Meanders

Publisher: Perte et Fracas

Version french

In the realm of nightmares, it's a free-for-all!

The Lords of Terror wage a merciless war to invade the Dreams of the sleeping children and win the Crown of the Night. Every night, they go from dream to dream to place their minions there, and as their influence grows, they enlist the help of the Legendaries, the undisputed terrors of the Land of Meanders...

How to play?

On your turn, play a Dance (movement sequence) proposed by one of the 4 Dream Cards in play in the River. Position yourself strategically to place as many Tokens as possible on the adjacent tiles of your favorite Dreams (3 different types/color + 1 neutral). When you finish on a Dream of Offspring, increase your Scare score, and as soon as your gauge reaches a milestone, recruit a Legendary, a creature from nightmares with fearsome abilities to turn the game around and upset the established order. Bonus: If your Dance takes you over an opposing Lord, place an Offspring on their tile for free.

Places are expensive, only 3 Spawns per Dream tile, all Lords combined. After completing your Dance, decorate the board with a new Dream tile on the periphery... or on top of another if it has dotted lines around the edge.

Endgame

The game ends when all the Dream tile piles are empty, making sure everyone has played the same number of times. The score is then counted with rules of "present on" and not majority. The higher a stack of tiles, the more it earns.

And earn bonus points if the last tile is on its gray side (Forgotten Dream), if you have a trio of Spawns, or if one of your Spawns has no other Spawns on adjacent tiles. Add your Scare score (to the non-linear value) and the Lord with the highest total points ascends to the Throne of Meanders.