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Duckomenta Art

Duck Art in museums!

The works of interDucks are in demand worldwide, but not always for the same period of their creativity. The game comprises 95 works of art from five epochs, shuffled and stacked face down, epoch cards are laid out openly. You play three phases per round: New cards - you are dealt cards depending on number of players and round. One card from the stack is turned up for a trend setter. For the Exhibition phase you choose one card from your hand and put it into your display, sorted by epochs. An action symbol on the card is resolved immediately; those symbols affect cards in hand and cards in the displays. When, including the trend setter, six works of art from the same epoch are laid out openly, the round is scored in Phase Three: You reveal all face-down cards and assign them to their epochs. Then scoring tiles 3-1-2 are placed beneath the epoch with most, second- and third-most works of art in total. Then you score for your works of arts from epochs with scoring tiles underneath, and can add a card from your hand before scoring. After scoring the scoring tiles underneath epochs cards are placed on the cards and player displays are emptied. After four such rounds you win with the highest score.

This adaptation removes auctioning of works of art from the game; the value of cards comes from the number of cards on display now, for which one now has to rely more heavily on the chance element of card dealing and can only exercise influence via symbols on cards. Actually, it is now a completely different game, but a very good and interesting one, attractive and witty due to its illustrations!

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artist: Ralf Berszuck, Hans-Georg Schneider

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2013

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Adaptation of Modern Art

Cute topic,

Very nice, diverting illustrations

Clearly simplified rules with less interaction

Compares to:

Modern Art for topic and set collection, other set collecting games

Other editions:

Oya, France; also Gryphon, USA, with different illustrations

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0