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Celestia

in gullivers footsteps

Gulliver searched in vain for Celestia, we search in his footsteps for celestial cities and treasures. Players in turn are captain of the dirigible, all other players are the passengers, respectively, and all begin the game with 8 or 6 cards in hand.

The captain of the round directs the dirigible and implements the journey to the next of the city tiles, arranged in ascending order.

First, he rolls for events, as many dice as are depicted on the next city. Now each passenger decides if he continues the journey or leaves the dirigible. If you leave, you take your marker off the ship, draw the top treasure card at the current location of the ship and are out of the game for the remainder of the trip. Ow the captain discards cards – a compass for each cloud on the dice, a lightning rod for each lightning, a horn for each bird and a cannon for each sword; before this he and passengers can play power cards. If the captain discarded all necessary cards, he moves the ship to the target city. The next player becomes captain and rolls for the next city with all remaining passengers. If the captain could not meet the dice demand, the ship crashes and nobody in it gets treasures. The dirigible is put back on City 1 and a new journey begins with a new captain and all passengers, all players draw one card. Cities out of treasure cards are left out. If you have at least 50 treasure points at the start of a new journey, the game ends and you win with most points.

In this version, too, Celestia or Cloud 9 is an enchanting family game, with marvelous components, a nice story and a very well balanced mix of risk and chance. Pure fun to play!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Aaron Weissblum

Artist: Gaétan Noir, Fiona Carey, Marco Reinartz

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Dice, risk management

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Beautiful components

Nice story

Easy to play

Exactly the right amount of risk

Compares to:

Cloud 9

Other editions:

Blam! Edition

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0