On penny and penny

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On penny and penny
Game data
author Pure Knizia
graphic Franz Vohwinkel
publishing company Hans im Glück ,
Fantasy Flight Games (from 2002 as Kingdoms )
Publishing year 1994
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 30 to 45 minutes
Age from 9 years

Awards

Auf Heller und Pfennig is a strategic board game by the German game designer Reiner Knizia , which was first published in 1994 by the publisher Hans im Glück .

In 2002, the game principle for the fantasy game Kingdoms was taken up and revised by the American publisher Fantasy Flight Games ; in the following years it was released internationally under license from several publishers. Another revision by Jeff Tidball appeared in 2007 as Beowulf: The Movie Board Game, also by Fantasy Flight Games, and in German as Beowulf: Das Spiel zum Film by Heidelberger Spieleverlag .

Background and game material

On Heller und Pfennig is a strategy game in which the players try to earn as much money as possible by placing market stalls and various value tiles on a given grid, while at the same time passing negative tiles to their opponents. The game material accordingly consists of a game board with a playing field of five by six fields, four colored sets of game pieces (market stalls with 1 to 4 goods) and a total of 22 tiles with affluent customers (12 with black numbers from 1 to 6), evil fellows ( 6 with red numbers from 1 to 6) as well as four special tiles (2 fire, one purse and one evil eye). In addition, a round counter, and play money comes in the form of coins having values of 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100 Hellern and pennies .

Game flow

To prepare for the game, each player receives a colored set of market stalls with 1 to 4 goods each. The game board is placed in the middle of the table and the tiles are shuffled face down, each player receives one of the tiles and the rest is placed ready for drawing. The money is placed ready and each player receives coins worth 50 pennies and pennies, the lap counter comes to position 1 out of three.

Starting with a starting player, the other players play in turns and each make a move. You can perform one of three possible actions per turn:

  1. place a market stall,
  2. draw a tile and place it face up on the playing field, or
  3. play their own starting tile.

In this way, the initially empty playing field is increasingly filled with market stalls and tiles. Whenever a horizontal or vertical row on the playing field is complete, it is evaluated and all players who have levels of their color in this row get their winnings or have to pay their loss from this row. The evaluation takes place depending on the tiles in the row and the value of the goods at the stands. These include:

  • Tiles with black numbers (wealthy customers) the coin value indicated on the tile as a positive value,
  • Tile with red numbers (bad fellows) the coin value indicated on the tile as a minus value,
  • the tile with the purse doubles the value of the row (positive and negative),
  • the fire tiles separate the row into two separate rows, which are scored individually and independently of each other, and
  • the evil eye ensures that all positive values ​​in the row are ignored and only the negative values ​​are counted.

The result of the tile scoring is multiplied by the number of goods values ​​that the individual players have in the accounted row. The respective players receive the result in the form of coins or have to pay the requested amount in the case of negative values.

When the last fields of the game board are filled and the last accounts have been made, the round ends. The round marker is moved forward one space and the next round is prepared like the start of the game. The game ends after three rounds and the player with the most money wins the game.

Expenses and reception

The game Auf Heller und Pfennig was developed by the German game designer Reiner Knizia and was published in 1994 by the game publisher Hans im Glück . In 2002, the game principle for the fantasy game Kingdoms was taken up and revised by the American publisher Fantasy Flight Games ; in the following years it was released internationally under license from several publishers. Another revision by Jeff Tidball appeared in 2007 as Beowulf: The Movie Board Game, also by Fantasy Flight Games, and in German as Beowulf: Das Spiel zum Film by Heidelberger Spieleverlag .

The game was voted seventh at the 1995 German Game Prize . As Kingdoms , the game won the Origins Award for Best Abstract Board Game of 2002.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d ' Description of the game and rules for the category , spielphase.de; accessed on October 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Versions of Auf Heller and Pfennig / Kingdoms in the BoardGameGeek database; accessed on October 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Beowulf: The game for the film in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on October 27, 2019.

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