King of New York (game)

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King of New York
Game data
author Richard Garfield
graphic Gabriel Butik u. a.
publishing company Iello
(Distribution: Heidelberger Spieleverlag , Hutter Trade )
Publishing year 2014
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 6
Duration 40 minutes
Age from 10 years on

King of New York is a cube - board game of the American game designers Richard Garfield from the year 2014. The game for two to six players aged ten and takes about 40 minutes per game. It is based on the predecessor King of Tokyo and, like this one, is a dice game with a mechanism similar to dice poker games (such as Yahtzee or Kniffel ). Thematically, it is based on the Godzilla films. The aim of the players is to conquer the city of New York City with a gigantic monster .

Theme and equipment

Like its predecessor, King of Tokyo , the game King of New York is thematically based on the Japanese and American Godzilla films and the goal of the players is to conquer New York City and especially Manhattan with their own gigantic monster . You can do this either when you reach 20 victory points (stars) on your player board or you injure all other monsters to such an extent that they no longer have any life points (hearts).

In addition to the instructions, the contents of the game box consist of:

  • a game board with a map of New York and its boroughs Manhattan, Staten Island , Bronx , Queens and Brooklyn
  • six monster figures (Captain Fish, Drakonis, Rob, Kong, Sheriff and Mantis)
  • six player boards for the corresponding monsters with victory and health point display
  • six black and two green six-sided dice
  • 64 cards and 2 special cards (Statue of Liberty, Superstar)
  • numerous chunks of energy
  • 46 tokens (13 × net, 13 × curse, 5 × souvenir and 15 × armor)
  • 45 building / unit tiles printed on both sides

In terms of playing style, King of New York largely corresponds to its predecessor King of Tokyo , but some elements are added. In addition to the different cards with the two special cards, the main difference lies in the building and unit tiles, which the people fighting against the attacking monsters bring in as an additional element. Other differences are the game board, which consists of several parts of the city, and the slightly different dice.

Style of play

In King of New York , each player chooses a monster figure and the corresponding tableau at the beginning. The game board and the shuffled cards are placed in the center of the table. From the deck of cards, three cards are turned up and placed next to the game board, plus the two face-up special cards Statue of Liberty and Superstar . In each district, three building tiles are laid out in a stack with the building side up. The players put 0 victory points (stars) and 10 life points (hearts) on their tableau, then they place their monster figure in any part of town outside of Manhattan.

The starting player is determined and he rolls the six black dice. The dice each show six different dice symbols. Each player has three throws per round and, similar to the trick game, can choose any number of dice and set them aside. Then he rolls the dice two more times and selects the dice that he would like to score. This applies to all dice symbols with the exception of the skull , which has to stay where it is and be scored. The results of the throws are evaluated and the corresponding actions are taken.

Dice icon Rating
star As long as the players roll fewer than three stars, these have no effect. As soon as a player has rolled three stars, he receives the special card Superstar and places it in front of him. He receives one victory point and one more for each additional star. As long as the card is in front of the player, he receives one victory point for each star. If another player manages to throw the three stars, he gets the card.
heart The player receives one health point for each heart symbol (not applicable for the player in Manhattan).
lightning The player receives a chunk of energy for each lightning symbol.
claw A player outside of Manhattan deals 1 damage to the monster in Manhattan. If the player is in Manhattan, he deals one point of damage to all players outside of Manhattan. The damage is deducted from the health points.
destroyed skyscraper With each destroyed skyscraper, the player destroys a resistance point of one of the buildings or units in his district. If a player rolls as many destroyed high-rise buildings as is shown on one of the building tiles, he can destroy it. He receives the corresponding number of victory points (for high-rise buildings and tanks) or energy chunks (for power plants and jets), which are shown on the tile. If he destroys a building, he turns the tile over to the unit side and reveals a new building underneath; if he destroys a unit, he removes it from the game.
Skull When a player collects skulls, units in the districts open fire on the monsters. With a skull, only the own monster is attacked and receives one point of damage per unit in the district. If there are two skulls, the troops attack all monsters in the same district and if there are three skulls, all monsters on the board are attacked by the respective units. In addition, a player who rolled three skulls receives the special card Statue of Liberty, which is worth three victory points as long as it is in front of a player.

In the game there is always one player with his monster in Manhattan, in a game with five or six players there is always two monsters. In the first round the starting player has to go to Lower Manhattan after scoring the dice. A player who goes to Lower Manhattan receives one victory point for this. If he stays there long enough to start his next round again in Manhattan, he gets another victory point and a chunk of energy and moves on to Midtown Manhattan. If he stays here for one round, he gets two victory points and one chunk of energy and goes to Upper Manhattan, where he can get two victory points and two chunks of energy every further round. As long as a monster is in Manhattan, all other players can inflict damage to it by their throws and he himself can injure all other players - however, unlike these, he cannot use healing points (hearts) while he is in Manhattan. If a monster in Manhattan is damaged, the player can decide to leave the city at the end of the round. In that case, the player who distributed the damage must conquer Manhattan.

After scoring the dice, the active player's monster moves to another city district that does not yet have two monsters. At the end of the day, a player's chunks of energy can be used to buy cards on display, which enable various special actions and evaluations and, depending on the card type, can either be used directly (“discard”) or as a permanent option (“keep”).

A player running out of health points loses his monster and is eliminated from the game. The winner is the player who first reaches 20 victory points or is the last to be left after all other players have been eliminated.

Power up!

King of New York: Power up! appeared in 2016 as the first official expansion for King of New York in English-speaking countries. In addition to the new Mega Shark monster, it contains a set of eight evolution cards for each monster, with which the player can upgrade his monster. This happens when the player has three hearts at the end of his die roll and wants to use them for evolution. This extension was published again in German by iello in 2019.

More monsters and expansions

The previous game King of Tokyo , released in 2011, and the additions King of Tokyo: Power up! and King of Tokyo: Halloween each contain their own monsters adapted to Tokyo as a location, but which can also be used for the game King of New York due to the identical monster tableau . In King of Tokyo: Halloween also an additional card for was King of Tokyo included.

After the appearance of King of New York , additional cards and monsters appeared for both games as promotional materials (promos) and supplements, for example from Heidelberger Spieleverlag and Dice Tower. In 2017, iello released Cthulhu and King Kong in their own monster packs, each with their own monster packs, with corresponding Power-up! Cards, building markers and other markers that were issued and can be used for King of Tokyo and King of New York . While Cthulhu was already available in Germany in 2017, King Kong will not appear until spring 2018.

Expenses and reception

The game King of New York was developed by Richard Garfield , who is best known for the card game Magic: The Gathering , based on King of Tokyo and published in several languages ​​in 2014 by the game publisher Iello . In Germany, it was distributed from 2014 by the Heidelberger Spieleverlag , now Asmodee. In 2017 Iello released a new edition of the game, which is distributed through Hutter Trade .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Game instructions King of New York ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hutter-trade.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2nd edition 2017
  2. ↑ Expansions by King of Tokyo in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on December 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Versions of King of Tokyo in the BoardGameGeek game database; accessed on December 7, 2017.

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