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Die Tavernen im tiefen Thal

Guests, Bear and Doubloons

New guests for the host, providing money for tavern upgrade to attract noblemen. Basically, you use dice to profitably upgrade your personal deck of cards. Five modules that build on each other allow you to play in varying degrees of difficulty.

Module I Tavernenausbau is the core game, so to say, you upgrade your tavern in eight rounds of seven phases each: A) Next evening for a bonus. B) Put cards to tables. C) Take one dice per waitress from phase B or permanently hired one and roll them, maximum 3. D) Roll four white dice and draft them. E) Place white and your own dice on action slots. F) Resolve planned actions - serve guest and empty cash box for money; deliver beer, visit of beer merchant and barrel for beer; monk for movement on the monastery track for bonuses. Doubloons r and beer received allow additional actions - buy tavern cards, upgrade tavern, hire workers and entice guests/noblemen. G) Closing time - clean-up or end of game; you win with most victory points on your cards.

Modules II to V supplement the game with: II - Schnapps for bonus actions; III - Reputation for Schnapps and Nobles, IV Individual starting conditions and V) guest book entries for for bonuses.

A cute and clever topic, very thematically implemented with beautiful components and basically simple rules; the phases provide coherent development ending in earning of money and beer to upgrade the tavern and entice guests; interaction is limited and strategies varied. This and the modules provide high replay value.

Players: 2-4

Age: 12+

Time:60+

Designer: Wolfgang Warsch

Artist: Dennis Lohausen

Price: ca. 38 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2019

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Deck building, dice drafting + placing

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en fr nl pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice components

Topic very well implemented

Simple core rules

Little interaction

Compares to:

Combinations of deck building with dice drafting and dice placing

Other editions:

999 Games (nl), G3 (pl), / NorthStar (en), Schmidt Spiele (en fr)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0