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Kensington

Royal Residences

Constructing houses in London - you select a color and start with a door and a storage unit for two parts, in that color, and one bonus chip on the storage board. There are parts with a beige backside, with or without diamond marking, and parts with a brown backside. Parts show windows in yellow or black, or only show bricks or bricks and roof. Some of the roof parts show a bird, and some wall parts a cat.

You take one part from stock - beige backs are free, brown ones cost a bonus chip - or from an opposing storage, cost one bonus chip. If you own four chips, you must spend one! Then you build: Next to a door or another part, the new part and/or from storage, so, maximum three parts in a turn, adjacent to a door or parts already placed. A part with windows must, with one edge, border a part with windows of the same color or a door or a wall without windows or a roof. You cannot build above a roof and doors can only be added to the ground floor, and gaps are not allowed. If you place a window part with a diamond marking, you earn a bonus chip. If nobody can build anymore or if the allover 7^th roof part showing a bird - all birds count, if built or in storage - is drawn, you score vertical rows of windows, doors and levels under roofs as well as all cats in your building. If your house is completely covered by a roof, you score one point per vertical row in the house.

Kensington is a very attractive family game; the graphic design fits the title exactly. The mechanisms and rules are simple and the shapes of the parts are varied enough to offer lots of option for constructing buildings that will yield a good score.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Team Cielo d’Oro

Artist: Kinetic

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2019

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Tile placement, house construction

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: cz de en fr hu it pl sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple mechanisms

Good rules with examples

Beautiful graphics suiting the topic

Compares to:

All tile placement games with house building topic

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0