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Im Schatten des Throns
Bard, king, general ....
Four secret organizations want to rule the Old Kingdom and control courtiers. There are nine cards each for nine characters and a game-end card to begin the discard pile.
The active player turns up maximum five cards, one by one, and decides after each card if he wants to continue or to collect the revealed cards or to swap them. When the last revealed card has, or gets - due to use of a card ability - the same value as the previously drawn card, the active player can destroy a card of another player or even of himself. When you draw a card of higher value than the previously drawn card, your turn ends instantly and you discard all cards drawn so far. When the draw pile is empty, you shuffle the discard pile with the game-end card for a new draw pile.
If you want to collect cards, you place all revealed cards on the table, sorted by type, maximum five types of cards and maximum five cards per type, surplus cards are discarded. If you want to swap, you give all revealed cards to another player and take one of his from the table. Special abilities of cards - Manipulative, Protective and Prohibitive - can be used, if you hold the majority in this type. Manipulative changes card values, Protective reduces loss of cards from swapping or destruction, Prohibitive - from King and Queen - relate to swapping and destruction in relation to the number of Kings and Queens in the stacks of the active player. When the game-end card appears, you score stacks of two or more cards and win with most points.
Simple basic mechanisms with a bit of tactic in using the card abilities, basically set collecting with Stop or Go!
Players: 2-4
Age: 8+
Time: 20+
Designer: Oleksandr Nevskiy, Oleg Sidorenko
Artist: Denys Martynets, Leonid Androschuk
Price: ca. 13 Euro
Publisher: 2Geeks / IGames 2016
Web: www.2geeks.de
Genre: Set collecting
Users: For families
Version: de
Rules: de en ua
In-game text: no
Comments:
Attractive design
Simple basic mechanisms
Special abilities of cards are nice details
High chance factor
Compares to:
Set collecting games with special card functions
Other editions:
Chance (pink): 2
Tactic (turquoise): 1
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 1
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 2
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0