one in my MA dissertation

I had a Famous Five book like this. It was amazing! Had all these dice and things that you used to choose the next part of the story. I think there was also Goosebump books like this, called ‘choose your own scare’ or something like that?

Thanks, my DD loves goosebumps so I’ll look it up. Looking for Christmas ideas already.

Wernt Nancy Drew also like this?

Nancy Drew were mostly straight up YA novels, but I think there were one or two choose-your-own-adventure ones. Never one where she got it on with the Hardy Boys though, much to my disappointment.

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain?

I'm sure there must be Nancy Drew fanfic porn out there somewhere SpoonBlender.

I had a choose your own adventure and generally chose to get eaten by the army ants in the forest.

My daughter now reads a whole bunch of these with dice to determine what happens, but mine were straight forward: go down left hand path turn to page 23, go down right hand path turn to page 64

It could have been one of the Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone Fighting Fantasy series. Full list here

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fighting_Fantasy_gamebooks

I remember buying the first one - think it was The Cave of Time.

Thanks for reminding me!

I remember DB being right into these. DS minigeek would love them, they've just been wishlisted for him. Perfect if DB is looking for gift ideas.

What age do you think these books work for?

What age do you think these books work for?

My daughter was about to turn 9 when she really got into them.

I loved these - I think we collected tokens and got them from cereal.

Yes, eight to nine is perfect age-wise. I've still got a copy of the Shamutanti Hills knocking around somewhere, it's got a lion with a scorpion's tail on the cover.

You are all fab. Christmas presents for my eldest son and nephew have been sorted.

@LaDaronne I'm both certain that you're right, and sure that I'm not going to search for it to find out!