Description:
Van
Gogh, Rembrandt, Renoir --- paintings by the world's most famous
artists are on the auction block, for sale to the highest bidder. How
high will you bid before the tension and bluffing get to you? And how
good's your eye --- can you spot a forgery when you buy one?
The
MASTERPIECE game combines the excitement of a fast-paced board game
with the glamour and sophistication of a game that deals with fine art.
Some of the world's greatest paintings, illustrated in full-color
postcards, are an integral part of gameplay.
The
high-stakes world of international art --- and the power plays of an
auction --- will entertain and enlighten as you join a particularly
eccentric group of collectors who've all come in search of a
MASTERPIECE.
Each
player takes the role of an art collector and tries to amass the
greatest fortune in cash and the value of art pieces in their
collection.
The
painting cards are randomized and placed face down in a stack. Matching
size value cards are also mixed and placed face down in a stack. These
value cards indicate the worth of the painting ranging from forgery
(zero) to $1,000,000. Each player receives an equal sum of money and one
painting with value card which are clipped together so that all players
can see the painting and only the owning player can see the value. When
paintings are drawn from the stack, a value card is clipped to them in
this fashion. Players move around the board by die roll and land on
spaces that allow the player to collect money from the bank, receive a
painting from the stack, sell a painting to the bank for its value, sell
a painting to the bank for a specified amount, auction one of their
paintings to the highest bidding opponent, or auction the top painting
in the stack to the highest bidder.
The
game ends when the painting stack is exhausted. Players add the values
of their paintings to their cash on hand. The player with the largest
total wins.
3–6 Players
60 Min Playing Time
Age: 10+