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Kabale und Hiebe

go for the crown

Intrigues and conspirators at the Royal Court in a play for the real power behind the throne. Each player holds a set of 31 conspirator cards – five more than in the original game – as his allies in a face-down stack, from which he draws three cards for his hand. Six goal cards per player are randomly drawn and stacked.

In each of six rounds, as many goal cards as there are players are laid out in a row. The active player puts one of his conspirator cards face-down in a column underneath one of the goal cards. If there is already a card in that column, it is turned over: an effect of the card is resolved instantly, an ability of the card is resolved at the end of the round in order of initiative. Then you draw one card from your stack.  A goal card is completed when there are minimum as many conspirator cards beneath as the card is worth points. When all goal cards have been completed, the round ends: All face-down cards are revealed; their instant effects are ignored, and initiative effects are resolved in initiative order. Then the goal cards are scored – each one goes to the player with the highest sum of points underneath the card. If you managed to acquire a goal card from each of the six disciplines, you score the round differently: You select a card from each discipline and double the sum. From this you deduct one point per remaining goal card. The player with the highest score after six rounds wins the game.

The interacting effects of the cards are the core of the game; familiarity with the cards gives you a rather big advantage and games get more interesting the better you know the cards.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer:  Lutz Stepponat

Artist: Julien Delval, Christof Tisch

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: LuPri 2018

Web: www.lupri.de

Genre: Card placement for goal cards

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

New edition, first edition 2006, Hans im Glück

Basically, simple rules

Interesting card interaction

Advantages if you know the cards

Compares to:

All games with card interaction

Other editions:

Rio Grande 2018 (en), earlier editions at 999 Games, Filosofia, Hans im Glück, Mindok, Rio Grande Games

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0