Players must attract new inhabitants to their location by fulfilling the different conditions each one sets.
Special cards will give you advantages, but you'll have to be careful with the town madmen and the dragons.
Whoever has the most inhabitants at the end of the game will be the winner and will make their kingdom prosper!
Today we'll look at this fun card game where luck with the dice is key to winning.
Making the best decision each turn will help you achieve the highest score and win the game, but be careful: you'll need to pay close attention, be mentally flexible, and have practiced number series, approximations, and color discrimination.
8 to 99 years old
2 to 5 players
30 minutes
| Rating: (1-5) |
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| Sociability |
****
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Luck |
*****
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| Cooperation |
*
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Suspense |
***
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| Speed |
**
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Calculation |
*****
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| Memory |
***
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Visual dexterity |
****
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A strategy game that works on visual perception, logical reasoning, attention, and executive functions.
Preparations:
Prepare and sort the "Places", "Inhabitants" and "Punishments" cards into 3 decks.
Next, place the Place cards in a row, as follows:
City -> Mine -> Workshop -> Orc Village -> Haunted Forest, always leaving the card with the number 2 on top, and the 3 and 4 below.
Shuffle the Inhabitant cards and place them face down, one row below the Location cards, to the far left. Take the top 5 Inhabitant cards and place them face up, below each Location card, to the right of their deck.
Shuffle the Punishment cards and place them in the same row as the Residents, to the far right. Leave a space between the Residents card on the right and the Punishment deck for discarded cards.
Finally, place the dice near the cards, so they're within easy reach. It should look something like this:
How do you play?
There are 10 different types of village cards: Richie, Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Orc, Goblin, Wizard's Apprentice, Fairy, Mesmer, and finally, the Dragon. At the very bottom, you'll see all the cards and their conditions.
You'll see that all Inhabitant cards have a number of colored squares at the bottom of each card. These are the conditions you must meet with your dice to choose that card. They have a score (the number shown in the upper left corner) and a color (which appears across the entire top border).
Each turn you have to do 3 things: Roll the dice, Choose Inhabitant cards (and Place cards, if you're lucky), and replace cards.
1.- Roll the dice:
Roll the dice. You can discard some and roll the rest, or you can roll all of them, depending on your luck.
You'll get dots in 3 possible colors on the die. See what combination you can make to meet the conditions on the Inhabitant cards and choose one of them. Remember that if you don't get the roll right on the first try, you have 3 chances to decide.
2.- Choose inhabitants
If you can draw any of the Resident cards with your rolls, great. Take that Resident card and keep it in your deck. At the end, you'll add up the points. If you can draw more than one card, choose wisely and keep only the best. Look at the points each card gives you, and if any of them match the color of the Location above them, keep both (Residents and Locations).
If you can't draw any cards because you failed to meet any card's conditions with your dice, you are punished :-(. Draw a card from the Punishment deck and put it in your card pile.
3.- Replace cards
If you were lucky with the dice and managed to keep any cards (even 2 if you were able to pick up the mesmer), there will be free spots. Move all the cards from left to right and fill them with a card from the Inhabitants deck. Pass the dice to the next player, and this ends your turn. If you had to draw a punishment, take the Inhabitants card on the far right and place it face down in a discard pile.
When does the game end?
The moment any of the three decks (Residents, Places, or Punishments) runs out, the game is over. All that's left to do is add up the points from the cards each player has earned (and subtract the Town Crazy from the Punishment deck, if you had to take any), and the player with the most points wins!
Types and conditions of resident cards
Did you enjoy this cool game? It's available for purchase
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