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Seventh Hero

Legendary Warriors

Seven heroes are necessary to defeat Maedoc the Destroyer. The game comprises 77 heroes, eleven each with numbers 1 to 7. As a starting display each player receives two different heroes randomly, which he displays openly as his hero group. Then you draw five more cards in hand.  As the active player you turn over the top card from the draw pile and outs it openly on the discard pile. This card indicates the condition the hero of the round must meet. You then choose a suitable hero from your hand and pass him face-down to your left neighbor. If you have no suitable card, you take a hero from your group or, failing this, pass a face-down card from the draw-pile to your neighbor. This player then recruits the hero by taking him up in hand or hands him on, still face down. If the hero returns to you, you must recruit him. Recruited heroes are placed into your group, or, if he is a second hero of the same kind, discard both of them on your stack of dead heroes.

You can use cards from your hand to get a tip from the active player and you can - once in the course of the game - use the special ability of each hero in your group. If you can collect six out of seven heroes in your group, you win. If nobody manages this, you win with most heroes, when the draw pile is empty.

Seventh Hero is yet another example for the range of fantastic games coming from Japan - offering short, concise rules, playing quickly and providing a very entertaining mix of railing other players, memorizing information and deduction as well as tactic as regards to choice of cards and timely use of hero abilities.

Players: 3-5

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Kuro

Artist: Zenzhou Chen

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2015

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Standard topic

Very good mix of mechanisms

Simple rules

Compares to:

Set collecting games using drafting

Other editions:

Alderac Entertainment, Iello, Manifest Destiny

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0