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All the cards come equipped with various interesting
qualities. Special cards in the Queen's Necklace add an element of fun
to the game. Confessors allow a peek at opponents’ cards. Thieves allow
players the theft of a card from an opponent. Forgers force a specified
player to discard a gem card mentioned by another player. Thieves and
forgers however do not get away with bad deeds. Musketeers can stop
them.
Favorite cards can have an effect on the Queen. It
can make her choose one type of gemstone over another. The Queen’s
change of heart will affect the gem’s popularity and so its price will
reduce. The most special card is of course the Queen's Necklace card.
The owner of this card should wear the necklace included in the game
box. The Queens necklace can be played with a jewel during a sale and be
used to cancel a King card.
During game play when a Merchant card is revealed, the game stops. An
immediate sale is made. A sale means that each player chooses in secret,
cards from his or her hand. These are the cards that they are to offer
to the queen. All players’ cards are revealed at the same time. Each
card represents a piece of jewelry with gemstones. The card’s price is
determined by the fashion marker for that gem and by its rarity.
The King doesn’t like all these jewelry related activities. His arrival
on the scene spoils the fun. This is where the Queen's Necklace comes in
useful. This powerful card can prevent the King from taking any action.
The sales allow players to have some fun bluffing and thinking up ways
and means to win each sale. All the players try to win sales by playing
the fewest gems possible, to keep their rarity value up.
After the sale is over, all cards that were displayed to the Queen are
discarded. Play is restarted with the face up cards being replenished.
After the third sale, the game ends. Purchasing a Queen's Necklace board
game entitles players to play the game online free of cost for a year.
Review of Queen's Necklace
Big and brightly illustrated cards, a cute necklace, petite gold rings…
Queen's Necklace is a game to cherish for its very looks. The actual
game play is also very appealing. Queen's Necklace is a quick game and
this factor really adds to its popularity.
Players need to have good memory skills to remember things like gems
picked up by opponents and contents of a confessor card. The golden rings
provided with the game look nice and cute but are a bit bothersome to
handle. After every turn, players need to adjust the rings down on the
leftover cards, and reset the rings on new cards if any. Despite these
little bothers Queen's Necklace is a highly amusing and engrossing game
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