Live the king!

Lives the king! or Viva it Re! in its Italian original version is a board game created by Stefano Luperto and published in French by Tilsit and daVinci Games.

1 plan of play representing the stages of a castle
13 characters
26 charts of secret objective
18 charts of votes (including 6 yes and 12 of veto)
6 markers of score
1 crown.

Goal of the play

The goal of the play is to do the utmost of points after 3 handles, while trying as well as possible to place its partisans at the court.

Installation

At the beginning of each part, the players choose their marker of point and yes receive a chart of their color and a number of veto.

Course of a sleeve

Each handle ends in the election of the King. Each day in with each handle receives a new secret objective, containing the list of the 6 characters of its faction. With the beginning of a news sleeve, each one in its turn, the players lay out on the level segmented in 5 stages, the figurines of the characters by not forgetting that there cannot be more than 4 figurine by stage.

Once the finished installation, begins the play. Each player can make assemble of a stage the figurine of his choice. Then it is with the turn of the following player

If a player wants to cause a vote for the election under king, it must assemble a figurine on the last floor. The votes are simultaneous. If a figurine does not gain a unanimity of votes yes, it is isolated sleeve; One also draws aside the charts of veto posed, the charts of yes return in the hand of their owner.

If the king is elected unanimously, the sleeve finishes and the points its counted, according to the position of the characters determined by the chart of secret objective on the plan. The points are marked, and a news sleeve begins.

Interest of the play

Behind an apparent simplicity of the rules, a deep tactical and psychological complexity is hiding place. Not introducing or little random variable, the whole of the play are based on the bluff and the determination secret objectives players. A share of probability is concerned, because each character represents a hope of profit according to his position on the plan. Actually, the unanimity is far from being difficult to obtain, certain players agree quickly on a common king who gives 10 point from the start. Nevertheless the election is often the place of the scaffold. It is sometimes interesting to open a vote on an enemy character to get rid some.

The intrigues which it is necessary to read in the eyes of the adversary, as well as the decoding of the actions and the reactions of the players, make of this simple and fast play, a play based on human factors, rather than on the tactics.

External bonds

presentation on the site of the editor
rules of the game in French