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Han

Houses and ambassadors

In insecure and instable times full of intrigues players rival for the position of Emperor in China by placing houses and sending ambassadors into provinces for points.

One side of the board is chosen and players choose a color and take all pieces of that color; province cards are prepared according to the chosen board and number of players; each player is dealt three cards, the rest is stacked for a face-down draw-pile.

In your turn you either play 1, 2 or three cards and place pieces from your stock in the corresponding province and then draw as many cards, or you discard a card. You can only place pieces in one province per turn and only one piece per card. When the province is empty you can only place one piece, when a piece is already placed, you can place up to pieces per turn. Two cards of a color replace one card of any other color. Houses are placed onto free cases, only one house per case and only as many houses as there are cases provided in a province. Ambassadors are placed on the dragon case of a province; a dragon case can only take a number of ambassadors equal to the highest number of houses of one color in this provinces. You can place an ambassador if you don't have a house in the province and also after houses in a province have been scored.

A province is scored for majorities when all houses in it are placed. When the draw pile is empty for the second time you score unscored hoses, ambassadors and road connections.

The scorings offer different strategies and thus continuously challenging decisions, drawing of cards introduces a thrilling amount of luck to this excellent game!

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 45

Designer: Michael Schacht

Artist: Michael Schacht

Price: ca. 22 Euro

Publisher: Abacusspiele 2014

Web: www.abacusspiele.de

Genre: Placement, using cards

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of China

Jubilee edition on 25 years of games designed by Michael Schacht

Different winning strategies

Compares to:

China, in general placement games for majorities

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0