Emerald (2002)

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Designer	Rüdiger Dorn
Artist	Franz Vohwinkel
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Year Published	2002
# of Players	2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players (15 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	8 and up (4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (8 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Family Games (13 voters) [vote]
Category	Adventure Fantasy
Mechanic	Set Collection
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Family	Animals: Dragons
Primary Name	Emerald
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From the box:
"Brand new baby dragon! The news spreads like wildfire! And everyone knows what this means: the mother dragon must have acquired a large hoard of gold and gems for the nest of her brood. All knights in the area want a chance at the treasure and race to her mountain. To protect her young, the mother dragon is looking for those who would attack her baby and her new hoard. If she catches a knight, he will spend the rest of his life polishing gold and then finish by feeding the baby dragon. Those knights that can avoid the mother dragon will carry off their share of gold and gems!"

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2003 Games 100 Best Family Game.

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Emerald

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Abacus edition

Publisher: ABACUSSPIELE

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Year: 2002

Product Code: 4021

Size: 14.57 x 10.71 x 1.26 inches

1.76 pounds

English, French, German

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2	Rules Does taking a treasure end your turn?	2012-04-01	drasher25	0
2	Rules Need help getting started	2012-01-25	morrigambist	4
0	Rules Bribbing the dragon.....	2010-04-05	Friedrich	3
6	Sessions Fortune favours the brave	2009-07-19	Toasty	0
0	Rules 2-player end of game	2008-09-05	rrpeter	2
1	Sessions 3 player game	2008-06-17	FNH1	0
10	Reviews Baby Dragon, ahhhhh. Mother Dragon, AHHHHHHH!	2008-06-07	FNH1	3
0	Rules Looking for English rules for Emerald	2008-03-31	kendahlj	6
1	General Language dependent?	2008-02-04	SABATAI	4
0	General Looking for a game	2007-12-24	ginaleigh106	11

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English version of rulebook

Translation by Jay Tummelson

Lindsey

2010-08-10

Emerald_Short Guide_Game Summary

Emerald_Short Guide_v1 - Game summary for game explainers. This is basically an index sized cheat sheet to aid in teaching the game and refreshing your memory on subtle hard-to-remember rules. It also includes a components list for quick setup/cleanup. [b]*Go here for [geeklist=56867]more Short_Guides[/geeklist] of other games*[/b]

dshortdesign

2010-07-28

Emerald Tuckbox

This is a tuckbox with minimal graphics to hold all the cards for the game. I used the generator at http://tuckbox.gameupdates.com to create the template.

Verkisto

2008-09-08

Emerald Quick Reference

1-page quick reference in English, a la Liumas.

Ajax

2008-08-30

Emerald handleiding NL

Volledige full color handleiding voor het spel Emerald van ABACUS. De handleiding is een samenvoeging van andere bestaande NL handleidingen gemaakt door Maarten D. de Jong en Sven de Backer. De layout en teksten zijn geupdate door Laurens Smit VERSIE: 1.0 (8-5-2008)

dizzyl

2008-05-13

Reglamento en español

Traducción del reglamento de este sencillo juego al español.

Niyes

2008-05-08

Emerald Nederlandse spelregels

This is a Dutch translation of the original rules. All three languages present in the rulebook were used as a source, as they are not entirely consistent with eachother (although not in any meaningful way). This is version 1.0 of the document.

cymric

2005-09-18

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English review - Westüark Gamers	http://www.westpark-gamers.de/index.html?/Reviews/...	2012-05-19
German review - biblio.at	http://www.biblio.at/rezensionen/details.php3?anza...	2012-05-19
German review - bpk	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/luding/re...	2012-05-19
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German review - Topolino	http://members.chello.at/topolino/vindex.html?/top...	2012-05-19
German review - Spiele-Truhe	http://www.spiele-truhe.de/emerald.html	2012-05-19
German review - Startspieler	http://www.startspieler.de/rezens/eme.htm	2012-05-19
German review - FAIRspielt	http://www.fairspielt.de/Spiele/emerald.php	2012-05-19
German review - spieletest.at	http://www.spieletest.at/spiel.php?ID=721	2012-05-19
German review - Reich der Spiele	http://www.reich-der-spiele.de/kritiken/Emerald	2011-10-12