Zaunkönig Board Game | BoardGames.com | Your source for everything to do with Board Games

Description

In Zaunkönig, players start the game by seeding each space on the beech game board with one or two of the 130 rings made from German cherry wood.

On a turn, a player places a number of rings on the board as determined by the die roll, with the player deciding where to place them; if a player creates a tower of four rings, that tower is dismantled, with one piece going in each of the adjacent orthogonal spaces. (If a ring would fall off the edge of the board, the ring is placed on the opposite side of the tower.) If another four-piece tower is thereby created, that tower is dissolved as well. For each four-piece tower a player creates, he receives a ring from the supply.

At the end of a player's turn, he places one of his colored marbles on a tower. If a ring would be placed on this tower, the marble's owner collects it instead. The game ends when the ring supply runs out, and the player with the most rings wins.