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Dark Tales

Cinderella

Stories in the Land of Dark Tales do not always end happily! In the Land of the Dark Tales you use 54 cards - playing cards and Setting cards A and B - and 20 Items - Gold Coins, Swords, Armor and Magic Wands. In your turn, you draw a card, play - optional - an item and resolve the effects according to the valid card A and then you play a card. You score the icons of the card for victory points, placement location and effects. Items that you receive are laid out. The interactions between cards and items are the key to the game, the effects of the items change with the background stories, the Setting cards. If someone cannot draw a card anymore, play continues until someone is out of cards and thus ends the game. Now you resolve card B and win with most victory points.

In this second expansion for Dark Tales, Cinderella, too, does not always live happily ever after in Dark Tales: You lay out a Day and a Night card from the core game and shuffle the expansion cards with those of the core game. From the core game setting cards + new expansion cards A4 and B4 you randomly select two and add the setting cards A-Cinderella and B-Cinderella for the scoring of “Ball at the Palace”. Cinderella tiles are stacked separately. New symbols are “Cinderella tiles” for taking or turning over those tiles or “Musical Notes” for scoring points. “Ball” for a scoring of tiles, Dancing Couples and single dancing cards is triggered by three cards discarded to “Ball at the Palace”.

Again, a fairy tale as a fantasy adventure, the variation of the familiar topic and the interaction of cards and items again provides good fun!

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 30+

Designer: Pierlucca Zizzi

Artist: Dany Orizio

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: dV Giochi 2014

Web: www.abacusspiele.de

Genre: Fantasy, card interaction

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: en it

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Second expansion for Dark Tales

Fairy tales as fantasy adventures

Short playing time

Playing experience is helpful

Compares to:        

Dark Tales and Dark Tales Cinderella

Other editions:

dV Giochi (it)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0