Board game · 2013

Origin

Starting from the heart of Africa, players in Origin will determine the course of mankind's expansion on our planet, with the tribes gradually growing more diversified over time while still maintaining links to their ancestors…

Players: 2 to 4
Duration: 45 min
Age: 8 and up
Complexity: Family

Andrea Mainini · Matagot

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01 Intro 00:00 02 Présentation 00:13 03 Matériel et Mise en Place (Version Junior) 00:24 04 But du Jeu 02:42 05 Placement Initial 02:58 06 Déroulement 03:19 07 Actions d'un tour: 03:49 08 -Action "Evoluer" 04:08 09 Récompenses de Case Jaune, Orange et Violette (Cartes) 05:13 10 Traverser les Détroits 06:41 11 -Action "Migrer" 07:23 12 -Action "Prendre un Territoire Adverse" 08:27 13 Récompense Marron (Tuiles Innovations) 09:21 14 Territoire Central 10:04 15 Contrôler un Détroit 10:16 16 Contrôler un Territoire de Chasse (Cases Vertes) 11:06 17 Fin de Partie 11:50 18 Décompte Final 12:07 19 Version Complète (Modifications de Règles) 13:46 20 Mise en Place 13:58 21 Déroulement 15:54 22 Récompenses des cases Jaunes, Orange, Violette 16:42 23 Récompenses des cases Marron 17:38 24 Les Tuiles "Innovation" 17:57 25 Remplacement des Tuiles 19:32 26 Cartes Jaunes "Action" 19:51 27 Cartes Orange "Pouvoir Permanent" 21:14 28 Cartes Violette "Objectif Secret" 22:10 29 Continents 23:26 30 Fin de Partie 23:48 31 Décompte Final 25:48 32 Conclusion 26:55

In brief

The game tokens in Origin come in three colors, three heights, and three thicknesses, and at the start of the game one of the smallest, skinniest pieces is placed in the center of Africa. In addition, you place three technology tiles at random on the tan, orange and violet sections of the tech chart and six random tiles on the brown section; the tech tiles show 1-5 arrows. You also shuffle tan, orange and violet decks of cards and place them in the appropriate places. Tan cards provide an one-shot effect, orange cards give you a permanent power, and violet cards present you with an objective you must meet; if you do so, you can play the objective card on your turn, and immediately draw another. You can play at most one card of each color each turn.

On a turn, a player takes one of three actions:

Place a new piece on a region of the game board, with this piece sharing two of the three characteristics of a piece in a neighboring region; the new piece cannot be shorter than the original piece. Mark this piece with a token of your player color. Move one of your pieces on the board to an empty region, with short pieces moving only one space, medium height pieces moving up to two spaces, and tall pieces up to three. Take over a region controlled by an opponent by moving one of your pieces into this region and relocating the opponent's piece to the region your piece left. You can do this only if the attacking piece is thicker than the opponent's piece.

When you place a new piece on the board or move an existing piece, you're rewarded based on the color of the space you occupy. If you place in or move into a tan, orange or violet region, either you take a tile and the top card of this color or you draw three cards of this color and keep one of them. For a brown region, you either draw two tiles from the brown section of the tech board or draw one tile from anywhere. The technology tiles must be acquired from low to high – so you can't acquire a 4 unless you have a 3 – but you can have multiple tech stacks. You must meet a certain technology threshold in order to play the orange cards and acquire their special power.

In addition, you can score points during the game by occupying a grassland on a continent or the two regions on opposite sides of a waterway strait.

Players take turns until either all of the pieces are on the game board or all the tiles have been acquired or all the cards of one color have been drawn. Once this happens, players tally their points for objectives, grasslands, straits, tech tiles, and cards still in hand to see who wins!

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