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Bard Day's Night, A
You and your fellow tight-belted minstrels meet at the Hungry Troubadour Tavern. There is precious little coin to be found here, but there are vegetables galore to fill your empty... (read more)
Noble Knight GamesPlaytime
45 minutes
Published
2023
Age
14+
Publisher
Eagle-Gryphon Games
Players
2 to 4 players
Designer
Alf Seegert
Playstyle
Light
Purchase option
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Description
You and your fellow tight-belted minstrels meet at the Hungry Troubadour Tavern. There is precious little coin to be found here, but there are vegetables galore to fill your empty bellies if you sing for your supper.
A Bard Day’s Night is a 2-4 player card game of bidding, bluffing, and belting out verses. Players compose ballads by putting together verses made of 5 cards. The ballad cards can combine into over 2 million different hilarious sentences like “A One-Eyed Barn Cat Charms a Lonely Vampire Who is Cursing a Vindictive Warlock.”
In playing cards, they also receive a reward of onions, tomatoes, or cabbages tossed at them! Using that bounty of food, bards bid on the right to perform each part of the verse for the crowded house of tavern-goers. The winners collect those ballad cards, hoping to have the majority of certain symbols by the end of the game. When playing the game, the bottom of the box also serves as the tavern table, holding extra food cards for those who lose their bids.
Play continues until the tavern closes for the night, after which the bards are awarded coins for having the majority of each theme. The minstrel with the most coin in their pocket wins!
Components:
Tavern Table (box back)
24 Character Cards
72 Ballad Cards
4 Minstrel Screens
52 Food Cards
5 Ballad Column Cards
1 Tavern Closed Card
1 Scoreboard
6 Theme Tokens
1 Pipe Token
Rulebook
12 Card Expansion (A Tavern, Perchance?)
6 Double Theme Cards
2 Expansion Rules Cards
A Bard Day’s Night is a 2-4 player card game of bidding, bluffing, and belting out verses. Players compose ballads by putting together verses made of 5 cards. The ballad cards can combine into over 2 million different hilarious sentences like “A One-Eyed Barn Cat Charms a Lonely Vampire Who is Cursing a Vindictive Warlock.”
In playing cards, they also receive a reward of onions, tomatoes, or cabbages tossed at them! Using that bounty of food, bards bid on the right to perform each part of the verse for the crowded house of tavern-goers. The winners collect those ballad cards, hoping to have the majority of certain symbols by the end of the game. When playing the game, the bottom of the box also serves as the tavern table, holding extra food cards for those who lose their bids.
Play continues until the tavern closes for the night, after which the bards are awarded coins for having the majority of each theme. The minstrel with the most coin in their pocket wins!
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