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The Daffodil Edition

First published in 1983, the game still is one of the best multiplayer solitaire games ever, and a fascinating mix of chance and tactic.

Each player has a set of the same 27 hexagonal tiles, each showing three lines in three out of nine colors, each color represents one of the numbers from 1 to 9. One player has his set laid out face-down. He chooses and turns over a random tile; all other search for this tile in their open display of tiles and all put their tile on their personal board, in a hex of their choice. Aim of the game is to connect opposite sides of the board with lines of one color. When all tiles have been placed, you score the uninterrupted lines of the same color that connect two sides of the board, number of tiles times color value.

In a variant, you must place each tile adjacent o one already in place. Other variants use the sun and moon symbols on the tiles; you must place the same markings next to each other or you can score rows of the same symbols, those rows need not have the same color. When you manage both, you score the color and the symbol.

Player boards are double-sided, the back side is used for the Daffodil variant; in it you use four Wild Cards, whose lines represent more than one number. There are special rules for placing tiles in relation to the daffodil symbols depicted on the board; you leave them uncovered and then fill them either with your last three tiles or with three tiles set aside for the purpose during the game.

A simple game, but not an easy game, and you must do your own thinking; if you copy your neighbor’s placements, you will copy his score at best!

Players: 1-6

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Peter Burley

Artist: Steve Tolley

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Burley Games 2016

Web: www.burleygames.com

Genre: Tile placement, connections

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

One of the best multiplayer-solitaire games

Most simple rules

Fantastic mix of chance and tactic

Compares to:

Basic game was first of its kind

Other editions:

Multilingual edition 2016, earlier editions

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0