Kingdomino

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Kingdomino
Typical game situation between two players
Typical game situation between two players
Game data
author Bruno Cathala
graphic Cyril bouquet
publishing company French : Blue Orange Games,
German : Pegasus Spiele ,
Dutch : White Goblin Games ,
Polish : Games Factory Publishing
Publishing year 2015 (France),
2016 (Germany)
Art Placement game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 15 to 20 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Kingdomino is a placement game by the French game designer Bruno Cathala . It was published in 2015 by the French publisher Le Grand Massif and in 2016 by the German publisher Pegasus Spiele .

In 2017 the game was nominated for the French game award As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année and for the game of the year , the latter game award it won.

Style of play

When King Domino is an evolution of the classic domino game . The aim of the players is to use the available placement tiles to expand the lands of their own kingdom so that at the end of the game it is the most valuable of the kingdoms.

The game material consists of the game instructions

  • 48 domino tiles with two spaces each,
  • 4 starting tiles with one space each,
  • 4 locks in the four player colors (yellow, green, blue and pink),
  • 8 wooden figures, two each in the four player colors, and
  • a cloth bag for drawing the tiles (replaced by a 3D tower in the new edition).

The front of the domino tiles show the different types of landscape: field, meadow, swamp, forest, mountains and lake, some with specific buildings and crowns, the backs are numbered.

Game preparation

At the beginning of the game, each player chooses a color and receives a starting tile, the corresponding castle and a wooden figure in the player's color, the king; In a game with two players, the players receive both wooden figures of the same color. The lock is placed on the starting tile. All domino tiles are put in the cloth bag, after which 24 (with two players) or 12 stones (with three players) are drawn and removed, depending on the number of players. In a game with four players, all domino tiles are required.

Game flow

Procedure per lap
  • Draw domino tiles for new display and reveal
  • each player takes his turn:
    1. Take domino tiles and place them in the kingdom
    2. Place the king on an empty tile in the new display

A game with three or four players runs over twelve rounds, with two players six rounds are played; In total, each player receives twelve domino tiles in one game. In the first round four domino tiles are drawn from the bag for two or four players and three domino tiles for three players and placed face down in the middle of the table with the number side up. Then they are sorted according to the numbering and turned over. The starting player is determined by taking the other players' figures in their closed hands and shuffling them, then dropping one. The player whose king falls out first places it on one of the tiles on display; then the other players follow. In a game with two players, the two players take turns placing one of their two pieces.

When the kings are placed on the first display, the tiles of the next display are drawn and placed next to the first display; these tiles are also sorted from top to bottom according to the numerical values. The domino tiles in the first display are now assigned to the corresponding kings from top to bottom; the players place them in their kingdom according to the placement rules. Each king that is released is immediately placed on a free tile in the new display.

The display in the kingdom results in an area of ​​5 by 5 fields, whereby the position of the starting tile within the area is up to the player. The players try to create areas of the various types of landscape that are as valuable as possible, whereby the number of neighboring fields and the crowns assigned to the buildings are evaluated. The first domino piece is placed on the starting tile; the following tiles must always be horizontal or vertical with at least one space adjacent to a space of an adjacent tile with the same landscape type or to the starting tile. At the same time, the tile must not protrude from the area of ​​5 by 5 fields. If it is not possible to place a domino tile correctly, it is removed from the game.

End of game and evaluation

The game ends when each player has received twelve domino tiles and all tiles have been removed from the bag. For the evaluation, the prestige or victory points are determined by evaluating all fields of a landscape type. The value of the areas is always determined from the number of the respective fields of a connected landscape type multiplied by the value of the buildings on them (sum of the crowns shown). The winner is the player with the most points, in the event of a tie, the player with the largest contiguous landscape. The maximum possible number of points for a 5x5 field is 141 (including 15 bonus points).

variants

The game instructions suggest a total of four variants in the form of optional additional rules, which can be combined as required:

  • Dynasty: The scoring is based on three successive single games, the winner is the player with the most total points.
  • Harmony: If a player can show a complete area of ​​5 by 5 fields without having to discard a tile, he receives 5 additional points.
  • Middle Kingdom: If a player's castle is in the middle of the kingdom at the end of the round, he receives 10 additional points.
  • The big duel: The big duel is a variant for the game with two players. In the duel, kingdoms with an area of ​​7 by 7 fields are formed from all 48 available domino tiles.

expenditure

The game Kingdomino was developed by Bruno Cathala and published in 2015 by the French publisher Le Grand Massif. In 2016, the game was also published in German by Pegasus Spiele , which brought it out for the 2016 International Game Days in Essen (SPIEL '16), as well as by various publishers internationally in different language and multilingual editions. In 2017, a revised new edition of Kingdomino added a scoring block and replaced the cloth bag with a three-dimensional tower. At the end of 2017, Kingdomino XXL was released, a version with particularly large dominoes.

Kingdomino: Age of Giants (Expansion)

With Kingdomino: Age of Giants , an expansion was released in 2018 that supplements the game with giants that destroy buildings (crowns) and task cards. It also includes game components for a fifth player.

Queendomino

With Queendomino , an independent game was released in 2017, which corresponds to Kingdomino in the basic rules , but adds construction sites, separately buildable buildings, coins, towers, soldiers, a dragon and a queen to the game. Combined with Kingdomino , Queendomino can be played with up to 8 players.

reception

The game received mostly positive reviews in numerous media. At BoardGameGeek , players rated it with an average of 7.5 out of 10 points (25th place out of around 2000 family games). In January 2017 it was nominated for the French As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année game award, but could not stand up to Unlock! push through. In May 2017 it was nominated for the Game of the Year game award and was able to prevail in the latter against the race to El Dorado and Magic Maze . The game won 6th place at the German Games Prize 2017, and it was also nominated for the Dutch Games Prize 2017.

supporting documents

  1. a b c d e f g h Game rules for Kingdomino at Pegasus games
  2. Versions of Kingdomino in the BoardGameGeek database; accessed on May 14, 2017.
  3. Kingdomino new edition and XXL , brettspiel-news.de, accessed March 6, 2019
  4. Kingdomino: Age of Giants (expansion) , pegasus.de, accessed March 6, 2019
  5. Game rules Queendomino , pegasus.de, accessed March 6, 2019
  6. La sélection des As d'or 2017. In: unmondedejeux.blog.lemonde.fr, January 26, 2017; accessed on May 14, 2017.
  7. Unlock! récompensé par l'As d'or, le prix du jeu de société de l'année. In: unmondedejeux.blog.lemonde.fr, February 23, 2017; accessed on May 14, 2017.
  8. Game of the Year , accessed May 23, 2017.
  9. 2017 award winners ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , spiel-essen.com, accessed October 8, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spiel-essen.com
  10. Familieprijs 2017: nominaties , nomination for the Dutch Game Prize 2017, 23 September 2017; accessed on October 21, 2017.

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