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12 Thieves

robbery in baghdad

Guards against thieves for treasures from palaces. Six palaces are equipped with treasure chests, value 4 on top, value 7 at the bottom, and a neutral guard begins on one of the guard cases. Depending on the number of players, you have different amounts of guards and palace cards from the stack and always 12 thieves. At the start, you place your guards on free cases at the palaces and place your thieves on your personal board. Then, in turn, you play palace cards to move one of your own thieves from your board into a palace or relocate one of your guards or relocate one of your guards together with one of your thieves or relocate a neutral guard; the cards used for this must show the color of either the target or the starting palace.

Actions can be done in any order and combination as often as you have cards for them, but you can only do maximum three actions involving a thief. At the end, you refill your hand by drawing three cards; if you did not do any action, you draw four cards, one of them can be dancer, who then in a later turn can replace a palace card.

To steal a treasure, you need the same number of your thieves in a palace as are depicted on the top treasure chest; you take the chest and take back all your thieves. If you have collected the necessary number of treasure chests, you win. In a version, each player places his own and two neutral guards at the start of the game.

12 Thieves is a fast, well-working game, that has, fortunately, not been changed compared to its predecessor; the taking-along of the thieves offers a lot of options and you should never forget to keep an eye on your fellow players.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Thorsten Gimmler

Artist: Michael Menzel, Patricia Limberger

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Queen Games 2017

Web: www.queen-games.com

Genre: Placement, acquisition

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of Der Dieb von Bagdad, Queen Games, 2006

Good, clear rules

Easily and quickly learned and played

Taking along of thief is an interesting detail

Compares to:

Der Dieb von Bagdad

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0