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Gold!

Donkey EARNS gold from the display

A donkey is well-known for delivering gold, but you must use him diligently to achieve this. You start your display with a donkey card, which you display in front of yourself, the remaining donkey and gold cards are stacked as a draw pile. Two cards are set aside without looking at them and another five cards are laid out to form a display called offering. Gold is played with open card, you place your cards sorted by color on the table, and there are no hand cards. In your turn you take either the lowest card from the offering into your own display or you swap cards with the offering: Only one of your own gold cards for a gold card of lower value from the offering or one of your donkeys for any gold card from the display. Three cards of the same color form a set which is instantly scored, and allows you to take a card from one of your fellow players, but not in a color that is present in your display, and also not in the color of the set just formed. The Set is set aside face-down for points. If you take the last card from the offering, you replenish it with five cards from the stack.

When the draw pile is empty, each player sums the cards of each color in his display. If you have the highest total of a color, you place your highest gold card of this color on your scoring stack. Then you add up the cards in your scoring stack and win with most points.

Gold! A fast quick card came, in which it is paramount to decide when you take which cards – sometimes it is better to take a lower card to avoid that your neighbor uses it to make a set. Don’t forget the color scoring at the end and keep an eye on the display of your opponents!

Players: 2-3

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Michael Schacht

Artist: Design/Main

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Abacusspiele

Web: www.abacusspiele.de

Genre: Set collecting game

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version:  multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Fast play * needs observation of opponents * tactical use of card selection mechanism is essential

Compares to:

All set collection games and all such games comprising an open display

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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