Welcome to the best hotel in Vienna! In High Season: Grand Hotel Roll & Write, you prepare rooms, accommodate guests, make personnel decisions, and court the favor of the emperor, all while managing your money and trying to avoid loans.
The game lasts seven rounds, and each player has a hotel board and staff board, with eight of each being available. At the start of a round, roll dice based on the number of players, then place them on the six spaces (numbered 1-6) on the action board. On a turn, draft one of the dice, then use the associated action according to its strength, which is based on the number of dice on that space when you remove it.
The actions allow you to:
- Prepare as many rooms for guests as the strength of the action, paying the cost for each.
- Occupy a prepared room by paying the cost minus the action's strength; gain the depicted one-time bonus when doing so.
- Advance on the emperor track equal to the action's strength; gain the listed bonuses as you reach them, with a point bonus for reaching the end of the track first.
- Earn krone, the game's currency, equal to the action's strength.
- Hire a staff member on your board, paying their cost minus the action's strength. Two staff members give you a permanent bonus, two grant a one-time effect, and two provide bonus points during scoring.
If you are the first player to occupy one of the eight rows or seven columns, you earn bonus points that are unavailable to anyone else who occupies this row or column later. When you occupy all the rooms in a contiguous color group on your board, you gain an immediate bonus of points (for a blue group), krone (red), or steps on the emperor's track (yellow).
The bonuses and effects of the staff differ on each board, so you need to figure out how to take advantage of the opportunities available through them in combination with your particular arrangement of hotel rooms and the dice available each round.
After seven rounds, players tally their points, possibly losing some in the process for ignoring the emperor, but ideally overcoming that loss thanks to occupied rooms, assorted bonuses, and staff-generated endgame points.
Curious about it? Check the included tutorial before playing or click below to discover more and start a game in no-time right on Board Game Arena:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=highseason
Let's thank Lookout Games and the game designers Virginio Gigli, Ryan Hendrickson and Simone Luciani for their authorization to bring this game to our platform, and let's celebrate the work done by MathCT for developing it for all of you to enjoy!
That's it for today.
See you for our WRT on Wednesday, and until then...
Take care and play fair!
VISOKA SEZONA: Grand Hotel Roll & Write
Dobrodošli u najbolji hotel u Beču! U High Season: Grand Hotel Roll & Write pripremate sobe, smještate goste, donosite kadrovske odluke i udvarate se naklonosti cara, a sve to dok upravljate svojim novcem i pokušavate izbjeći kredite.
Igra traje sedam rundi, a svaki igrač ima hotelsku ploču i ploču osoblja, od kojih je na raspolaganju po osam. Na početku runde bacite kockice na temelju broja igrača, a zatim ih stavite na šest polja (označenih brojevima 1-6) na akcijskoj ploči. Na potezu izvucite jednu od kockica, a zatim upotrijebite povezanu akciju u skladu s njezinom snagom, koja se temelji na broju kockica na tom mjestu kada ga uklonite.
Radnje vam omogućuju sljedeće:
- Pripremite onoliko soba za goste kolika je snaga akcije, plaćajući troškove za svaku.
- Zauzmite pripremljenu sobu plaćajući cijenu umanjenu za snagu akcije; ostvarite prikazani jednokratni bonus kada to učinite.
- Napredovanje na carskoj stazi jednako snazi akcije; osvojite navedene bonuse kako ih dostignete, uz bodovni bonus ako prvi stignete do kraja staze.
- Zaradite krune, valutu igre, jednaku snazi akcije.
- Unajmite člana osoblja na svojoj ploči, plaćajući njihov trošak minus snagu akcije. Dva člana osoblja daju vam stalni bonus, dva jednokratni učinak, a dva daju bonus bodove tijekom bodovanja.
Ako ste prvi igrač koji je zauzeo jedan od osam redaka ili sedam stupaca, zaradit ćete bonus bodove koji nisu dostupni nikome drugom tko kasnije zauzme ovaj red ili stupac. Kada zauzmete sve sobe u susjednoj grupi boja na vašoj ploči, dobivate trenutni bonus bodova (za plavu grupu), kruna (crvena) ili koraka na carevoj stazi (žuta).
Bonusi i učinci osoblja razlikuju se na svakoj ploči, tako da morate smisliti kako iskoristiti mogućnosti koje su vam dostupne u kombinaciji s vašim određenim rasporedom hotelskih soba i kockicama dostupnim u svakom krugu.
Nakon sedam rundi, igrači zbrajaju svoje bodove, možda izgube neke u procesu zbog ignoriranja cara, ali u idealnom slučaju prevladavaju taj gubitak zahvaljujući zauzetim sobama, raznim bonusima i bodovima za kraj igre koje generira osoblje.
Zanima vas? Provjerite uključeni vodič prije igranja ili kliknite ispod da otkrijete više i započnete igru u tren oka na Board Game Arena:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=highseason
Zahvalimo Lookout Games i dizajnerima igre Virginio Gigli, Ryan Hendrickson i Simone Luciani na njihovom autoriziranju da ovu igru prenesu na našu platformu i proslavimo rad koji je napravio MathCT za njen razvoj za sve vas da uživate!
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