Bezier Games Castles of Mad King Ludwig - Secrets

Nice enhancement to an excellent game. This expansion adds a surrounding castle wall, potentially limiting the space you build in, and extra rooms, each marked with swans, of each of the room sizes. The new rooms are mixed into the existing room tile sets, at ratios determined by the number of players involved. Colored swan tokens, one or two selected at random, are placed onto the rooms as they are put up for sale. Whoever purchases the room gains the associated swan tokens and these tokens may be traded in to gain coins or kept until the end to score more points. Given that the point provided by the swans are based on how many sets of different colored swans you posses (the more colors the progressively more points), the swan tokens can easily determine winners or losers if people don't pay attention to the sets other players are gathering and simply use the tokens for extra coins. Overall, this varies the dynamics of the original game enough to provide a new approach towards how you play without drastically impacting the balance. Mostly, the best summary would be to say that it gives you more things to think about in an already interesting game.

Great expansion for the base game, adds extra stuff to have to consider each turn and fits in nicely with the rest. No complaints all round. Just be prepared that you dont get a box or anything with this, you just get the sheets of cardboard with the punchout pieces and the new instruction sheet. I love the game, so will buy it...lol. But could be a bit cheaper considering you dont physically get a whole heck of a lot for your money.

A must have addition to Castles! We don't play the original castles anymore unless we are introducing someone new who doesn't play board games. This expansion adds secret passageways, moats, and swans which improve the gameplay enormously in our opinion. Castles has always been a house favorite, now it's an indispensible house classic. Adds so much depth and another level of sophistication that makes it endlessly repeatable. Definitely get this!

Thank you. Quick shipping and such a fun addition to the game.

The base game is awesome. This expansion is great in that it adds a bunch of cool extra rooms. The mechanic of most of the additional game-play elements is a bit weak. I like moats, I'm indifferent to swans, and I love the concept of secret passages, but I've found them less useful in application.