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Rating:	5 Moderate
Popularity:	1
Difficulty:	Very easy
Year:	2005
Players:	1-4 players
Playing time:	20 minutes
Age:	8+

Created by: Richard D. Reece, Chris Lensch, Dean MacAdam

Published by: Gamewright

Description:

Castle Keep -The Game of Medieval Strategy and Siege.

Raise your castle! Raze the enemy! In this clever game of medieval maneuvers, build a castle with walls, towers, and a keep by matching color, shape, or both.

Will you use your game tiles to strengthen your fortress or to attack vulnerable opponents? Choose wisely, or you may find yourself in royal ruins! The first player to build a complete castle rules the land.

Transport yourself to a time when protecting your possessions meant defending your keep, the most secure part of the castle. Keeps were often called 'Great towers' because of their imposing structure - walls over 10 feet thick and 75 feet high.

They served various functions, from last resort strongholds during battle to sites of castle dungeons.

While there are few remaining keeps still standing today, you can get a small taste of what it was like to build and defend a castle in this game that is simple to learn, yet full of strategy and decision-making elements that will challenge all ages.

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Retail Price:	$70
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Castle Keep Game Rules

Components

36 Tower tiles
36 Wall tiles
18 Keep tiles

Tower and wall tiles come in three colors (red, yellow and blue) and three shapes (curvy, zigzag and straight). Keeps simply come in three colors.

Object of the Game

Be the first to construct a castle using tower, wall and keep tiles, or bring your opponents' castles to rubble. The first player to buiia 33x3 tile castle or entirely destroy an opponent's castle wins the game.

Setup

Thoroughly shuffle all of the tiles and deal four face down to each player. (Look at your tiles but keep them secret from opponents). Stack the rest in two face down draw piles in the center of the playing area. â€¦

Castle Keep Variant Rules

For Advanced Play

Once you master the basic rules, variants for a more challenging game:

You may destroy opponents' tower tiles in addition to walls. Like with destroying walls, the tower tile must match identically.
At the beginning of your turn, you may draw your first tile from the top of the discard pile. The second tile must still be drawn from one of the face down piles.
The last tower or wall tile placed into your castle must match on both sides, not just one. â€¦

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