Equinox

Description

--- "Equinox" is a cunning betting game where players strategically influence creature competitions to secure storybook spots amid eliminations. Key mechanics include: - *Power card placement* Players assign numbered cards to creatures, eliminating the lowest-valued one each round. - *Betting system* Players wager on creatures likely to survive and enter the storybook. - *Special creature powers* Unique abilities allow players to manipulate outcomes in their favor. - *Creature selection* Eight of fourteen creatures are chosen per game, enabling over three thousand combinations. - *Competitive elimination* Only four creatures ultimately succeed, requiring outwitting opponents. Equinox is a deeply satisfying, agency-driven betting game set in a forest where mysterious creatures vie to inscribe their tales in a legendary storybook, limited to four more entries. Players exert influence by placing numbered power cards before creatures each round, eliminating the lowest-valued contender, while simultaneously betting on survivors and leveraging the fourteen unique creatures' special powers—eight selected per game for over three thousand possible combinations—to sway results. As a revised edition of Reiner Knizia's Colossal Arena with two new creatures, it emphasizes tactical cunning in a competitive arena where not every story endures, available in two identical box cover variants celebrating the equinox. ---