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Covenant

pact with Death

Four greedy noblemen enter a covenant with Death to inherit the throne, but the price is death for one of the nobles at the hand of a suspect. 28 or 30 citizens are laid out face-down in a grid, you hold 2 allies and 7 or 6 suspects; there is a suspect corresponding to each citizen. You play a card on the table into your district, move the coach around the districts in relation to the number on the card and then resolve the ability of the card, if possible. Then you look at a face-down citizen and reveal him or another one in the grid. If the revealed citizen corresponds to a suspect in a district, you cover the suspect with the citizen, the innocence is proven. Then you can swap a card in your district with a card in the district with the coach, the card you offer must be of the same family or of higher value.

When all are out of cards or there are only three citizens left in the grid, the culprit is determined among the remaining citizen – depending on the position of the family chips that were randomly placed at the start of the game, or for numbers of family members. If you have the corresponding suspect in your district, you do not score. The others score for characters and their abilities in their districts and bonuses for allies.

 A nice topic, nicely implemented, unfortunately there is an ambiguity in the rules – the rules state “... citizen corresponds to suspect in the district”, that is on the table; an example and a video allow both district and hand, which would be far too easy. Otherwise this is a well-illustrated and thrilling search and memo version with surprises from the character abilities.

Players: 3-5

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Óscar Arévalo

Artist: Víctor Corbellá

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Gen X Games 2016

Web: www.genxgames.es

Genre: Search / display cards

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: en es fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Unusual topic, nicely implemented

Rules ambiguity as regards to suspect locations

Innocence for suspects in hand would be too simple

Compares to:

Search games for pairs with additional rules

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