{"product_id":"darkness","title":"Darkness Game","description":"\u003cp\u003eMystics via for control of relics in ancient Europe in this unique card game. 2-5 Players | 20-30 Mins | Ages 8+ Features: Area Majority \/ Influence, Set Collection, Simultaneous Action Selection Description: Darkness is a strategy card game set in ancient Northern Europe where druids vie for control of powerful artifacts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a simultaneous action game where players play a progressing amount of colored cards in order to acquire unclaimed artifacts along with relics, in a complex, and fun game of prediction, observation, as well as thought. Game play: Takes place over the course of six rounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn each round player try to acquire cards that give them end game points, as well as special abilities. The objective of the game is to score the most points at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach round is separated into four phases. In the first phase, players place three of their colored cards from their hand in front of them, face down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen everybody reveals their cards. Next, everybody places two cards down in front of them, along with then reveals those.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen players play one final card face down as well as reveal that one, for a total of six revealed cards. Finally, there is a resolution phase where the players determine who has the largest amount of dominant, as well as sub-dominant colors for each of the available artifacts, and they are divided up accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayers have the same hand of 15 cards throughout the course of the game, thus limited luck. The 15 cards a comprised of five colors, featuring three cards of each color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce a card is played during a round, it is put back in a player's hand at the end of the round as well as can be played again. On each artifact card this is a dominant, along with sub-dominant color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card goes to the player that has played the most color cards that match the dominant color. In the case of a tie, the player with the largest number of color cards played that match the sub-dominant color gets the card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reason the game is complex along with fun is, there are many different dominant and sub colors on the board at the same time, and people have to predict what other people are going for based on set collection, along with the optimization of color specialization. The game ends after six rounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe person who wins is the person featuring the most number of points, which is determined by how much of a type a player has in each of their sets, and how many gem relics they have. Vendor: Quatermaster Direct\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"QUATERMASTER DIRECT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48015827370201,"sku":"GRM01000","price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8771\/4265\/files\/VR_860000354806_1_0ded0c45-6473-463b-8ede-079d00245127.jpg?v=1771995654","url":"https:\/\/www.supergamers.com.au\/products\/darkness","provider":"SuperGamers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}