Time Required for the RPG

Activity:                                              Time required (approximately)
*Character creation                             1- 1.5 hours
*RPG adventures (4 total)                  45 minutes each
*Translation (4 total)                            20-30 minutes each
Moving the "boats"                              5-10 minutes per time (You will need to move the boats approximately 6x)                                                                                    

The absolute minimum:
Create characters, do the first RPG = approximately 3 hours (the activities that are starred)

The whole program: 
If you wish to adopt the whole program,  I suggest that you do this the following way: Have students create characters the Thursday before February break and finish the process the next day, on Friday before vacation. Explain process the Friday after you get back from vacation and then do one of the 3 RPG's every other week. That will take the game approximately 6 weeks to finish.  It is likely that you will need to skip some weeks due to vacations, field trips etc.  In my experience,  the game usually draws to a close 8- 10  weeks after we start.  The fourth and final adventure happens towards the  end of school often during the last week of school.  It is a great activity to end the school year.