Las Ligas de la Ñ: Los Juegos de la X társasjáték

Angol leírás

King Alfonso X the Wise has organised an exceptional cultural contest - the Games of the X, similar to the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece in Olympia and the twelve challenges of Caesar in the great Colosseum. Which contestant will get the most medals to obtain the magnificent X of eternal wisdom?

During his life, Alfonso X has sponsored and translated works of different disciplines in his court, such as law and politics (Fuero Real de Castilla, Espéculo, Setenario and Siete Partidas), history (Estoria de España and General estoria), art and music (Cantigas de Santa María and Cantigas de escarnio y maldezir), games (Libro de los juegos, that includes chess & variants, alquerque, dice and tables games, nine men’s morris or the mil game…), science and magic (such as Tablas alfonsíes and Libro complido en los judizios de las estrellas, both about astronomy and astrology; Lapidario, about natural properties of the stones; and Picatrix, about hellenistic magic), and sapiential literature (Sendebar or Libro de los engaños, Calila e Dimna, Liber Scale Machometi and Bocados de oro).

Las Ligas de la Ñ: Los Juegos de la X (The Ñ Leagues: The X Games) is a board game played by 2 to 8 players that contains 15 playable characters of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Alfonso X, Wallada, Ramon Llull, Christine de Pizan, Maimónides, Urganda the Unknown…).

In this new Ñ game (seventh in the series), the players play as one of the characters to obtain X number of medals (5 for a short game, 7 for a semi-fast one and 10 for a long game). During the game, the players move on the board to reach special squares (sacred relics and category squares) to obtain medals in different ways, either on minigames played after each round or by using the characters' or relics' special powers. In every round, the players take turns to do their actions (one of the following three: 1. Moving, 2. Using a character’s power or 3. Using a relics’ power).

Each category (discipline) has its minigames (Art, Medieval sciences, Fantasy, Games and Politics). For example, the discipline “games” contains, among others, chess and its variants, nine men’s morris, dice games, table games and card games.

Each character has unique powers and a range of movement (following a line or diagonally). The Ñ is a neutral character which can be used by every player to win its favour or to put it against the opponents.

Even though the game is played on a 64-squared board (like chess), the players move on the intersections (like in go), making it an 81-squared board. Every player starts at the letter X in the middle of the board and can move according to the characters’ pace to every square.