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If you enjoy other Euro board games then don’t even think twice about getting this game. It is great fun! There are so many different paths to victory that everyone has a chance of winning. And I absolutely love the dice rolling mechanic in this game. It is so unique. Basically everyone gets two dice and they roll them, but instead of adding them up you use them to either [1] get tiles from the center board, [2] place tiles on your personal board (i.e. your princedom), [3] sell goods which get you victory points and money, or [4] trade a die roll for workers that allow you to adjust your die rolls + or – 1 point. That’s it. Roll dice. Choose 1 of 4 options for each die. Repeat.

The object of the game is to get victory points by adding tiles to your princedom. Your princedom is divided into 6 different colored regions of varying sizes (1 – 8 hex tile slots). Each hex slot has a die number pictured on it that corresponds to your die roll. You can score victory points for placing different tiles, completing colored regions, or by selling goods (which also have corresponding die numbers pictured on them).

The best part about this game is all of the different decisions that you can make with each turn. Everyone can work toward completing a different colored region (which all have different benefits), or they can compete with each other to try and complete a like colored region. Or you can simply see that your opponent is attempting to complete a certain color that you are not and take those tiles from the board before they have a chance (evil). 🙂

This game is complex, but not complicated. And that is exactly what makes it so much fun! And once you’ve played a few rounds you’ll find that the complexity is not in the actual game play, it is in the vast array of decisions that you can make with every play. This is what makes me want to play it over and over. Every time I play I think of different things that I could have done to improve my strategy.

This is a great game, and one that I highly recommend!

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