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Lichterfest

Lanterns on the lake

The Lantern Festival at the day of the full moon in the twelfth month is celebrated and each player wants to put the most beautiful lantern combination onto the lake-

One starting lake tile with four colors is laid out, each player sits facing one of the colors and begins the game with a lantern card of this color and three lake tiles. Basically, you lay out lake tiles to receive lantern cards, which are then exchanged for dedication cards.

A players turn can comprise to optional actions and must comprise one compulsory action: First, you can discard two boats to exchange one of your lantern cards for one from stock. Then you can discard lantern cards for a dedication card, either four cards of the same color, three color pairs of cards or one card of each color. The later you meet such a task the lower the reward will be. As a compulsory action you must place a lake tile from your hand into the display on the table; the colors of touching edges need not correspond, but for each side that does correspond in color you receive a lantern card of this color, if currently available. If you placed a tile with a symbol to correspond, you also get a boat, and also for each tile with a symbol, to which you can place your tile in adjacent position. Then each player gets a lantern card in that color on the newly placed tile that he faces. When all lake tiles have been placed, you add up the points on your dedication cards and win with most of them.

A family game straight from the wish list, beautiful, harmonious, featuring easy rules and yet enough in-game depth and tactical options to satisfy more experienced players.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Christopher Chung

Artist: Beth Sobel, Jason D. Kingsley, Christine Major, Hans-Georg Schneider

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2016

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Tile placement, set collection

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en fr kr pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

German edition of Lanterns

Very pretty components

Simple rules

Lots of tactics

Compares to:

Placement games with correlations

Other editions:

Renegade Games Studios, Foxtrot Games; Matagot, Korea Boardgames, White Goblins, all announced

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0