2018 · Territory Building
Forbidden City
Players are imperial advisors laying colored room tiles to expand and enclose chambers inside the palace. Each turn, a player reveals and places the top tile from their face-down pile, matching its color to adjacent tiles unless separated by a wall. When a room becomes fully surrounded (walls may include archways), its value is scored: each tile is worth 1 point, each dragon token adds 3 points, and any rooms reachable through archways also contribute to the total. Majority control in a closed room awards coins equal to the room’s value; second place receives half (rounded down). The game ends when tiles are exhausted, and the advisor with the most coins wins.
- Players
- 2–4 best 2
- Playing time
- 30 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- 1.8 / 5
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Full stats in Ludoya- 8
- Plays logged
- 15
- Players
- 23m 30s
- Average play
- 8
- In collections
5.8/10
from 3 Ludoya reviews
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