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King’s Vineyard

From Apprentice to Head Vintner

The king is looking for a new head vintner for his winery and wants to choose among the apprentices, making three surprise visits at the winery. On occasion of these visit he judges the grapes according to color, sweetness, and length of the vines and dispenses goblets, bottles and barrels as a token of his appreciation. After his last visit the apprentice with the most valuable fits is name head vintner. You hold cards and use them in the phases draw, discard, wilt, harvest, plant, growth and maturing. When the king arrives the display is scored.

First, in a round, all draw cards to hold 6 cards and then you can discard cards, if you want to, but must finish the round with the remaining cards on hand, no further drawing. Then one segment of a ripe vine wilts, unless you can use a watering can. All completely wilted vines must be harvested. Harvested grapes are set in your personal stock. To plant you place one card with the unripe side showing, for growth you must add a tile showing the leafy side. Grapes can ripen before the vine reaches the maximum length, and must ripen when the maximum is reached. When the king is drawn, the displays are scored at the end of the round: You score for ripe grapes and their colors and also for vines of the same length. Grapes that have been harvested only count in case of a tie, otherwise they are of no value.

King’s Vineyard is a very nice family game with a rather unusual topic, a simple set placement game! But keep an eye on the automatic growth and wilting and plan your vines carefully, keep a watering can handy to avoid loss of a vine!

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Sandeep Kharkar, David Haslam

Grafik          : Kevin Keele

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 25,00 Euro

Verlag          : Mayday Games 2010

                     www.maydaygames.com

Genre                    : Tile placement game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : place tiles to score, use cards

Kommentar:

Unusual topic

Topic very nicely implemented

Only English rules

Vergleichbar:

Set placement games, Vinhos and Grand Gru or Toscana for topic only

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