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Founding and farming kingdoms

Cards represent countries and one tries to found a kingdom; conquered countries must be husbanded by farmers, because without them land has no value.

Each player has his own kingdom as a board on the table and ten cards in hand. You play a country, that is, a card, the others must follow suit, if possible; the highest card wins the trick. If you win the trick you sort the cards in it by color and place them from left to right on your kingdom. At the start you choose the order of colors, later you add cards on top of the respective color, always with the top card of your choice. Then you are given the farmers depicted on the trick-winning card and place them on cases without farmers. The first to cases of the kingdom show free farmers. For cards of values 0, 1 and 2 there are special rules for tricks and farmers - you win farmers for 1 and 2 if you can get rid of them and if they correspond to the color of the trick-winning card. A 0 in a trick you win must be placed on top of the stack. When all tricks have been played you add the top card values in cases with farmers. For cards in cases with fewer farmers then demanded by the farmers shown you pay penalty points, for farmers in cases without cards you score bonus points. After four rounds you win with most points.

A great game! The balance between wanting to win tricks and to want to keep the highest possible card on top provides a thrilling trick-taking game with returning dilemma, because you also must collect farmers, because without them the highest card will be valueless!

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Ronald Hoekstra, Thomas Jansen, Patrick Zuidhof

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Playthisone 2013

Web: www.playthisone.com

Genre: Placement, trick-taking

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Challenging mechanisms providing lots of dilemma

Plays fast

Few but concise rules

High replay value

Compares to:

Null & Nichtig

Other editions:

French edition at Iello, German edition announced from Kosmos

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0