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Pastiche

Bisquit and Black for da VincI

34 paintings of European artists spanning six centuries are supposed to be re-created; you mix primary colors to achieve the palettes by placement of hex tiles.

The painting cards show between 2 and 7 color dots and 7-16 painting points. 132 palette cards show a color and the value of the card; there are primary, secondary and tertiary colors, shades and crème. The palette hexes show 6 dots in the 6 corners and a dot of one or two colors in the middle, all primary colors only.

A starting hex and four paintings as a gallery are laid out. In your turn you place a hex next to one already on the table. Then you can take palette cards. You can take cards according to the combination which the dots on the hex you just placed make up with dots on adjacent hexes, along touching edges and corners. For primary colors special exchange rules apply. When you have collected the colors necessary for one of your own paintings in hand or one of those from the gallery you discard the cards and set the completed painting aside. Then you draw another painting to replace the one just completed. At the end of your turn you reduce your hand to 8 palette cards, if necessary. If you have accumulated the necessary number of points from completed paintings, everybody scores completed paintings, palette cards in hand that could be used for a painting and artist bonuses, if one completed more than one painting by the same artist. You win with the highest score.

Pastiche instantly reminds one of Bazaar, but is a lot more elaborate due to the multi-level exchange mechanisms; a pure set collection noteworthy for its very beautiful components.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Sean D. MacDonald

Artist: Pixel Productions

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2011

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Set collection game

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very beautiful design * several exchange levels * simple basic mechanism

Compares to:

Bazaar and all other exchange games for set collection

Other editions:

International edition with a different cover, rules in 5 languages

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0