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Der Wettkampf der Burgbaumeister

wall construction by numbers

The king wants a pretty new wall built around his equally new palace and will royally reward whoever completes the wall first.

Each player is giving a starting tower with #1, and lays it down as start of his personal wall row. 45 cards showing parts of a wall and numbered from 2 to 46 are either placed face down in a grid or spread randomly, but not overlapping.

As the active player you turn over a card and can take it add it to your wall as the rightmost card, it must then show the highest number in the row. If you cannot place the card or do not want to do so, you leave the card and turn it back over again. If you place your ninth card and thus have a row of 10 cards in ascending order, you win.

In a variant you win with most points, cards showing persons on the wall give you additional points or trigger actions: King Edelbart and Queen Antebella give you three points, Knight and Damsel give you one point and an additional point if you can make up a pair of Knight + Damsel. Each raven scores one point and a card showing two ravens gives you two extra points. With a cannon you can destroy a card in the row of another player. A tower in the row protects all cards between itself and another tower. The Magician lets you insert a card anywhere in row instead of placing it at the end. If someone has aligned 10 cards, each card scores 1 point and the additional points as mentioned.

This is basically a memo with additional rules, albeit a very pretty memo and rather tactical when using the point scoring variant. A very nice family game in both variants, featuring cute, nice illustrations.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Dominique Ehrhard

Artist: Maciej Szymanowicz, Volker Maas

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: moses. Verlag 2016

Web: www.moses-verlag.de

Genre: Ascendant placement

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple mechanism

Tactics from choice of numbers

Nice family game

Compares to:

All placement games demanding ascending sequences

Other editions:

C’est mon Fort, MJ Games

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0