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Monday, June 2, 2008
Citadels?!

Contributed by FS0703 070618A Chan Ka Chun Patrick

Number of players: 2 – 8 (Recommend at least 5)

Playing time: 1 – 3 hours (8 players)

Introduction
Citadels is a mind-engaging game whereby players will assume various characters who possess unique abilities in your quest to build up a city, subsequently winning the game.
Good news for players who blame their bad luck: the beauty of this game is that the game mechanism largely eliminates random components, no dice throwing nor coin flipping. It is all about battle of wit, outwit and sabotages.
The more cunning and witty the players, the more fun and interactive the game play.

Game play
Each player is dealt four (4) district “building” cards and two (2) gold coins. Each turn, players will choose to draw card or gain gold coins. Gold coins are the currency for building the district cards from hand. Also, players are to select one (1) of the nine (9) characters whom they will assume for the duration of the turn. Each character has his / her unique abilities that can assist in your game play or sabotage other players. Once any player has built eight (8) districts, the game will end at the end of that round. Players will tabulate their scores mainly from the gold coin value of their district cards built. The player with highest score wins.


Character abilities
1. Assassin: Makes a player to skip his / her turn.
2. Thief: Steals all the gold coins from a player.
3. Magician: Swaps your cards in hand with either with another player or with the deck of cards.
4. King: First player of the round aka first player to choose the character cards aka most choices.
5. Bishop: Buildings cannot be destroyed by Warlord.
6. Merchant: One (1) free gold.
7. Architect: Two (2) free cards. Builds up to three (3) buildings instead of one (1).
8. Warlord: Destroys one (1) district at the expense of own gold coins.
9. Artist: Adds gold coins from your stash onto your district to increase the gold coin value of them and make them more expensive to be destroyed by Warlord.

Where to buy / play
Citadels is a card game that is commonly available at board game cafes such as Settler’s Café and Mind’s Café.

Alternatively, you can get your copy at Paradigm Infinitum in Ochard Road for $30+.
http://www.pi.com.sg/html/index.html

For more information, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadels_(game)

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