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The journey to the Lonely Mountain has been portrayed with this trick-taking card game for teams; Hobbit Bilbo, Dwarf Thorin and Gandalf the Magician represent Good against Dragon Smaug and Orc Bolg representing the evil side.

The game comprises five character cards and 60 playing cards, made up from values 1 to 12 in five colors. Depending on the number of players, character cards and playing cards are specifically assigned and dealt.

A game is made up from a maximum of two rounds; a round ends when the last card from hand has been played and the trick assigned. Thorin is the starting player and plays one card, the other players play the same color, or, if they don’t have it, another color or purple for trump. The winner of the trick assigns cards to himself and other players according to the rules valid for his character: Bilbo keeps one card, hands on one card and discards the rest. Thorin shuffles the trick face-down and deals one card randomly to each player; Gandalf and Smaug distribute the cards at their choice, but only one per player; they can assign cards or discard them all. Bolg must take a card himself or give one to another player and discards the rest. You cannot collect positive symbols for yourself, but can only use them instantly to balance bad symbols; both cards are then discarded, as are cards without such symbols. When there is no winning team after the first round, a second round is played. A character is out of the game when he holds two negative symbols.

A basically very simple trick game, where the finesse is in assigning the cards of a trick, you must carefully consider if you want to take a trick, because you could end up with a card you do not really want.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Martin Wallace

Art: Francisco Nepitello, Ted Nasmith

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Trick-taking card game, fantasy setting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr gr it jp nl pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Basically simple trick card game

More choice for the Bad side, they can choose cards before discarding some, but have fewer characters in play

Compares to:

Basically all trick-taking card games

Other editions:

France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, USA, etc.

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0