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Marrying Mr. Darcy

beauty and Reputation

As one of the young ladies from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice you want to appear to your best advantage to possible suitors. You attend events, improve your character and use cunning if necessary. You can turn down a proposal, but risk to end up as an Old Maid.

The game comprises the sections Courtship and Proposal. In the Courtship section, you draw an event card, resolve it and maybe discard a character card. Events vary, you usually draw and play a character card. Beauty, Wit, Friendliness and Reputation give you points for the final scoring, when played on your heroine, and they also influence which suitor can/will propose. Cunning does not give points for the final scoring, but determines the turn order in the Proposal section.

When all event cards are played, you are active in descending order of your cunning point total. First you determine the - still available - suitors whose standards you meet; for instance, Mr. Darcy demands a Wit total of 5 from your heroine. Then you can decide on Ladies Choice; you choose one suitor only and have +1 for the roll. If not, you roll for the available suitor with the lowest number; in case of a roll result of 4-6 the suitor proposes. If you do not accept it, you roll for the next suitor, if you did not choose Ladies Choice. If nobody proposes, you turn Old Maid. In the end, you win with the highest total of character and marriage points.

Strategic choices for partners - do I try to get the one and only or do I present myself as ubiquitous as possible to get a maximum of suiters interested? A very witty and cute interpretation of the novel, you can even win the game as an Old Maid!

Players: 2-6

Age: 13+

Time: 45+

Designer: Erika K. Svanoe

Artist: Erik Evensen

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Evensen Creative 2016

Web: www.marryingmrdarcy.com

Genre: Cards, events

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Based on Pride and Prejudice

Familiarity with the novel is an advantage

Topic very nicely implemented

Pretty design

Variants are listed

Compares to:

Card games with event cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0