Machiavelli

Machiavelli

This is the Dutch-language edition. You have big plans. Your city will be the finest, largest and most magical city ever! But you are not the only one with ambitions. Intrigue is everywhere and none of your opponents can really be trusted. That is why you call on characters such as the King, the Assassin or the Merchant. Each turn one of the characters goes to work for you and carries out special actions. But who picks which characters? And how do you outsmart everyone?

In Machiavelli you have to put down buildings by paying for them with coins. The more expensive the building, the more points it will be worth at the end of the game. To help you, at the start of a round you get to choose from different characters. The King always lets you choose a character first, the Assassin knocks out other characters, and the Merchant makes sure you get extra money. After every round the characters are dealt out again, so another player can become King, for example.
Machiavelli has been a popular game for years thanks to the strong interaction between players.

If you can cleverly guess who is choosing which characters, you can manipulate the whole game. Although you only use eight characters per game, this edition contains no fewer than 27 different characters. So there is plenty of variety!