Dan Blum
United States
Wilmington
Massachusetts
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A number of things were changed in the Queen edition from the original Hexagames publication (I believe the Avalanche edition has the same rules as the Queen edition, but I haven't checked). The Hexagames version has these differences from the later versions:
1. The trading rule that you can only mention up to two types of cards, conjoined with "and" or "or," is not present. You still have to either say which cards you are offering or which cards you are looking for - you can't specify both - but this more specific rule is not present. (I should note that all the Hexagames examples do happen to follow the Queen rule.)
2. Before drawing his or her normal cards, a player may turn in one pair of identical cards to draw an additional culture card. If these are culture cards they are removed from the game, if people cards they are placed in a face-up discard pile.
3. Each player always draws one culture card for each set of people cards played, plus one people card (as long as there are any left). Players are not restricted to drawing a maximum of three cards.
4. If there are discarded people cards, a player may forgo one culture card draw on his or her turn to take the top discard instead.
5. No points are awarded for sets of people cards - you score only for scoring cards and pairs left in hand (the Hexagames English rules imply an additional type of scoring - they are a bit muddled - but examination of the German rules reveals that there isn't one).
6. The scoring cards are slightly different - they are 9, 8, 8, 7, 6, 6, 5, 4, 4, 3 instead of 9, 8, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4.
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Ryan O'Rourke
United States
Tobyhanna
Pennsylvania
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So for those who have played both ways, do you have any comments or preferences? Does anyone combine what they feel is the best of both rulesets?
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