Some games require all kinds of adroit thought, slick wits, and a holy reverence for strategy. Other games are best played when all players love to carry on, prone to gambling, and given to fits of noise and well-displayed anguish. Diamant (German for "diamond" I assume) is the latter.
All players represent Indiana Jones-type explorers. Their aim is simple: to win the game with the most jewels (represented by diamonds and rubies). The game is played in 5 rounds, with each round proceeding as follows:
1. Each person places their Indiana Jones Meeple on the table. The first player flips a card from the stack of cards. It is either a hazard (poisonous gas--popular in our house, rockslides, explosions, scorpions, snakes, etc.) or a treasure card. If it is a treasure card, all players divide up the number of gems (if the card indicates a 10, and 3 people are playing, each player receives 3 gems), with the remainder staying on the card.
2. Each player then takes their Indy into their hand and then, on the count of 3, all players open either an empty hand (indicating that they are going to head back to camp with their treasure intact) or a hand with their Indy in it (indicating they are daring enough to keep exploring deeper into the cave).
3. A new card is flipped. Again, it is either treasure or hazard. If it is a hazard that matches a previously flipped hazard, all explorers in the cave are terrified, they turn and run, leaving all of their treasure in the cave, and the round is over. If it is treasure, however, the explorers still in the cave divide the number of gems indicated on the card, and they again decide to turn back or explore deeper yet. If they decide to turn back, they pick up any extra gems left behind on the previous cards.
4. Each game consists of 5 rounds. A round ends when either a second hazard is encountered, or all explorers turn Nancy and run, leaving the cave for the safety of Kum-bay-ya and smores.
5. All cards are then picked up, shuffled, and a new round of exploration begins.
I have played this game 3 times. I love to egg players on to be more daring, I love to stay in the cae and find huge amounts of jewels (as other players leave, explorers still in the cave get larger and larger shares of treasure). After 3 games, I ended with a grand total of...no treasure. I went home broke, alone and forsaken by the good men who funded this expedition of mine. I was too tempted by the prospect of great riches and deeper fortunes. Belinda, however, surprised me more than once by taking the safe route and turning back early. I guess she does not like asps or poison gas. The first "push-your-luck" game I have ever played, I absolutely loved it, every minute of Diamant.
Now if I could only learn to "...choose....wisely".
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i love indiana jones. esp. the last crusade... if only elsa hadn't crossed the seal.
i used to watch these with my dad, eating spaghettio's and nutty bars
i am ticked. i asked for "belinda". i wanted to be BELINDA CARLISLE not in a mere mention...but for a long, drawn out post!
i would also like to mention that the writer of "the meeple beat" tried to railroad belinda, turned her only friend against her, & forced belinda to lose by a large margin in "BOHNANAZA". the writer almost forced such frustration from belinda's soul as to invoke swear words of a mild sort. poor belinda.
and also...belinda! pull yourself together! you're a woman! don't waste foul language on a board game! dodo.
I have eaten more Spaghettio's as an adult than I ever did as a kid. On the jobsite, I often ate them right out of the can. As long as they don't have meatballs in them, they are pretty fine cold.
Georgia, if you want to complain about your fake names, then I will expose your true identity to the entire world. Geez, you'd think that a person in witness protection would be happy with the name given them....
it's nancy mckeon. it's me, alright.
THREE games... and NO loot!
I'm not sure if I'm proud of the size of your gumption or ashamed of the simple fact that you have absolutely nothing to show for it.
I hereby dub you; Indiana Poned
As for Belinda, It's your mouth, you can do what you want, but I can't think of any more appropriate setting for foul language.
"gumption"...is that what you're calling it, jeff? censored for the kiddos.
haha! foul language. the other day i went to write "foul language" and wrote "fowl". now that phrase makes me laugh.
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