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Raiatea

legacy of the arioi

You are a member of the secret brotherhood of the Arioi and build, together with your opponents, colossal To’o statues to garner favor from the god Oro. The game comprises six action rounds and three ceremony rounds; after first one, then two and finally three action rounds comes one ceremony round.

In an action round, location cards are displayed; the active player must take one and can resolve the action: collect forest cards * acquire tattoos and ritual cards * dive for pearls * recruit priests and gain Mana * exchange masks * sell commodities and hire assistants. Assistants have permanent and once-only effects.

In ceremony rounds you enact rituals and build To’o statues: There are six ceremonial acts in a given sequence, simultaneously for all players: Dance of the Priests * Buy Ritual Cards for your rank and pay with mana * Incantation of the Gods to prepare rituals - Personal ones with instant effects for the owner, Permanent ones, Interactive ones with negative effects for other players, and general ones with general immediate effect for all * Mana for the Gods and taking ceremonial gifts - Commodity, Tattoo or two pearls * Divine Blessings * Building of To’os, each player can complete one of the To’o tasks on display, you discard resources or meet conditions.

After the third ceremony round, you score your rank, rituals, completed To’o tasks and masks.

An interesting mix of mechanism, role selection, resources management and Mana-dependent rituals which are a central element of the game. The chance element is moderate, a strategy is a necessity and the attractive icons and overall design take some time to get used to.

Players: 3-5

Age: 12+

Time: 120+

Designer: Jan Schmidt

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Price: ca. 60 Euro

Publisher: Quined Games 2018

Web: www.quined.nl

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For experts

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive design

Lots of components and symbol icons

Some learning games are necessary

(c) Image Henk Rolleman

Compares to:

Puerto Rico for role selection, set collecting games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0