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Title:
The Island of El Dorado
Description:
In The Island of El Dorado, each player is the leader of a civilization seeking to explore the island to control the four ancient shrines. You’ll discover resources, bodies of water, and the shrines themselves in a landscape which is different every single time you play. Build farmhouses and create villagers to gather resources and grow your economy. Occupy strategic locations on the map using forts to defend against the other explorers who seek to control the island before you do. Legend has it the most powerful shrine is hidden inside a cave, but be wary as you enter. The cave is the most dangerous part of the island.
Civilizations will rise and fall as each player explores, gathers, and fights to control the four shrines of El Dorado. The first player to control all four shrines wins the game. They will rule over the island forever and become richer than a king.
The Dice Tower:
On your turn you will roll two dice, you will pick one die to determine how many spaces you can move, and the other die will determine how many resources you gather. Moving is how you explore and reveal the tiles of the board, and when you gather resources you will gather them from areas you have built up or are present. With those resources you can then purchase more villagers, build forts to strengthen your villagers, build farms to gather more resources, or make offerings at temples to gain control of them. The strength of your villagers comes into play when you are moving across the board and another player is in your way. You can battle them, rolling dice and adding your strength to it to see who wins. This is also the way you can steal the final temple piece that is needed to win the game. In the end, whoever has made offerings at the three temples, and has control of temple piece wins the game.
The artwork for The Island of El Dorado was painted by artists in the 16th century when the game takes place. What better way to transport a gamer to another age than works of art from that time period?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has graciously allowed the use of these exceptional pieces through a new policy known as “Open Access”, implemented on February 7th, 2017. This policy allows images of artworks from the public domain to be widely and freely available for unrestricted use.
Some people have cursed hands and dislike dice in games. I’ve included a very simple rule option for more experienced gamers who wish to reduce the effect of luck in El Dorado. It barely changes the gameplay, and removes 50% of the luck in the game.
Reduced-Luck Optional Rule: Instead of players rolling two die to start their turn, just roll one. Choose between the top and bottom of that die to be your movement and resources for that turn. With this rule, players will always roll a sum of 7, but the split is what the dice determines. Nothing else in the game changes!
Components:
47 El Dorado Tiles (cardboard hex, 68mm across): 9x Water, 13 x Gold, 10x Food, 10x Wood, 2x Garden, 3x Shrine.
15 Cave Tiles: 1x Cave Shrine, 1x Cave Entrance, 1x Cave Exit, 3x Cave Dweller, 9x Empty Cave.
127 Resource Cards (57x87mm linen in card box): 25x Food, 25x Wood, 30x Gold.
5 Explorer Player Cards giving 10 unique Explorers (double-sided cardboard, 120x81mm): red (Hector the Corporal or Nicolas the Fortuitous), blue (Bellona the Commander or William the Merchant), brown (Laffite the Pirate or Stella the Adventurer), green (Emma the Cartographer or Tixoc the Gatherer), white (Pedro the Conquistador or Victoria the Wealthy).
3 Shrine Pieces (heavy painted resin, green with black wash and gold top): 50x50x28mm.
2 Golden Dice (acrylic six-sided, 15mm).
11 black Battle Dice (acrylic, six-sided, 15mm).
Wooden components (in each of the 5 Player colors; each Explorer figure is unique):
2x Explorers
4x or 5x (red) Villagers
2x Farmhouses
1x Fort
3x Offerings
Rulebook (English, 11 p.)
Civilizations will rise and fall as each player explores, gathers, and fights to control the four shrines of El Dorado. The first player to control all four shrines wins the game. They will rule over the island forever and become richer than a king.
The Dice Tower:
On your turn you will roll two dice, you will pick one die to determine how many spaces you can move, and the other die will determine how many resources you gather. Moving is how you explore and reveal the tiles of the board, and when you gather resources you will gather them from areas you have built up or are present. With those resources you can then purchase more villagers, build forts to strengthen your villagers, build farms to gather more resources, or make offerings at temples to gain control of them. The strength of your villagers comes into play when you are moving across the board and another player is in your way. You can battle them, rolling dice and adding your strength to it to see who wins. This is also the way you can steal the final temple piece that is needed to win the game. In the end, whoever has made offerings at the three temples, and has control of temple piece wins the game.
The artwork for The Island of El Dorado was painted by artists in the 16th century when the game takes place. What better way to transport a gamer to another age than works of art from that time period?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has graciously allowed the use of these exceptional pieces through a new policy known as “Open Access”, implemented on February 7th, 2017. This policy allows images of artworks from the public domain to be widely and freely available for unrestricted use.
Some people have cursed hands and dislike dice in games. I’ve included a very simple rule option for more experienced gamers who wish to reduce the effect of luck in El Dorado. It barely changes the gameplay, and removes 50% of the luck in the game.
Reduced-Luck Optional Rule: Instead of players rolling two die to start their turn, just roll one. Choose between the top and bottom of that die to be your movement and resources for that turn. With this rule, players will always roll a sum of 7, but the split is what the dice determines. Nothing else in the game changes!
Components:
47 El Dorado Tiles (cardboard hex, 68mm across): 9x Water, 13 x Gold, 10x Food, 10x Wood, 2x Garden, 3x Shrine.
15 Cave Tiles: 1x Cave Shrine, 1x Cave Entrance, 1x Cave Exit, 3x Cave Dweller, 9x Empty Cave.
127 Resource Cards (57x87mm linen in card box): 25x Food, 25x Wood, 30x Gold.
5 Explorer Player Cards giving 10 unique Explorers (double-sided cardboard, 120x81mm): red (Hector the Corporal or Nicolas the Fortuitous), blue (Bellona the Commander or William the Merchant), brown (Laffite the Pirate or Stella the Adventurer), green (Emma the Cartographer or Tixoc the Gatherer), white (Pedro the Conquistador or Victoria the Wealthy).
3 Shrine Pieces (heavy painted resin, green with black wash and gold top): 50x50x28mm.
2 Golden Dice (acrylic six-sided, 15mm).
11 black Battle Dice (acrylic, six-sided, 15mm).
Wooden components (in each of the 5 Player colors; each Explorer figure is unique):
2x Explorers
4x or 5x (red) Villagers
2x Farmhouses
1x Fort
3x Offerings
Rulebook (English, 11 p.)
Max Number of Players:
2-4
Barcode:
868949000402
Category:
Strategy
Exploration
Renaissance
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Publisher:
El Dorado Games
Playing Time:
20
Year Published:
2018
Designer:
Daniel Aronson
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Suggested Ages:
14+
Family:
The Island of El Dorado
Date Added:
2018-06-21 12:04:57
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$24.99
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-11-23
Date Added:
2018-06-21 12:04:57