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Intrigo

Under the Arcades of san mArco

As head of one of the most influential families in renaissance Venice you need to strengthen your influence, because a new doge must be elected. A display of arcade cards, seals and ducats is prepared. In the first phase of a round you choose iplot cards: Each player receives four cards face down, chooses one, puts it down face-down and gives the other ones to his neighbor. This is continued until all players have four cards face-down on the table. Now phase 2 begins, each player in his turn can either play 1 plot card or buy and play an influence card. Both cards are immediately placed on a free slot between two adjacent arcade cards. The influence card is activated an its effect used on one of the two adjacent arcade cards. In phase 3 ducats and seals are given out, beginning at the palace entry. Seals and ducats between two influence cards go the card of higher value, if you receive a seal you upgrade your corresponding Faction card. If you are the first to own 5 different seals or 4 seals of the same color, you win the game.

Sounds like a simple placement game, is basically a simple placement game, but with lots of depth and tactic. You need to keep an eye on your opponents and think carefully about your choice of cards. Money is important and can decide the winner, if you can buy enough influence card to chance the display and influence it to your own advantage. Despite the simple basic mechanism Intrigo is definitely NOT a family game, but a subtly balanced game in which analysis and direct confrontation need to be weighed carefully and used with care.

Spieler         : 3-4

Alter            : ages 13

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Catherine Dumas, Charles Chevallier, Pascal Pelemans

Grafik          : Edouard Guiton, Miguel Coimbra, Nicolas Fructus, Frédérick Condette

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 14 Euro

Verlag          : Hazgaard Editions

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Genre                    : Placement game with cards

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Sprache        : fr en de it es gr

Regeln         : fr en de it es gr

Text im Spiel : no

Kommentar:

Simple basic mechanisms

Lots of subtle strategies and tactics

For experienced players only

Many possible strategies due to two-fold victory condition

Vergleichbar:

Catan Card game and other placement games with scoring neighborhood-relations for results

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