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Luther Das Spiel

From Eisleben to Wittenberg

Traveling in Luther’s tracks, to his places of work and to his companions, and working on the big Luther picture by Master Lucas Cranach!

All begin their journey in Eisleben, Luther’s birth place, with two provision cards. Five out of 20 covers on the Luther portrait are removed and locations on the plan carry companion portraits.

In a round, all choose a pair of provision card and take, for bread or cheese, a corresponding special card. Then players are active in turn: Special cards for events are resolved and then you have any number of actions in any order, but each type only once: 1. Travel up to three stages and pay with provision, mark half the cost as experience points and take a companion portrait, if available. 2. Play a Luther card with a word still on a Luther portrait cover and remove this cover and then score for open portrait parts in row or column of the removed cover. 3. Play an advantage card and resolve it. 4. Discard Luther or advantage cards and draw provision cards instead, but without special cards for bread or cheese. When all players had their turn, you reveal “Cranach malt” tiles until a word appears that is still on the Luther portrait, and remove this cover tile. When the Luther portrait is complete, you score, in one additional round, for companion portraits and sets of them, for the majority in Luther portraits and remaining cards and provisions.

A beautiful game, a game that implements the topic exceedingly well, using familiar mechanisms to travel through Luther’s life; the brochure informs on the various locations and companions whose portraits you collect on the way.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Martin and Erika Schlegel

Artist: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2016

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Very nice components

Informative brochure

Standard mechanisms

Very good for those interested in the topic

Compares to:

Travel games with stages’ costs and collecting

Other editions:

Currently none

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