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Challenge Austria

Known, swapped or guessed?

The board shows Austria and a track running, mostly along its border, through all nine provinces. The track is color-coded for each province, and one case per province is marked with a letter. The question cards in the game are either white or colored. White ones feature generic questions about Austria; colored question cards relate to specific topics for the respective province and you can only answer such a question if your pawn sits on a case in the color of the province.

At the start, you choose a pawn and place it the province of the same color, on the province letter. Then you receive a starting capital of 15 € and draw five cards from the stack - the rules recommend that you play the cards in order of their numbering to guarantee a good mix. The active player rolls two dice and moves his pawn accordingly. Then you can sell or buy questions for money from other players or discard questions for a payment of 2 € per question and draw new questions accordingly. On demand, you must read out a question before trading it or reveal the sum of money you own. Then you answer any number of your total of five questions, a correct answer earns you 5 €, a wrong one costs you 3 €. If your pawn sits on a province letter, special rules apply. Whoever earns a previously agreed sum first, wins. Rules for team play are included-

This is a very unusual and very interesting quiz game, in which you can even sell the right answer! Knowledge thus is not the all-deciding factor, but rather negotiation skills, tactics and the right moment to buy a province question if you sit on a province letter and might do a double turn.

Players: 3-9

Age: 14+

Time: 90+

Designer: Melita und Robert Sedlaczek, Roberta Baron

Artist: Martin Czapka

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2017

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Quiz

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Money is an unusual game goal

Trading with questions

Team play rules are included

Compares to:

Quiz games in general, trade element is new

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0