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Vampire Queen

Penalty from Vampire Queen and Vampire Slayers

As a Vampire Prince you were out hunting with your vampire clan and now, at dawn, you try to assemble your clan in the tomb as fast as you can and thus avoid the vampire slayers that cause vampires to leave the tomb.

The game features 104 vampire cards of values 1-13, 4 Vampire Queens and 2 Vampire Slayers, depending on the number of players you are dealt between 9 and 13 cards for each round. The starting player of a turn plays any number of cards of the same value;, the other players in turn must answer with the same number of cards of higher value or pass their turn. If you played the highest value cards, you are the next starting player. A Vampire Slayer can only be played as the first card of a round by the starting player and only as a single card. This triggers a special round – each player in turn must play one single card and you cannot pass your turn, but values need not be raised in turn. If you played the highest card, you take all cards of the turn. The Vampire Queen is a joker card that takes on the value of cards with which she is played. If she is played as a single card, she has a value of 14 and cannot be surpassed.

If someone is out of cards, the round ends and remaining cards in hand give you penalty points equal to the number values of the cards; a Vampire Queen in hand gives you a penalty of -14 and the Vampire Slayers -15 and -20. After five such rounds you win with fewest points.

Vampire Queen is a nice fast family game with reminds one of Karrierepoker, Tichu and others and, of course, the predecessor Ochs & Esel, Vampire Queen and Vampire Slayers introduce additional tactic.

Players: 3-12

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Wolfgang Kramer

Artist: Irene Bressel, Leon Schiffer

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2016

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Cards

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Revised new edition

Changed topic

Attractive family game

Compares to:

Ochs & Esel, Karrierepoker

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0