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Game Info
Year
2017
Players
3-6
Age
14+
Playtime
45 min
Collection
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Description
In the time of King Arthur, knights displayed their skill and prowess at tournaments held throughout the land.
In Tournament at Camelot, you play as a legendary character who is battling opponents with weapon cards: arrows, swords, deception, sorcery, and even alchemy. The more you injure your opponents, the better you fare in the tournament. However, even the most injured characters can make a complete comeback with the grace of Godsend cards and the aid of their special companions.
This trick-taking game ends when one opponent has been injured to the point of death. The player with the most health is then declared the tournament victor!
—description from the publisher
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Meeple University Analysis at 13:08
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- evasion style — Players try to avoid taking tricks because some cards are worth negative points, and other cards have special powers that can change the rules of the tricks.
- Trick-Taking
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- there's a lot of jargon a lot of terms in trick-taking games
- so a standard trick-taking game each player will be dealt a hand of equal size and then in a trick one player chooses a card any card from the hand to lead
- and then after everyone has played a the right suit not direct numbered oh yeah the number number doesn't matter it just has to be matching the lead suit
- so essentially once all the cards are played whoever's play the highest Trump wins the trick
- players are only really allowed to communicate by the card they play
- it's called an evasion style of trick-taking game
- and the most basic game is you've got a hand and whoever takes the most track tricks wins
- the difference between old trick-taking games and modern trick-taking games is more chaos more options and therefore more strategy or more tactical play on the cards you've got
- it's kind of the first deck builder
- so the premise there is that you get your cards and you work out how many tricks you think you'll be able to take with those cards
- often I see the question what is the best modern trick-taking game I haven't found anything that I've enjoyed more than five hundred
- Becoming more and more popular these days as well
- I quite enjoyed the new efficient so be I should try to play the old-fashioned as well
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kovray Discussion at 2:19 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- strong theme integration
- beautiful art and components
- two-player variant exists
Cons
- potentially inaccessible if out of print or hard to obtain
Thematic elements
- knights, tournaments, melee combat within trick-taking structure
- Camelot / Arthurian mythos
- cards carry story snippets on the back; each trick is a mini-melee
Comparison games
- Camelot
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Catch-Up — grail cards grant advantages to catch up or disrupt opponents
- Catch-up mechanics — grail cards grant advantages to catch up or disrupt opponents
- Trick-Taking — players compete to win tricks; lead determines play order and follow rules
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- "one of the most underrated, most thematic trick-taking games out there"
- "cooperative trick taking game, but there's a hidden trader"
- "neat connection between its theme and its mechanisms"
- "this is not a persuasive essay to convince you that arcs is a trick-taking game"
- "Skull King is one of those games where every round has a big moment"
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