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Nile deLuxor

The Game of Ancient Agriculture

Players use cards in order to plant crops in acres and to harvest. There are seven different crops - Papyrus, wheat, salad, beans, flax, grapes and onions - as well as speculation cards and commodities stones and monuments for the Monument Expansion.

A turn comprises phases Flood, Harvest, Trade, Plant/Speculate and drawing two cards. For Flood you turn up the top card of the stack: If you have planted this crop, you harvest the top card of that crop into your stock. In the the Trade phase you can discard two cards from hand or stock and draw a new card or discard two cards and replace the current Flood card with a new one. Plant/Speculate is regulated by the Flood card, crop pictured on it cannot be planted and you can only newly plant what currently is not planted elsewhere on the table, but you can add to crops already planted. Instead of planting you can also speculate: You guess that cards you speculate with will have at least one crop in common with the next Flood card; if you succeed you get cards.

Plague of Locust must be implemented immediately, it destroys the field that at this moment holds most crop cards. When the draw pile has been used up as often as there are players the game is scored: You sort your stock into crops and lay the stacks out in ascending order from left to right, no cards in a crop would be the first stack! You win with the most cards in the left-most stack.

Nile deLuxor offers - despite restrictions in the plant/speculate phase - simple rules for a family game and yet enough depth and strategy for experienced players, a good „light“ card game for discerning players.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Daniel Callister, James Mathe

Art: Chuck Whelon, Clay Cardner

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Minion Games 2011

Web: www.miniongames.com

Genre: Set collection game

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: de en kr

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of Nile

2 new crops, onions and grapes

Includes Monument expansion

Compares to:

Nile

Other editions:

Currently none

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