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Fairy Land

Rivalry in the forEst

Rivalry is also rife among fairies in the forest, each family wants to prepare the best reception for the Fairy King and tries to collect flowers and strike up friendships with the forest animals.

For this you place cards into a stack called Queen’s Court, Fairy cards for each player, the so-called House cards, and Forest cards in a stack; nine of those forest cards are set aside as a Druid stack. Finally, you turn up three cards from the Forest stack for clearings.

In your turn you first turn up two cards and place them on two different stacks = clearings; Ogers and goblins are placed in stacks with fewest of those creatures. Then you can explore a clearing: All players in turn make a bid with Fairy cards from their hand. The winner of the bid takes one stack of his choice –Fairies he takes into his hand, Ogers are discarded instantly together with flowers and animals as a penalty and the remaining cards are laid out. Or you can play Fairy cards open on the table and can take the corresponding number of cards from the Queen’s Court or from the Druid stack and can keep one of those cards. Then you can play the Fairy Crest or an Item received from the Queen’s Court; at the end of your turn all clearings with 6 or more cards are removed.

When all Forest cards have been used you win with most victory points from your cards; animals and flowers score points, if you hold most goblins, you lose points.

Fairy Land offers a nice mix of set collecting and bidding, money aka Fairy Cards are extremely scarce and you need to use it carefully; for a valuable Fairy in a clearing one put up with a goblin!

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Luca Iennaco

Art: Mara Aghem, Andrea Malgeri

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Lo Scarabeo 2012

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de it + en fr + jp cn

In-game text: no

Comments:

Fantasy topic

Very good and pretty components

Simple mechanism

Compares to:

Set collecting games

Other editions:

Editions in English and French

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Interaction (brown): 3

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