Watch “Between Two Castles Essential Edition: Learn How to Play,” a how-to-play guide for Between Two Castles: Essential Edition on BoardGameVideo.
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In this week's Games Made Easy video you will learn how to play Between Two Castles Essential Edition better, quickly and easily too.
It’s a competitive game with a very unique semi-cooperative mechanism that is a lot of fun.
The Essential Edition of the game seamlessly combines the original game and the Secrets & Soirées expansion to add even more variety.
It’s quite a unique game, blending collaborative building with competitive scoring. The tile drafting and castle growth make for a quick game that’s a lot of fun to play.
Tabletop games are really fun, but learning the complicated directions and rules can be a challenge. Peter and I explain the rules quickly and easily so you get to play faster while giving you all the tips you need to get better.
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0:00 – Introduction
0:44 – The Theme
1:07 – How to Win
1:18 – Pre-Setup
3:13 – Setup
3:51 – How to Play
8:51 – Turn 2
11:59 – Counting Points
12:53 – Tips to Win
13:37 – Conclusions
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Mainly reviews and how-to-play. Between Two Castles: Essential Edition is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 3 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, and 3 unboxings.
1 - 8 players
45 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Between Two Castles: Essential Edition, from BoardGameGeek:
Between Two Castles Essential Edition is a competitive drafting, tile-placement game for 1-8 players designed by Ben Rosset and Matthew O'Malley. It plays in about 45-60 minutes.
The Essential Edition combines the original game and the Secrets & Soirees expansion into one box.
The king demands a castle! You are a world-renowned master builder who has been asked by the king to help design his castles. Projects of such significance require the expertise of more than one person, so for each assignment you are paired with another master builder to execute your grandiose plans. Will your planning and partnership skills be enough to design the most impressive castles in the world?
Between Two Castles is a competitive tile-drafting game in which each tile is a room in a castle. You work together with the player on your left to design one castle, and with the player on your right on another castle. On each turn you select two tiles from your hand, reveal them, then work with your partners to place them.
At the end of the game, each castle is scored. Your personal final score is the lower of the scores of the two castles you helped design, and the player with the highest final score wins the game. To win, you have to share your attention between two castles.
-description from the publisher
Includes the following in the box:
Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Saxophone Room Promo Tile
Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Dice Tower Room Promo Tile
Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Bonus Card Promo Pack #1
Designers
Matthew O'Malley, Ben Rosset
Artists
Laura Bevon, Agnieszka Dabrowiecka, Bartłomiej Kordowski
