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Leonardo

COnstruct and collect inventions

Leonardo da Vinci as a little creative boy has the most incredible ideas - players construct and acquire his inventions. The necessary components are collected as cards and you score points for completed invention. The board is set up with six cards "Collection" for components or paintings, three cards "Invention", the corresponding playing pieces for those inventions: the playing piece characters are moved by all players by making use of their set of cards.

At the start of a round you choose from your hand one card for a playing piece character and one for distance: If the character does not reach a card, your turn ends. If he reaches a component card, you set it down open-faced for yourself. If the character reaches an invention card you pick up bot card and corresponding piece, but only if you have all the necessary components on the table. Both component card and invention card are set aside. When the card that you reached is a painting card you pick it up and play it for its instant effect: The Vitruvian Man gives you one extra round all by yourself; the Lady with an Ermine lets you steal a component from another player; for Mona Lisa you may pick up a component or invention card from the board at the end of the round, the Self Portrait is a joker and Study of Horses allows you swap a component card with another player. When one kind of cards has been used up, you win with most points.

This is a nice set collection and set swapping game which only picks up the invention thread from the series story line and leaves out the conflict thread; standard mechanisms result in a well-working game on a nice topic.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Charles Chevallier

Artist: www.erebus-art.com

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Ghenos Games 2013

Web: www.ghenosgames.com

Genre: set collecting, acquisition

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Based on a TV series

Very pretty components

Short, concise rules

Nice mix of standard mechanisms

Compares to:

Zug um Zug and other games of set-collection and swapping sets for other items

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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