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The Court of Miracles

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  1. The Court of Miracles is a very enjoyable area control / bluffing game about dominance of 16th century Parisian slums, briefly mentioned here only once by our illustrious Mr. Lennon but which I feel deserves a touch more illumination. Drop hidden tokens representing your beggars, hoodlums, defrocked priests, and other unsavoury scum into one of five areas, and check for dominance once there are three such tokens or the Beggar King passes by on his ticking timer of an afternoon stroll. There are plenty of options for switching your tokens for superior versions and for manipulating tokens by moving them around or tripping the checks early, let alone being able to hedge against victory in order to steal money from the eventual winner, leading to all manner of complex and opportunistic ploys to swing the balance of power and to set your opponents against one another. The power swings were very enjoyable as holding the individual courts can be fleeting and there are clear routes to quickly tip the balance of power with a little effort in order to bring down an opponent who is getting a bit too big for their britches. There is also a deck of tarot style cards that allow for some tactical opportunism, and plenty of unique characters that you can upgrade your tokens to via the mechanism of murdering your ineffective goons and dumping them in the Seine. I enjoyed this quite a bit, it's not holding particularly strongly to its theme but works very well as a fun and slightly cranky power struggle. Looking forward to playing this some more, it hits a sweet spot for a quick and confrontational yet fulfilling filler.

  2. 8 out of 10

    GenCon 2022 Quick, easy to learn, worker placement, action selection. Strategic placement, but not much in the way of "take that". Players are never blocked from taking desired action.

  3. 7 out of 10

    Fun, easy to teach. No deep strategy as the randomness of the drawn rogues can throw off the early game.

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In The Court of Miracles, lead a guild of beggars, plot, use trickery and opportunism to build your renown and take over the old 16th century Paris.

Your goal is to establish your renown in Paris or to be the most influential when the Penniless King would have reached the end of his path…

At your turn, you may play a plot card, you have to place one of your (3) Rogue tokens, face down (secret ability), on any available spot in a neighborhood, and benefit from the effect of your spot (receive coins, draw plot cards or move the Penniless King forward along his path). You may then perform the action of the neighborhood.

When a neighborhood is fully occupied, settle a standoff revealing each player’s Rogue(s) token to know which player takes control of the neighborhood.
Controlling a neighborhood will reward you eat time another player perform its action.

You will be allowed to buy a 4th Rogue, cards or move the Penniless King Forward at the Renown Square.

Unless the Penniless King reaches the last space of his path before, the first player to place their 6th Renown token wins. Otherwise, the player with the most Renown tokens placed on the board wins the game.

Ages

10+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Play Time

40m – 40m
Designer

Guilhem Gautrand, Vincent Brugeas
Mechanics

Area Majority / Influence, Secret Unit Deployment, Worker Placement
Theme

Bluffing, Medieval
Publisher

BoardM Factory, Lumberjacks Studio, Lucky Duck Games
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