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Yamataï

FOr the Queen’s Smile

On order of Queen Himiko you build in the capital of Yamataï; as a master builder you want to collect most prestige to win her favor.

Five tiles for specialists, buildings and fleet are displayed; each island is equipped with a Culture token. In a round, you are active in turn order and resolve actions #1 to #5; #1 and #4 are obligatory, the others are facultative actions:

1. Take a fleet tile and the ships for Gold, Loam, Stone, Wood or Bamboo depicted on the tile; you can use the effect of the fleet at any time during this turn. 2. Trade - buy a ship or sell a ship for the price according you your player board. 3. Place ships to either empty an island by taking the Culture token on it or to construct a building on an empty island; the first ship is placed on an empty entry case or next to a ship of the same color; the following ships can be of any color, but must be placed in a straight unbroken line connected to the first ship. Buildings are constructed adjacent to newly placed ships and you earn coins and prestige. 4. Fasten unused ships - one unused ship can be kept for the next round; other left-over ships go next to your player board and score penalty points at the end. 5. Hire specialist by discarding Culture tokens.

If someone has built all standard buildings or the next round cannot be prepared, you win with most prestige from coins, constructed buildings and hired specialists.

Yamataï is a very beautiful game and a good game that has only one problem - very long down-times between your turns can happen; otherwise, mechanisms go well together and leave enough room for you to take decisions.

Players: 2-5

Age: 13+

Time: 80+

Designer: Bruno Cathala, Marc Paquien

Art: Jérémie Fleury, Cyrille Daujean

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: Days of Wonder 2017

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Place, collect

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en fr pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting components and graphic design

Nicely interacting mechanisms

Lots of down-time possible

(c) Image: xaldin

Compares to:

Five Tribes

Other editions:

Days of Wonder (en fr), Rebel (pl)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0