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The Hobbit

Das Kartenspiel

Bilbo Beutlin joins a Fellowship of 13 Dwarves and Magician Gandalf in a journey to win back the Dwarven treasure stolen a long time ago by Smaug the Dragon.

Playes move from location to location and place cards next to the locations. Depending on the number of players different numbers of locations are in play, they are stacked in ascending order, Location One is laid out first. Each player holds 18 character cards of one color as a face-down stack in front of him and draws five cards from this stack in hand.

In your turn you place cards next to the location, open-faced, one or more than one, which you place in empty spots or on top of cards already in place. You can cover Gollum with any card, can place only dwarves on Bilbo; Gandalf can be placed on Bilbo and dwarves and Gollum in turn on any card. But you may only play Gollum or dwarves or Gandalf in a turn, together with any number of Bilbo cards. The order in which you play the card is up to you. You can play Bilbo also without any other card. If you play Thorin you force the next player to pass his turn. When eight cards are laid out around a location, you receive gems if you have most or second most characters of your color visible at a location. The next location is placed next to a card played for the previous location. When all locations have been scored you win with most gems in this basically abstract placement game for majorities, getting its topic just from illustration from the film; there is some tactic due to the placement of cards already in preparation for the next location. All in all a good, family-friendly card placement game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Art: vitamin-be.de

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2012

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Card placement game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Mechansism from Der Herr der Ringe Die Gefährten Das Kartenspiel, varied and simplified

Basically abstract placement game for majorities

Illustrations provide topic relation

Compares to:

Der Herr der Ringe Die Gefährten Das Kartenspiel

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

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