Djambi
Djambi, also called Machiavelli's Chessboard, is a negotiation game for 4 players in which each player leads a political party whose Chief is set on eliminating all other parties by any means necessary to gain and keep absolute power.
Number of players: 4
Game duration: 19 mn
Complexity: 4 / 5
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Rules summary
Rules
The rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djambi) leave space for interpretation on some fine points of the game. Choices made for the BGA implementation are the following:
- - you can kill your own pieces, except the leader (sometimes sacrifice is necessary);
- - the Reporter has the choice not to kill (the Press is not above making some arrangements with political parties);
- - a Chief is eliminated if fully entrapped by corpses with no Necromobile left in play;
- - the master move of the Diplomat is available (removing a Chief from the Maze, then replacing them by another Chief when leaving the Maze);
- - the master move of the Assassin is available (killing a Chief in power, then killing another Chief when leaving the Maze and setting up their corpse in the Maze as a puppet regime!)
- - when only two players are left, if chief A enters the maze, the next turn will be for player B, before player A gets two consecutive turns.
Credits
Illustrations for the "Whimsy" theme (see game preferences) have been created by Reno (http://reno-pixellu.com/blog/), Boulet (http://www.bouletcorp.com) and Lucie Albon (http://www.luciealbon.net/).