Citadels (2000)
Playtime: 60
Min. Age: 10
Players: 2 - 8
Publisher: 999 Games, Laser plus, Kaissa Chess & Games, Fantasy Shop, Houpaa, Brain Games, Midgaard Games, Windrider Games, E L & M Productions, Siam Board Games, Hobby World, Arclight Games, Enigma (Bergsala Enigma), Fantasy Flight Games, Delta Vision Publishing, Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., Giochi Uniti, MultiSim, Ігромаг, Hans im Glück, Smart Ltd, Korea Boardgames, Schmidt Spiele, Galakta, Nexus Editrice, Fantasiapelit, Galápagos Jogos, Silver Stars Publishing, Edge Entertainment, Millenium, cutia.ro, MINDOK, Z-Man Games, KADABRA
Designers: Bruno Faidutti
Artists: Florence Magnin, Jean-Louis Mourier, Didier Graffet, Bruno Faidutti, Richard Spicer, Brian Schomburg, Jesper Ejsing, Bjarne Hansen, Christian T. Petersen, Darrell Hardy, Hassan Nozadian, Julien Delval, Cyrille Daujean, Scott Nicely
Mechanics: Turn Order: Role Order, Lose a Turn, Set Collection, Take That, Action Drafting, Income, Closed Drafting, Variable Player Powers
Min. Age: 10
Players: 2 - 8
Publisher: 999 Games, Laser plus, Kaissa Chess & Games, Fantasy Shop, Houpaa, Brain Games, Midgaard Games, Windrider Games, E L & M Productions, Siam Board Games, Hobby World, Arclight Games, Enigma (Bergsala Enigma), Fantasy Flight Games, Delta Vision Publishing, Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., Giochi Uniti, MultiSim, Ігромаг, Hans im Glück, Smart Ltd, Korea Boardgames, Schmidt Spiele, Galakta, Nexus Editrice, Fantasiapelit, Galápagos Jogos, Silver Stars Publishing, Edge Entertainment, Millenium, cutia.ro, MINDOK, Z-Man Games, KADABRA
Designers: Bruno Faidutti
Artists: Florence Magnin, Jean-Louis Mourier, Didier Graffet, Bruno Faidutti, Richard Spicer, Brian Schomburg, Jesper Ejsing, Bjarne Hansen, Christian T. Petersen, Darrell Hardy, Hassan Nozadian, Julien Delval, Cyrille Daujean, Scott Nicely
Mechanics: Turn Order: Role Order, Lose a Turn, Set Collection, Take That, Action Drafting, Income, Closed Drafting, Variable Player Powers
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In Citadels, players take on new roles each round to represent characters they hire in order to help them acquire gold and erect buildings. The game ends at the close of a round in which a player erects his/her eighth building. Players then tally their points, and the player with the highest score wins.
Players start with a number of building cards in their hand; buildings come in five colors, with the purple buildings typically having a special ability and the other colored buildings providing a benefit when you play particular characters. At the start of each round, the player who was king the previous round discards one of the eight character cards at random, chooses one, then passes the cards to the next player, etc. until each player has secretly chosen a character. Each character has a special ability, and the usefulness of any character depends upon your situation, and that of your opponents. The characters then carry out their actions in numerical order: the assassin eliminating another character for the round, the thief stealing all gold from another character, the wizard swapping building cards with another player, the warlord optionally destroys a building in play, and so on.
On a turn, a player earns two or more gold (or draws two building cards then discards one), then optionally constructs one building (or up to three if playing the architect this round). Buildings cost gold equal to the number of symbols on them, and each building is worth a certain number of points. In addition to points from buildings, at the end of the game a player scores bonus points for having eight buildings or buildings of all five colors.
The expansion Citadels: The Dark City was initially released as a separate item, but the second edition of the game from Hans im Glück (packaged in a tin box) and the third edition from Fantasy Flight Games included this expansion and can be recognized by its rectangular box (not square). With Dark City, Citadels supports a maximum of eight players.
Players start with a number of building cards in their hand; buildings come in five colors, with the purple buildings typically having a special ability and the other colored buildings providing a benefit when you play particular characters. At the start of each round, the player who was king the previous round discards one of the eight character cards at random, chooses one, then passes the cards to the next player, etc. until each player has secretly chosen a character. Each character has a special ability, and the usefulness of any character depends upon your situation, and that of your opponents. The characters then carry out their actions in numerical order: the assassin eliminating another character for the round, the thief stealing all gold from another character, the wizard swapping building cards with another player, the warlord optionally destroys a building in play, and so on.
On a turn, a player earns two or more gold (or draws two building cards then discards one), then optionally constructs one building (or up to three if playing the architect this round). Buildings cost gold equal to the number of symbols on them, and each building is worth a certain number of points. In addition to points from buildings, at the end of the game a player scores bonus points for having eight buildings or buildings of all five colors.
The expansion Citadels: The Dark City was initially released as a separate item, but the second edition of the game from Hans im Glück (packaged in a tin box) and the third edition from Fantasy Flight Games included this expansion and can be recognized by its rectangular box (not square). With Dark City, Citadels supports a maximum of eight players.
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The game was also published under these names:
Citadels Classic ,
Spletke: Citadele & Temno Mesto ,
Ciudadelas Clásico ,
Καστροπολιτείες ,
あやつり人形 クラシック ,
ศึกสร้างเมือง ,
Цитадели ,
Ohne Furcht und Adel ,
Dej (دژ) ,
Citadels ,
Citadelės ,
Tsitadell ,
Spletke ,
Πατρίκιοι και Πληβείοι ,
荣耀之城：经典版 ,
Cidadelas clássico ,
Citadelles ,
Citadelă ,
Ciudadelas ,
Ohne Furcht und Adel inkl. der Erweiterung Die dunklen Lande ,
Cytadela ,
富饶之城 ,
Citadella ,
Цитаделі ,
あやつり人形 ,
Citadeles ,
Machiavelli ,
시타델 ,
Citadela ,
Citadele ,
富饒之城 ,
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