Overview
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Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
???????????The Deception of Antiques:12 Chinese Zodiac Bronze Heads? "The Deception of Antiques:12 Chinese Zodiac Bronze Heads"is a novel based board game.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Role Playing
Make decisions or communicate from the perspective of an assigned character.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
Team-Based Game
Players compete in fixed teams and coordinate toward a shared team result.
Memory
Remember previously revealed information, positions, or sequences.
Variable Phase Order
The order of phases changes according to player choices or game state.
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???????????The Deception of Antiques:12 Chinese Zodiac Bronze Heads? "The Deception of Antiques:12 Chinese Zodiac Bronze Heads"is a novel based board game. It adapted from famous writer Ma Boyong's novel of the same name. In the game, players will play different characters in the novel,belonging to two opposing camps:The Appraisers and The Counterfeiters. The game will be divided into three rounds of treasure identification and a round of identification. The treasures identified in the game are 12 Chinese Zodiac Bronze Heads,and 4 are selected randomly at each round, of which 2 are genuine and 2 are fakes. Players rely on their own identity skills to identify each round of the head of the beast true and false, so as possible to find the true beast head, handed over to the state. After the identification of three rounds of treasure, if the Appraisers fail to achieve the target score of victory, a round of identification will be carried out. The Appraisers must make sure that the key players don't be found and find out who's behind The Counterfeiters . The Appraisers gain VPs by finding the genuine antiques and find the Counterfeiters while The Counterfeiters disturb them by using abilities. If the Appraisers gain enough VPs, they win. Otherwise, the Counterfeiters win. IMPORTANT:To play this game,you need to download an App !