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Trickerion: Legends of Illusion

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  1. 10 out of 10

    My very first heavy board game. Seriously I'm still very in love with this game until today although we don't have much chance to play it again due to have too many new games. This game is about magician going to hire staff for magic show, buy ingredient to learn/prepare magic show, schedule for theater time slot, then perform and earn points! The unique mechanism is at the theater part where it's up to how fast you place down the hot spot before others. It's a damn pretty nice worker placement game.

  2. 3 out of 10

    The game gets worse the more plays in. Ordering components and acquiring new tricks stops the game dead in its tracks in the mid and late game when it's important to analyze who has what tricks and resources. As players gain experience with replays, the tricks booklet becomes more the focus and it's an AP nightmare, even ignoring the drudgery that is late game theatre manipulation with even more symbol matching. On top of that, the 36 fame tricks are poorly balanced with some trivial high scorers and others being realistically capped in single digits. Worker placement programming is good but the rest of it revolves around waiting for players to match symbols in increasingly complex permutations. Hours of downtime.

  3. 5 out of 10

    Interesting design but it's too difficult to get new assistants, tricks and money. This difficulty makes it hard to plan so the game is a lot less enjoyable than it could be.

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Trickerion is a competitive Euro-style strategy game set in a fictional world inspired by the late 19th century urban life and culture, spiced with a pinch of supernatural.

Players take on the roles of rival stage illusionists, each with their own strengths and characteristics. They are striving for fortune and fame in a competition hosted by a legendary magician, looking for a successor worthy of the mighty Trickerion Stone, which is fabled to grant supernatural power to its owner.

Using worker placement and simultaneous action selection mechanisms, the Illusionists and their teams of helpers — the Engineer, the Assistant, the Manager, and a handful of Apprentices – obtain blueprints and components for increasingly complex magic tricks, expand the team and set up performances by visiting the Downtown, Dark Alley, Market Row and Theater locations on the main game board depicting a late 19th century cityscape.

The tricks are stored and prepared on the Magician’s own Workshop game board, while the performances themselves take place at the Theater in the form of a tile placement mini-game with lots of player interaction. The performances yield Fame points and Coins to their owners based on the tricks they consist of. Fame points have multiple uses, but they also serve as a win condition – After turn 7, when the last Performance card is revealed, the game ends and the illusionist with the most Fame points wins.

The game offers 48 different Tricks to be learned from the Optical, Spiritual, Mechanical and Escape categories, over 90 character abilities, and 40 Special Assignment cards that influence the actions taken at the various game locations. The base game can be expanded with two optional rule modules to add further strategic depth to the game.

The "Dark Alley" expansion included in the base game adds a new location to the game. It also comes with 48 new Special Assignment cards, a new tier of Tricks, and 27 Prophecy tokens that can alter certain game rules turn by turn, giving the game additional variety.

Ages

14+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

60m – 180m
Designer

Viktor Peter, Richard Amann
Mechanics

Action Points, Action Queue, Catch the Leader, Turn Order: Stat-Based, Dice Rolling, Simultaneous Action Selection, Tile Placement, Worker Placement
Theme

Post-Napoleonic
Publisher

APE Games, Corax Games, Maldito Games, Mindclash Games
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