One of the Best Ever Designed

 by Christine Biancheria

This game comes from a top design time and is flawless. It plays best with 4 to 5 players. Players jockey for majority control of various territories. Each turn, players bid for turn order, and the more you bid, the less you can do when your turn comes around. A turn basically consists of choosing from 5 action cards, or however many remain when your turn comes up. These action cards allow you to place, remove and move markers on the board to try to gain majority control for the scoring rounds, which pop up every third round. Scoring is tense and exciting. Additionally, players, on their turn, may throw markers into the Castillo, a structure on the board that hides its contents. This makes for some excitement during scoring rounds, when the contents are revealed, and each player chooses where to send these hidden pieces. All in all, a tense and fantastic game.

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