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Lady Richmond

Fast fight for Inheritance

Lady Richmond has died unexpectedly and without leaving a last will or testament; the family clan fights for the inheritance of works of art, antiques, junk and trash, which is now auctioned off.

Each player chooses a character and takes his three Cheat tiles and 10 coins. Object and Auctioneer cards are shuffled and stacked face-down, seven cards are placed on the board. The active player turns up one of the cards and all can decide if they want to start an auction. If you want to do so and grab the Auction Block, you announce your starting bid for all the open cards on the board. All players in turn can raise the bid or pass, the highest bid gets all cards.

When a blue Auctioneer card is turned up, no auction is started, but the instruction of the card is resolved - Pause and pass the turn to the next player, clearing of all open-faced cards, replacing of all cards with cards from the stack, or raising or lowering the capital of all players to 10 coins.

When the red Auctioneer is revealed, all cards on the board are auctioned, if someone starts an auction by grabbing the Auction Block. Before raising a bid or passing, you can use one of your Cheat tiles to look at a face-down card on the board or, to swap one of your previously won cards with a card from the board or to take a card from another player.

When all cards have been auctioned, you win with the highest total of points from the cards you won.

Auctioning at its best in the family circle, simple, easy and with the certain something provided by Auctioneer cards and Cheat tiles, which allow for some tactics; all in all, a very nice extension of the new range of family games.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Tim Rogasch

Artist: Christian Effenberger

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2016

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Auction

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice mix of gambling and auction

Chance element and tactic nicely balanced via cheat tiles

Well-working family game

Compares to:

Auction games with event elements

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0