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Takara Island

digging for eternal life

There is a rumor that the newly discovered island of Takara holds limitless treasures and two precious Stones of Legends that together grant you eternal life. As adventurers we set out to find them.

The board with Harbor, Counter, Dive, Beach and Hospital areas and the stacks for treasure chests and stacks for digging sites is prepared according to the instructions.

A turn comprises optional Rent of Sword and then Activating workers for View or Dig Gallery or Destroy Rockfall – all by revealing or taking cards from the site stacks; Go to the Dive for money, Go to the Counter, Hire a Specialist or Fight a Monster if you did rent the sword. Each worker can do one action per turn, Destroying Rockfall takes two workers per Rockfall. The Counter can only be visited by one worker, he sells victory points for money or buys victory points for money. A specialist can be used once. Finally, you can Recruit the one worker on the Beach and Finish the Day with Returning the Sword and then Taking back unhurt workers or workers from the hospital break room. Hurt workers can be released for money; if you do not want to pay you move them from hospital to the hospital break room.

If you find both stones you win instantly; when five digs are empty and one stone was found, you win with most Experience Points. When no stone was found and four sites are empty, all have lost together.

This is a worker placement game for families with some gaming experience; you need to use specialists very cleverly and be prepared for some risk. Only the topic has been chanced as regards to the Japanese original of the game.

Players:2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Takahiro & Sayaka Amioka

Artist: Naïade

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Ferti Games 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Worker placement

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Revised new edition of “The Edict of King Budeaunia”, Kogekogedo, 2015

Presented again because of the topic change

Compares to:

Excavation games featuring several levels, simple worker placement games

Other editions:

The Edict of King Budeaunia, Kogekogedo

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0