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Shepherdess, Dragon, Thief and Treasures

Dragons go treasure hunting, but treasures are hiding behind sheep - double-sided cards show sheep on one side and treasures and actions on the other side.

Four sheep are on display representing the open pasture and you begin with four cards in hand. In your turn you always draw cards first, from pasture or stack - the limit for cards in hand is 10 - and then you play up to two cards or pass. A card can be played for a treasure, a cave and for actions, sheep can only be used to pay for laying out a treasure. If you lay out a treasure you discard the indicated number and color of sheep from your hand; treasures are displayed sorted by color. Caves can be laid out for free and earn you additional points when there is a color correlation between caves and treasures. Possible actions are: Angry Mob - all players lose half of their cards in hand; Shepherdess - you draw 2 additional cards; Thief - you draw two cards from another player; Knight - one player loses a turn; Dragon - fends off an action, but not Magician or Dragon; Magician - is played with Mob, Shepherdess, Thief or Knight and and renders the action undefeatable; Unicorn - protects you from any action for one round. If someone plays his 10^th treasure card, you win at the end of the round with most points.

A lot of purple sheep in your hand can indicate a valuable purple treasure, so beware of Knight or Mob! And be prepared and have a few dragons or unicorns in hand! The game offers a nice and beautifully illustrated mix of luck in drawing cards, tactic in collecting and discarding and a nice aggravation component, which works best with four players.

Players: 2-4

Age: 9+

Time: 45+

Designer: Nathanael Mortensen

Artist: Jonas Åkerlund

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2015

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Backsides of cards yield information

Good mix of tactic and chance

High irritation level from action cards

Very attractive design

Compares to:

Set collection games using actions

Other editions:

Dragon’s Hoard, Mortensen Games

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0