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The Edict of King Budeaunia

a kingdom for a hot spring

A king in his sleep dreams of a hot spring and when he wakes up he sends people out to search for it and pledges his throne! You place your workers to dig. Six digging lots are prepared by placing stacks of deep, medium and shallow digging tiles. Treasure cards and specialist cards are prepared. One turn comprises hiring a guard for a digging bonus, Digging with investigating using 1 worker, Digging using 1 worker, detonating loam using 2 workers, fight a monster with 1 worker and hire a specialist for one worker. When you have used your two workers, you take them back unless they are in the left-hand hospital. If you want to take them from there you must pay for them or relocate them to the right-hand hospital. Furthermore, you can hire a worker and, finally, you give back guards and specialists and turn a specialist over.

When both hot springs have been found or five digging sites are empty, the game ends. IF you found both hot springs, you win instantly. Otherwise you win with the highest score from underground river, monsters, treasures, springs and money as soon as five digging sites are depleted. However, should four digging sites be depleted and none of the springs was found, all players have lost the game together.

A family game using worker placement, on the edge to a game for experienced players; the timing for using specialists is essential in this game, because you do not want to give too much information to other players via the investigation action. If you do not want the Japanese editions out of a collector’s interest, you should get the Ferti Edition in German, English and French.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Takahiro Amioka, Sayaka

Artist: Mushi, Suo, Iori Watanabe

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: KogeKogeDo 2014

Web: www.japonbrand.com

Genre: Worker placement

Users: For families

Version: jp

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Not a pure family game, some playing experience is of advantage

Clever use of specialists is necessary

Mix of planning and risk is necessary

Compares to:

Simple worker placement games, excavation games like “Das Geheimnis der Pyramide” for topic and card layers

Other editions:

Multilingual Japanese Edition, multilingual edition named “Takara Island” with Ferti

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