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The Castle of the Devil

Game ID: GID0323771
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Year
2010
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Castle of the Devil is a 4-8 player card game.

All players are passengers within a carriage that is rushing to Devil's Castle. They each act as a member of a secret association, but no one knows who is friend and who is foe.

Each player starts in one of two secret associations. He also gets a secret profession with a special ability. So at the beginning of the game you have no information about the membership and the professions of the others. To win the game, each association has to collect 3 defined artifacts jointly. Therefore you have to find out who your allies are and where to find the artifacts among the other secret objects that are in possession of other players. You can get this information during the game either by trading objects with other players, because every object has a special ability, e.g. "Trade it in and you may take a look at your trading partners-association." or by struggling with other players, because the winner of a struggle can view the cards of the underdog and steal one of them. But be careful, all players can support the attacker OR defender in a struggle. If they know about your identity but you don't know theirs it may be risky to struggle.

Turn actions, one of:
Trade
Duel
Spy - Choose another player and draw one random object card from her/his hand. Look at this object without revealing it to the other players. Then give it back to her/him.
Declare Victory by naming your team and who has the three items, starting with yourself, OR declare the opposing team and their items.

If someone refuses a trade you offer, you get a duel token as compensation. These tokens are used as extra votes that can be applied in future duels.
Duels: Everyone declares sides secretly and simultaneously. Then anyone can apply items, professions and duel tokens in any order. Players must declare for one or the other and abstentions are not allowed.

Victory: Declare Victory by naming your team and who has the three items, starting with yourself, then one by one. If you name players on your team incorrectly or they don't have the object(s) you lose. You can also declare victory by announcing the opposing team and the members of that team holding their objects by naming them, as firstly part of the team, and secondly that they have a relevant object. If you get the player's team wrong or they don't have the object(s) you lose.

Reimplements: Die Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg

Description

Castle of the Devil is a 4-8 player card game.

All players are passengers within a carriage that is rushing to Devil's Castle. They each act as a member of a secret association, but no one knows who is friend and who is foe.

Each player starts in one of two secret associations. He also gets a secret profession with a special ability. So at the beginning of the game you have no information about the membership and the professions of the others. To win the game, each association has to collect 3 defined artifacts jointly. Therefore you have to find out who your allies are and where to find the artifacts among the other secret objects that are in possession of other players. You can get this information during the game either by trading objects with other players, because every object has a special ability, e.g. "Trade it in and you may take a look at your trading partners-association." or by struggling with other players, because the winner of a struggle can view the cards of the underdog and steal one of them. But be careful, all players can support the attacker OR defender in a struggle. If they know about your identity but you don't know theirs it may be risky to struggle.

Turn actions, one of:
Trade
Duel
Spy - Choose another player and draw one random object card from her/his hand. Look at this object without revealing it to the other players. Then give it back to her/him.
Declare Victory by naming your team and who has the three items, starting with yourself, OR declare the opposing team and their items.

If someone refuses a trade you offer, you get a duel token as compensation. These tokens are used as extra votes that can be applied in future duels.
Duels: Everyone declares sides secretly and simultaneously. Then anyone can apply items, professions and duel tokens in any order. Players must declare for one or the other and abstentions are not allowed.

Victory: Declare Victory by naming your team and who has the three items, starting with yourself, then one by one. If you name players on your team incorrectly or they don't have the object(s) you lose. You can also declare victory by announcing the opposing team and the members of that team holding their objects by naming them, as firstly part of the team, and secondly that they have a relevant object. If you get the player's team wrong or they don't have the object(s) you lose.

Reimplements: Die Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg

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Pros
  • Sounds like ooh
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  • Didn't remember a lot about it
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  • Social deduction
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  • So, because of that, I actually never got a copy of it um and haven't played it.
  • Um so, you drive cars around and shoot at each other. That's basically the game.
  • Looks like Carcassonne with Islands. That looks pretty good.
  • Do we need a card game version of it? And the answer to that is we really don't. Just play Camel Up.
  • This is a war game from Don Greenwood, Avalon Hill.
  • But if you like choose your own adventures type games, that's what this is.
  • It is a tile laying game that is about as exciting as it looks in this picture here.
  • So if you like Klask, um which is a fantastic two-player game, this is just a version for four.
  • I really like awkward guests, so why didn't I play the second one?
  • He gave it Seal of Approval. A seven out of 10. Well, there you go.
  • I think I'm going to have to go with the Bottom of it. It is a fantastic three-player trick-taking game that I like very much and think you definitely should check out.
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