Anno Domini (game)

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Anno Domini
Game data
author Urs Hostettler
graphic Res Brandenberger
publishing company Fata Morgana , Abacus
Publishing year from 1998
Art Card game
Teammates 3 to 8
Duration 60 minutes
Age from 12 years

Awards

À la carte card game award 1999: 3rd place

Anno Domini is a knowledge and bluff game in the form of a card game by Urs Hostettler . The game is about putting events in their historical order. In the meantime, 33 different issues of this series with a total of over 10,000 events have been published.

General

The game first hit the game market in 1998. It is aimed at 3 to 8 players aged 12 and over (different depending on the topic). A game lasts about 60 minutes.

The publishers Fata Morgana (Switzerland) and Abacus (Germany) have already published 33 normal card sets, each with 336 to 340 cards and the following subject areas.

expenditure

No. Surname Publishing year Number of cards comment
1 Church & State 1998 336
2 Switzerland 1998 336
3 Sex & Crime 1998 336
4th Lifestyle 1998 336
5 nature 1998 336
6th Inventions 1999 336
7th Women 1999 336
8th Seafarers & Aviators 1999 336
9 Sports 2000 336
10 art 2001 336
11 Flopps 2001 336
12 Germany 2002 336
13 Coins 2002 336
14th In the name of the law 2003 336
15th VIP 2004 336
16 game of the year 2004 336
17th Health & Nutrition 2005 336 60–90 cards are used from this,
for issues 29/30.
17a Saxony 2005 336 no longer available
was only published by Abacus
18th Austria 2006 336
19th Word, writing & book 2007 336
20th Showbizz 2008 336
21st America 2009 336
22nd Europe 2009 340
23 In the East 2010 340
24 south 2011 340
25th Soccer 2012 340 "Deswiss" version of
the "Twelve" edition
26th science and research 2014 340
27 Bern 2014 340
28 Travel & Transport 2015 340
29 health 2016 340 consists partly (approx. 60–90) of cards
from "Health and Nutrition".
30th Eat Drink 2016 340 consists partly (approx. 60–90) of cards
from "Health and Nutrition".
31 Curiosities 2018 340
32 machinery 2020

Special editions

Miniseries

Surname editor Publishing year Number of cards Number range
25Y. Jury game of the year Spielbox (Issue 3–5 / 2003) 2003 99 S1-S99
Soccer World Cup Play Millions of Swallows 2006 54 6741-6794
Mixed edition Abacus / play box 2015 72 U001-U072
Saxony State Parliament of Saxony 2003 112 nb

Big series

Surname editor Publishing year Number of cards
Experience Brugg City of Brugg 2005
Soccer Football magazine twelve 2010 336
Hanover & Germany HAZ 2011 340
Unilever Unilever 2003 336

Material and rules

A historical event is briefly described on the front of each card, the date and sometimes further explanations are on the back.

At the beginning of the game each player receives an equal number of cards, of which he can only look at the front. A starting card is placed in the middle. Now the players in turn place cards in front of, between or behind the cards in the middle, thus forming a time series. This continues until a player doubts that all events are still in the correct order. Then the cards are turned over and the correctness is checked on the basis of the times indicated on the back. If the row is correct , the doubter has to take new cards from the pile; if it is wrong, his predecessor receives more cards. (Even if the mistake happened earlier, but was not noticed before.) Then a new row is started with a new start card. If a player places his last card, the time series is checked immediately. If it is correct, he wins the game.

The events described on the cards rarely come from historical school knowledge . Therefore, they can usually only be roughly classified and skillful bluffing is often more important than knowledge of history.

Awards

error

Many of the versions have errors. A list of corrections can be found on the game developer's website.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Official Anno Domini website at Fata Morgana Spiele
  2. ↑ List of errors and corrections