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Kingdomino

A kingdom of dominoes

You build a kingdom around your castle. Each tile has two halves = squares – like a domino tile – and each square shows one of six landscapes and sometimes a building with one, two or three crowns. You begin the game with a starting tile of size one square + 3D castle and a wooden piece, your king, in the color of the castle.

Then four tiles are randomly drawn and laid out in a row, number side up and in ascending order of numbers, smallest number is „on top“. One player takes the kings into his hand and drops them randomly, one by one; the respective owner selects one tile and puts the king on top. Then you prepare a second row of tiles in the same way, sorted by numbers and then turned up.

Then, beginning with the player “on top” and all take their tile and put the king on a tile in the second row. When all tiles are taken and all kings placed, you prepare the next row of tiles. Tile #1 goes next to the starting tile, from tile #2 on a new tile must be adjacent to the starting tile or next to a tile with one corresponding landscape. Maximum size of the display grid is 5x5 halves/squares (!), not tiles, the orientation of the tiles can be any way. When all tiles have been used, you score each landscape area, number of halves x crowns in the landscape. Areas without crowns are not scored. Variants give you a bonus for placing all twelve tiles or for having the castle at the center of the grid.

The thrill and sophistication of Kingdomino is in the selection mechanism fort he tiles; if I choose the top on, I choose first in the next round! A simple game with enormous depth! Perfect!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Bruno Cathala

Artist: Cyril Bouquet, Jens Wiese

Price:  ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2016

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Tile placement, area majorities

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: cz de en es fr it nl pt ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple mechanism

Lots of sophisticated depth

Each game is different

High replay value

Compares to:

Tile placement with area majorities

Other editions:

Blue Orange (multi), Lifestyle (ru), Mindok (cz), White Goblin (nl)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0