#SOLITAIRE TILL DAWN WITH A DECK OF 51 UPGRADE#
#SOLITAIRE TILL DAWN WITH A DECK OF 51 PLUS#

#SOLITAIRE TILL DAWN WITH A DECK OF 51 UPGRADE#

– Maiden’s Quest can be thinky! There is a lot of room for abusing effects, and when one masters timings, Foresight, Distraction and cellaring, as well as which cards to upgrade or downgrade, one feels empowered and in control of what may at first seem like a very random game. – Maiden’s Quest is portable! Card size and the icon disposition make the game easy to play in the palm of one’s hand without spreading outward. – Maiden’s Quest is replayable! With several different cards of each type, some really changing the strategy - Captors, for the most part, but Maidens and Items too, especially those granting card manipulation - there are a many plays out of the box. III – Weighing Maiden’s Quest‘s pros and cons If the player successfully challenges their Captor, they win the game. If the player successfully challenges an Exit card, they flee and win the game. If the player should suffer a hit but have no heart left in their deck, they are defeated. A Maiden will have discovered a great many new talents by the end of the game, and lost some along the way too. The player continues doing so until they reach the Rest card, which is advanced to its next state - from 1 to 2A to 2B to 3A… to 4 - at which point the deck is shuffled and another level begins, escalating the game’s difficulty. When a card is upgraded, it is rotated or flipped to a higher side. When a card is hit or downgraded, it is rotated 180° degrees or flipped to a lesser side - from gold to blue to bright red to deep red, black or grey. If they run, they must fan the next 5 cards and downgrade one of them, then cellar them along with the obstacle. These are usually hits and/or downgrades.

#SOLITAIRE TILL DAWN WITH A DECK OF 51 PLUS#

If there are enough icons of the matching type in the fun, the player must apply the consequences depicted on the lower part of the obstacle card, plus those of the left side of any other obstacle card - then called Adds - remaining in their fan. If they match, the obstacle is defeated and flipped it on its back side, granting the player the rewards depicted in the middle of the card - usually, upgrading a card to have better or more icons. If they want to challenge it, they must fan the next 5 cards, showing their upper right icons, and see whether they match those of the obstacles, both in types and quantity. They then must decide whether they want to challenge the obstacle, or run away from it. The player discards cards to the bottom of the deck - something the game calls cellaring - until they encounter an obstacle of value equal to or lower than their current level, indicated by the Rest card. They then thoroughly shuffle the deck, place the Rest cards at the bottom with number 1-Halt! showing up, and are ready to start playing. To play a game of Maiden’s Quest, the player should choose a Maiden and a Captor, then follow the set-up instructions on the back of their respective cards to determine how many items, dresses, health, savior, treasure and obstacle cards they will need to include in the deck. So pick your favorite dress and sharpen those crystal high heels, today, you’re getting out. You’re not going to be stopped or held by skeletons, zombies, vampires, or rival royalties. ‘Tis time you took the matter - and your freedom - into your own (perfectly manicured) hands.

No way you’ll be waiting for a muscular specimen of the male genus to rescue you. This review was written after 30 plays, all solo. The player will attempt to gather the right icon types in order to defeat a succession of obstacles of increasing difficulty as they cycle through their deck, until they either run out of health, or fulfill one of the win conditions: escaping through an exit, or defeating their captor. The player takes the role of an abducted maiden trying to escape or defeat her captor. Maiden’s Quest is a mainly solitaire game that can be played in the palm of one hand, and stopped and resumed to be played on the go, in a waiting line, etc. Mechanisms: push your luck, hand managementĬard size: 51X89mm (Swan Panasia is the only brand that seems to manufacture these sleeves for the time being) Set-up and teardown time: Relatively fast, 10 minutes to prepare a new deck, 2 to play it again. Illustrations: Lindsay Archer, Brigette Indelicato I – Introduction Small box, big adventures.

Solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51