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The young monarch has no knack for governing. Take advantage of this by taking on all the most prestigious government duties! Share cards, choose the most high-profile jobs...then experience an auction phase as belligerent as it is clever!
In For the King (and Me), you wish to become the most valuable minister by collecting the right cards while lowering the value of your opponents' objectives. The game plays the same as the designer's earlier game Biblios, while allowing for play with up to five people at once.
The game lasts multiple rounds with players first collecting cards, then bidding for cards. During the collection phase, as the active player you draw cards one at a time, keeping one for yourself, placing one in an auction pile, and placing the others face up for the other players to draft. Once you take a card, you can't take another, so sometimes it's a tough call to decide when you want to take something. Once you've had multiple collection phases, the cards in the auction pile will be auctioned one by one.
Some cards are worth points depending on their color, some are worth gold, and some allowing you to manipulate the value of the various colors. Once all the cards have been auctioned, players reveal their hands and tally their points to see who wins.
- worked okay
- like the library theme better
- library
- Biblios
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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- Interesting card distribution mechanism
- Strategic card placement
- Multiple paths to victory
- Complexity of rules
- Uncertainty in card economy
- Political Intrigue and Favor Gathering
- Royal Court
- Competitive Card Collecting
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — Players bid on cards in the favor deck using gold or discarding cards
- Card Distribution — Players take turns distributing cards to themselves, other players, and an auction pile
- Set Collection — Collecting government cards in different suits to win duty tiles
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The player with the most victory points from their titles at the end of the game wins
- Using King cards to modify the tiles might give away what cards you're prioritizing