Richelieu

The theme is the "journée des dupes", in 1630, when Mary of Medici tried to have the young Louis the XIIIth dismiss the Cardinal of Richelieu.

All the cards are placed face up on the game table, in 4 rows. Players, in turn, can take one or two cards at the end of the rows, the goal being to have the majority of cards in each color, as well as with some symbols.

Belongs to the Ravensburger Fun For 2 Series.

A re-release with different rules of the multi-player game Kardinal & König: das Kartenspiel.

Online Play

• http://www.mabiweb.com (turn-based, for 2 players)
• Yucata (turn-based, for 2 to 4 players (special variant))

The game is available for free download (print and play) at the designer's website: http://spiele-aus-timbuktu.de/richdown.html. This includes the rules and extra pieces for his 3-4 player variant:
- all players get 3 ownership markers (in a 4-player game, may only have 2 in play at any time)
- Scoring:
all players with most shields of a type score as many points as they have shields
no -5VP penalty for missing a region type
for each different _region_ collected +2VP

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