Between Two Castles, Essential Edition, is a competitive drafting tile placement game for 1 to 8 players, designed by Ben Rosset and Matthew O'Malley. The game lasts about 45 to 60 minutes.
The Essential Edition combines the original game and the Secrets & Parties expansion in one box.
The king demands a castle! You are a world-renowned master builder, sought by the king to help him design his castles. Projects of such magnitude require the expertise of several people. For each mission, you are paired with another master builder to execute your grand plans. Will your planning and partnership skills be enough to design the most impressive castles in the world?
Between Two Castles is a competitive drafting game where each tile represents a room of a castle. You collaborate with the player to your left to design one castle, and with the player to your right for another castle. Each turn, you choose two tiles from your hand, reveal them, and then work with your partners to place them.
At the end of the game, each castle is counted. Your final personal score is the lowest of the scores of the two castles you helped design, and the player with the highest final score wins the game. To win, you must divide your attention between two castles.
Featured components:
194 unique tiles (most are 44x44 mm tiles)
88 other tiles
28 bonus cards (44x67mm)
8 game aid cards (70x110mm)
8 wooden castle tokens
76 cardboard tokens
32 cards related to Automa (solo mode)
1 double-sided colored notepad with 100 sheets
Custom 3-piece game board with lids
1 rulebook
