Eggs and Empires First Impressions
Eggs and Empires, I can confirm, contains both the aforementioned Eggs and the titular Empires.
That’s a fact.
Eggs from the dragons of Ridback Mountain are valuable — not quite as valuable as gold following the last market fluctuation, but still TOTALLY worth the hassle, especially since it’s not like YOU are climbing the mountain and searching through dragon caves. That’s what peasants are for…
All the empires have sent their intrepid adventurers out to collect eggs, but not all will succeed! It gets crowded on Ridback Mountain, and there are only so many dragon eggs to go around — not to mention that the dragons have started mixing exploding eggs into their nests, and those hurt.
A very simple game. Everyone has a matching set of 10 Empire cards (numbered 1-10) which you shuffle and draw a hand of 3.
Then, you lay out a number of Eggs from a deck depending on the number of players.
Then each player picks one card from their hand, and then players simultaneously reveal then pick an Egg in descending order of rank on the card.
Some Eggs, as the blurb says, are exploding eggs that are worth minus points at the end of the game.
Of course, there’s more to it than that.
Each card you play has a role that has an ability. Well, MOST do, Rank 10 and Rank 1 do nothing special.
The roles let you skip taking Eggs, give you bonuses for taking or not taking Eggs etc
After each player has played 9 of their 10 Empire cards, the game ends and players add up the points from their eggs. The player with the most points wins.
Although, you can play multiple rounds if you want and see who has the highest score after then.
Eggs and Empires Summary
I’ve tried plenty of these kinds of games like Libertalia and others where you all play from an identical or similar set of cards with powers to collect/avoid stuff.
This just boils it down to a very simple formula that plays quickly.
I’m not selling it well am I? Go play it, it’s good!
Update September 2022
This was during peak “Small card game” season for me when I was buying all of them that sounded interesting.
I do like the simultaneously reveal mechanic though, they usually make for very fun, close games. Like Mission: Red Planet where cards aren’t revealed simultaneously but it’s a similar thing.
Jesta ThaRogue
