Castle (card game)

Castle

Designers	Bruno Faidutti Serge Laget Emmanuel Roudier (Artist)
Publishers	Descartes Editeur Eurogames Jeux Descartes
Players	2–5
Setup time	5 minutes
Playing time	30 minutes
Chance	Medium
Skills	Strategic thought

Castle (sometimes known as Palace, not to be confused with Palace aka Shithead) is a card game designed by Bruno Faidutti, Francesca Flores, ^[1] and Serge Laget. Art by Emmanuel Roudier. ^[2] Played with 2-5 players. It is a shedding card game, i.e. the winning player is the one who disposes of all of their cards first.

Game play

Players are given a set of square cards which are to be played onto the table, which has a cardboard castle battlement layout.

Cards are played into one of four regions:

• in the courtyard,
• on the battlements,
• on the towers, or
• outside the castle.

When played, the cards will usually allow the player to take some sort of special action, which is unique to the card. ^[3]

End Game

The first player to rid himself of all his cards wins. ^[4]

Awards

Castle won the 2000 Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société. ^[5]

References

1. ^{[ citation needed ]}
2. Emmanuel Roudier on BoardGameGeek
3. Castle at BoardGameGeek
4. "789bet". Collection: Chinese gaming counters - Archives at Yale. Archived from the original on 2019-04-23. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
5. Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société Winners on BoardGameGeek

External links

• Castle on Bruno Faidutti's website.
• Castle at BoardGameGeek