Candle Quest

Description

The Menorah Game is a quick set-collection, auction, money-management game in which you buy/sell/auction candle tiles in order to be the first to collect the entire set of candles necessary to light your menorah.

On your turn, you a) flip over a card or buy a card from a discard pile, then b) buy, sell, or auction the card. The auction starts with you and goes once around but does not come back to you. If you win the auction, you pay the bank; if another player wins, she pays you and takes the candle. In addition to candles, the deck includes hazards that you must pay off, but which can be used to pay off other hazards or buy cards from a discard pile. The hazards in the 2005 self-published edition were Greek soldiers, while they are unlit candles in the 2013 edition, a.k.a. Candle Quest. The deck also includes gold (dancing) candles that are wild, and can be used for any color.

In the basic game, the first player to collect all eight differently colored candles wins. In the advanced game, the player whose board is the best at game's end wins. Candle Quest includes rules for a children's game that removes auctions and discard pile purchases and changes hazards so that they can be used to steal a candle from another player.

Candle Quest is essentially a re-theme of It's Alive! with a new production company and artist, while It's Alive! was a version of The Menorah Game with more tiles, slightly different rules, and components for up to five players.

Reimplemented by (and reimplements)

• It's Alive!