Blue Orange Games Kingdomino

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Followed stories about this game (and bought before Queendomino was released). I wanted a game that was: 1. Quick 2. Easy to understand (that my children could play) 3. A visual delight This game delivered on all of these. Don't be fooled into thinking this game is too simplistic to have any depth of play, there is still elements of strategy and forward planning involved. The artwork is incredible when you look closely (spot the wide-eyed frightened sheep on the dragon shadowed grass tile). Recommended for those who would like a quick and simple game to play with family or friends.

TL;DR - Easy to learn, layers of strategy, excellent components, short play time, excellent replay value, perfect filler game between epic sessions for the heavy complexity gamers. Grab two! Kingdomino is a really entertaining light filler game that deservingly won the 2017 Spiel des Jahres award given to the best game of the year for casual players (dedicated hobby gamers look to the Kennerspiele des Jahres for the heavier games that appear to the more addicted). It is a great entryway to tabletop gaming in a small, teachable format. The components are of high quality - Blue Orange has done a marvelous job producing this game in a manner befitting such a high-caliber experience. The play is simple - you are building your kingdom by selecting one of three or four (depending on player count) available tiles representing one or two land types,and possibly a number of crowns. You draft the piece in turn order, but the piece you select also determines your draft order the following turn. The pieces are numbered on the back and laid out lowest to highest each turn before the draft - the player who selects the lowest numbered tile will select first the following round. When the tiles are all selected, you add them to your kingdom, keeping in mind that the maximum size for your kingdom is 5x5 and each tile is 2x1. How you place the tile is fairly simple as well - at least one of the two land types must be placed against an existing land of the same type or against your castle (effectively making your castle a wild tile). If you cannot place a specific tile, either because no matching land types exist, or it extends beyond the required 5x5 dimension, you discard the tile. When the draft pile has been exhausted, the players total their points by calculating the number of ordinal contiguous tiles of the same type and multiplying it by the number of crowns in that contiguous land mass. As you can see, crowns are critical to scoring, because even a 10 space forest has no points unless a crown exists on one of them! Adding further strategy is the land types vary significantly with the distribution of tiles and the crowns on those tiles - there are only 6 caverns, and five of them average 2 crowns - a well placed cave system can be a viable route to victory, whereas there are 26 fields but only 6 of them have crowns, and a single one at that. Looking at the attached completed game board picture: 1. Note that there's a castle piece located in the 4th row 4th column - there is no requirement that your castle end up in the center of your kingdom. 2. Scoring the completed board starting from the top right: A. A two square Lake scores zero points (no crowns) B. The Swamp that begins in row 3 covers 8 squares and there are 3 crowns total, scores 24 points. C. The Mountain range at the bottom left is two squares with four crowns for 8 points. D. The Wheat fields starting at row 1 column 2 has 4 squares with one crown for 4 points. E. The Pasture located on the bottom row scores zero points for two squares with no crowns. F. The single Mountain in row 1 scores 2 points for 2 crowns in a 1x1 plot. G. The Forest next door has zero value, as does the 2 square Lake below it, no crowns anywhere. H. Finally the Forest at the bottom right has two squares and two crowns for 4 points The final score for this board is: 42 points (a pretty strong score) on the power of a huge swamp with three crowns. Diagram of the completed picture for reference: L W W M F L S W W L S S S S L M S S X F M S P P F (L=Lake, P=Pasture, W=Wheat, M=Mountain, S=Swamp, G=Grassland, X=Castle) Final thoughts: I can cite nothing that I dislike about this game. It has definite replayability, and is asked for with some regularity at my home and on game day. GET A SECOND COPY and play 7x7 kingdoms, for even more challenge and a deeper level of strategy!

Zum Spiel selber möchte ich nichts schreiben, es existieren ja genug Rezensionen. Hier nur ein Warnhinweis zu diesem Artikel: Hier scheinen alle möglichen internationalen Anbieter ihre Exemplare zu verkaufen, sodass die Angaben nicht immer stimmen, da die Ausgaben leicht variieren. Obwohl hier auf Amazon (Stand: 12.9.17) angegeben wurde, dass die Regeln mehrsprachig sind, bekam ich eine rein französische Ausgabe mit französischen Regeln zugesendet. Die Regeln sind natürlich einfach und auch online zu finden, trotzdem sollte ein Kunde wissen, was er bekommt.

i host a games night every couple weeks where we play easy to learn, fun to play games in a more social setting. i picked this up after hearing about it from a friend, seeing it won awards and finally of course there was a great deal on amazon. the first thing i noticed is the game box has an insert with spaces to properly organize the game pieces which i really like and wish more games would do. the game itself is pretty basic, easy to pick up and quick to finish. the strategy here is overall pretty mild, and someone who has played before will gain an advantage because they are familiar with the tiles and know roughly how common some kinds are and how many points they may yield at the end. to sum it up, players build their own separate kingdoms using tiles. players select tiles in order with the player who chose the lowest point value tile last round going first, then continuing through to the player that took the largest value tile last round. so taking lower value tile means you get earlier pick of tiles next round. tiles are used to build a kingdom by adjoining tiles showing similar terrains, different terrains yield varying point values. at the end, points are awarded based on connected tiles of similar terrain, and added up. this game is fun and enjoyable, but the strategy is fairly limited and simple. in fact it led me to recognize something about the award they won, "best family strategy game". family means its for little kids, and that sums this game up pretty much. the level of strategy in this game is good for a beginner player of strategy games and children, and even then they will likely outgrow this level of strategy fairly soon. on the plus side, i have received QueenDomino as a gift and that can be combined with this game to have more players, as well as also adding much more strategy. i have not played, but reading the rules, QueenDomino seems to add more strategy and ways to score, though i noticed overall it seems to be very similar to Carcassonne, but each player builds their own map, rather than collaborate.

We love this game, it's been a great edition to our family board game collection. We play with our 7yr old, once we got through the instructions, it was pretty easy to play, a game takes about 10-15 minutes which is perfect.