The Dwarf King, that’s the one with the longest beard, has challenged humans and goblins to a tournament. Your goal: outscore your rivals across seven deals and claim the crown, even if your beard isn’t quite long enough yet.
You will find all the classic aspects of a trick-taking game, with a twist: every single deal plays by different rules.
What keeps things spicy is the deck itself. Alongside the 39 standard Court cards, one of 14 Special cards is shuffled in each deal. You never quite know which wildcard is lurking until the deal is under way.
Each deal, a special scoring rule called a Quest gets revealed and it completely reshapes what you're trying to do. The result is a game that rewards both planning and adaptability. You might be dealt a hand full of low-value cards and think you're done for, then realize the active Quest scores for exactly those values. Or you'll be sitting on a powerhouse hand only for the Quest to penalize every trick you win. The cards you're trying to collect — or avoid — shift every single round.
The Dwarf King brings you just enough tension and just enough swing to make every deal feel like a proper contest. The crown is up for grabs and we can help with thanks to the tutorial but… who's going to earn it?
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Our thanks to Bruno Faidutti, the game designer, and the good folks at Iello, the publisher, for letting us use their game on BGA. And to MathCT for doing us a good turn with this adaptation.
This was your Friday release.
No beard was shaved during the making of this article. Take care and play fair…
The Dwarf King：七次發牌，統御萬物
全天下鬍子最長的——矮人王，已經正式向人類與哥布林宣戰，邀請各路好手齊聚這場大賽！你的目標非常明確：在整整七局的對戰中，拿下超越所有對手的最高分數，並奪得至高無上的王冠——就算此時此刻你的鬍子還不夠長也無所謂。
你會發現所有經典的吃墩遊戲元素，但又有所不同：每一局遊戲都遵循不同的規則。
**真正讓遊戲充滿懸念的是牌組本身。 **除了39張標準宮廷牌之外，每局遊戲還會隨機抽出14張特殊牌中的一張進行洗牌。不到遊戲開始，你永遠無法預知哪張特殊牌會潛伏其中。
每一局遊戲都會揭示一條名為「任務」（Quest）的特殊計分規則，它會徹底改變你的遊戲策略。 **因此，這款遊戲既考驗策略規劃能力，也考驗玩家的隨機應變能力。 **你可能拿到一手低分牌，以為自己輸定了，但隨後卻發現，當前任務的計分規則恰恰針對這些低分牌。或者，你可能手握一手強力牌，卻因為任務規則而損失每一墩牌的分數。你需要收集或避免的牌，每一輪都會改變。
The Dwarf King帶來了恰到好處的緊張感與強大的逆轉張力，讓每一次發牌對決都像一場真正的殊死戰。王冠就在那裡等著勝者奪取，而我們也為各位準備好了教學。所以……究竟誰能憑實力加冕為王呢？
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=thedwarfking
感謝遊戲設計師 Bruno Faidutti 和發行商 Iello 的各位，允許我們在 BGA 上使用他們的遊戲。也要感謝 MathCT 為我們提供的出色改編。
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