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Princesses & Unicorns

A choice of Accessories!

A modern princess and her unicorn are looking for tiaras, robes and frogs, summarily called prizes, because, after all, you want to have some choice for your princess outfits.

Each player has a deck in his color, shuffles all cards and draws five of them for his hand. The prize cards are also shuffled and ten prizes are set out, face down and in pairs. Two pairs are then revealed. The remaining prize cards not laid out in pairs serve as the Fairy Godmother Deck.

For each of the prize pairs there are maximum two bidding rounds. You bid one card face down and draw a card from your deck, then all cards that were bid are revealed simultaneously. When all players did bid unicorns, bidding ends and the player with the highest bid selects a prize, the player with the second-highest bids takes the second card of the pair. When minimum one princess was bid, all players who did bid a princess, must make a second bid of one face-down card and then reveal it. Whoever now has the highest total bid, chooses a prize, the second-highest bid again gets the second card. If one of the prize cards is a Fairy Godmother, you look at the two top cards from the Fairy Godmother deck and take one of them. Bidding the Dog Ghost card lets you see all other bids before you choose another card for your valid bid. All bid cards go out of play. When all five pairs of prizes have been dealt with, you add up your prizes; the majority in each type of prize gives you two bonus points, as does each complete set of prizes; a witch costa you a point.

Princesses & Unicorns is a cute, quick and unusual auction game, a good memory for cards is an advantage.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Max Michael, Aaron Lauster

Artist: Julia Borrerro

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: StrataMax Games 2016

Web: www.stratamaxgames.com

Genre: Auction, cards

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice family game

Lots of fun with few components

Card memory is helpful

Compares to:

Auction games with closed bids

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0