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THE ENIGMA OF LEONARDO

Rows of Sybols for a Key

2011 Rightgames for the first time did bring Russian Games to Essen, among them The Enigma of Leonardo: In Leonardo da Vincis estate incredible amounts of illustrations and drawings were found. Players are tasked with deciphering the meaning of such drawings by finding all seven keys.

All cards are shuffled and you are dealt 10 cards face-down; you choose five without looking at them and lay them out on the table in the shape of a cross; then all cards are revealed and you take up your five remaining cards.

In a turn you first play a card, receive - maybe - a clue/key card and draw a card from the draw pile. Each card features two symbols and there are Key cards for every Symbol.

The card that you play replaces a card of your choice in your display; the card you remove is put into the display of your left neighbor, in the same location it took up in your display. The ousted card of your neighbor is discarded. When your own display then shows three identical symbols in a horizontal or vertical line, you receive the corresponding Key Card. With a card that comes into your display from the display of your right-hand neighbor you cannot earn a Key Card and you cannot collect more than one Key Card for one kind of symbol. Once in the game you can take any Key Card of your choice if you assemble five identical symbols in your display and you win the game if you own seven different Key Cards.

The Enigma of Leonardo is basically a set collecting game, the challenge of the game lies in taking into account the display of your neighbor; a tactically places card can block your neighbor from acquiring a Key Card.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 50+

Designer: Sergey Machin

Art: not named

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Rightgames 2011

Web: www.russianboardgames.com

Genre: Set collecting with card placement

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: en ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive component and design

Standard mechanisms interestingly varied due to including neighbors

Compares to:

All set collection games with arrangement specifications

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

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