
2015 · Post-Napoleonic
Trickerion: Legends of Illusion
Rival stage illusionists compete for fortune and fame in a late-19th-century, slightly supernatural cityscape. Players hire and deploy a team of Engineer, Assistant, Manager and Apprentices, acquire blueprints and components, and build increasingly complex tricks across Optical, Spiritual, Mechanical and Escape categories. Gameplay uses worker placement and simultaneous action selection to operate on a main city board and on each magician’s Workshop. Performances are staged at the Theater via a tile-placement mini-game that scores Fame and Coins; Fame is both currency and the win condition after the final Performance round. Numerous character abilities, Special Assignments and optional modules provide strategic variety.
- Players
- 2–4 best 3
- Playing time
- 60–180 min
- Age
- 14+
- Complexity
- 4.3 / 5
About the game
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Full stats in Ludoya- 278
- Plays logged
- 390
- Players
- 2h 47m
- Average play
- 90
- In collections
- 26
- On wishlists
- 2
- Pre-ordered
8.5/10
from 75 Ludoya reviews
Mestremuten9.0 Rating: 4/5 Production value: 4/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 1/1
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Great Worker Placement game with an unusual theme: illusionists. The game is tough and difficult to learn but gives a great experience when you manage it. Also the artwork, the components and the theme of the game, are excellent.
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setropo7.5 ECDE #5
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Rules questions
Answered from the rulebook by Ludoya's rules assistant.
Do I have to have the Components required by a Trick before I learn it in Downtown?
No — you do not have to meet a Trick’s Component requirements to learn it; you only need to meet (or pay the difference for) its Fame Threshold and pick a die/category (p.13).
Can I spend a Trickerion Shard to buy +1 Action Point for a Character placed in the Theater?
No — you may buy +1 Action Point with a Trickerion Shard when placing a Character at any Location except the Theater; the Theater explicitly forbids the ‘Enhance Character’ option (pp.12, 16).
If I place a Character and end the placement with unused Action Points, can I save them for later turns?
No — a placed Character’s Action Points must be spent immediately on one or more Actions at that Location and cannot be saved for later (p.12).
What's the difference between Order and Quick Order in the Market Row?
Order (1 AP) places a Component into the Order area so it arrives in the Buy area next turn during 'Orders Arrive', while Quick Order (2 AP) puts a Component into the Market Row stock this turn (available to buy by anyone) but it costs +1 Coin and is returned to the supply at end of turn (p.14).
If a Performance card has Trick Markers from several players, who gets the Yields?
Every player with at least one Trick Marker on the Performance receives the Yields (Fame, Coins, Shards) for their own Trick cards represented on that Performance card (p.17).
How do Thursday/Sunday yield modifiers work if I'm not present in the Theater when my Tricks are performed?
Yield modifiers apply to a player’s Tricks regardless of whether their Magician is present; Thursday subtracts 1 Fame/Coin and Sunday adds 1 Fame/Coin to each performed Trick (never below 0), and this applies even when your Tricks are part of another player's Performance (p.17).
Official score sheet
Trickerion: Legends of Illusion score sheet
Every scoring category, from the Ludoya kit. On your phone the totals add up by themselves.
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