Overview
At a glance
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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Each Anno Domini game consists of 340 cards, with a description of a historical event on one side of the card and the year (and sometimes specific date) in which it happened on the other. Anno Domini: Essen & Trinken contains historical events related to food, beverages, etc.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Each Anno Domini game consists of 340 cards, with a description of a historical event on one side of the card and the year (and sometimes specific date) in which it happened on the other. Anno Domini: Essen & Trinken contains historical events related to food, beverages, etc. Like all Anno Domini sets, this game can be played as a standalone or mixed with some or even all editions. In Anno Domini: Essen & Trinken, each player receives nine cards (or fewer, if you want the game to be shorter) and may look only at the descriptions. In turn, players place a card on the table, trying to place their card in chronological order to those already present. Instead of adding a card, a player may claim that the order in which the cards have been placed is incorrect. In this case all cards are turned over and the correct years revealed. If the order is correct, then the doubting player receives two cards and skips a turn. If the order is incorrect, then the previous player – who accepted the order as correct or made it incorrect through her own placement – receives three cards. The first player with no cards remaining in hand wins. Note that Anno Domini: Gesundheit & Ernährung was discontinued and split into Anno Domini: Gesundheit and Anno Domini: Essen & Trinken. About half of the events in each of these new editions were previously part of Anno Domini: Gesundheit & Ernährung and half of the events are new.