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Game data
author Johannes Zirm
graphic Michael Menzel
publishing company Haba
Publishing year 2013
Art Placement game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration about 10 minutes
Age from 5 years

Awards

Richard Ritterschlag is a children's game by game designer Johannes Zirm . The placement game for two to four players, ages five and up, takes around 10 minutes per round. It was published by Haba in 2013 and was nominated for Children's Game of the Year the following year .

Theme and equipment

In the game, the players try to fulfill several tasks for the squire of the knight at a loss on a landscape to be laid out from triangular landscape cards. This is done by juxtaposing the landscape fields so that they each meet the requirements for their tasks. In addition to the instructions, the game material consists of 36 triangular landscape tiles, 18 task cards and a wooden figure of the knight at a loss.

Style of play

Before the game, the landscape tile with the castle as the starting tile is placed face up on the playing field. All other landscapes and also the task cards are shuffled, the landscape tiles are placed as a face-down deck of cards together with the knight figure on the edge of the field. The task cards are distributed evenly to the other players and laid out in front of them with the terrain side up.

The game is played in clockwise order with a starting player. The active player draws a landscape card from one of the decks and tries to place it on the tiles that are already on display. Each card shows either half a border field with a colored cross or at the top a sixth of a tournament area. The crosses can be matched in color and the tournament square segments and the empty sides can also be placed next to each other, but a cross field or a tournament square segment may never be placed on an empty side (meadow). If the tile doesn't fit anywhere, it is pushed face down under a pile and the other player receives a new tile until he can place one.

After the tile is placed, the player checks whether an action can be taken. This happens when either a field with two crosses of the same color or a complete tournament area has been created. If the player has completed a field with two crosses of the same color and if he has a task tile with a cross of this color, he may place it face up on the field and has completed this task. If the tile has created a complete tournament place, he has won a tournament and can place any task tile on the place.

In addition to these fields, there are also illustrations on the landscape tiles. Whenever a tile with a horse is placed, the knight figure of the knight at a loss (who is always looking for his horse) is placed on the tile. If a player places a landscape tile next to one on which the knight is standing, he may make another turn. On the next move, however, he may not use the knight a second time.

The game ends when a player has been able to put down his last task tile and wins the game. If no player succeeds in completing all tasks before all landscape cards have been laid out, the player or players with the fewest remaining tasks win.

Solo game

In addition to the rules for playing with several players, the rule also contains a solo game variant in which the player has to add various given figures with the triangular tiles, similar to a tangram . The mooring rules of the basic game apply.

Publication and reception

The game Richard Ritterschlag was developed by the game designer Johannes Zirm and was published by Haba in a multilingual version in German, Dutch, French, English, Italian and Spanish in 2013 for the international game days in Essen . HABA published it in different packaging for different countries. In 2016 Hobby World published an edition of the game in Russian.

The game was nominated for Children's Game of the Year in 2014 . The jury for children's game of the year described the game as follows:

“With a minimum of material and rules, the author Johannes Zirm creates the material from which the great hero stories are made. Little by little, a world of knights that is as atmospheric as it is tongue-in-cheek is spreading, into which the players are always happy to immerse themselves, whether alone or in a group. Then they are ready for bigger tasks - also at the gaming table. "

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f game instructions Richard Ritterschlag , HABA 2013
  2. ^ Richard Ritterschlag , versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Richard Ritterschlag on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on September 29, 2019

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