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Thanks to a prototype’s presence at the 1999 Gathering of Friends, there was a lot of early buzz about Citadels. I never even saw the prototype, but the Gathering crowd is a hard one to impress en masse. The level of praise Citadels generated put it front and center on my radar. Hans im Glück released the German edition under the more cumbersome title of Ohne Furcht und Adel, a pun of a German idiom which doesn’t survive the translation.Players race to play eight buildings in front of themselves. Each building carries a cost in gold which doubles as its point value at the end of the game. Each building belongs to one of five possible color groups, and any player with one of each color in his city earns a bonus at the end of the game. On each turn a player can draw two cards discarding one [note: the official rule in the 2nd edition allows a player to discard any card from his hand, not necessarily one of the two just drawn] or two gold, but not both, and can play only one building.

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