A beautiful city, with you as its ruler! You have big plans. Your city will be the most beautiful, largest and most magical city ever! But you are not the only one with ambitions. Intrigues are rampant and none of your opponents can really be trusted. That is why you call on characters such as the King, the Murderess or the Merchant. Each turn, one of the characters will work for you and perform special actions. But who chooses which characters? And how do you outsmart everyone? In Machiavelli you have to build buildings by paying for them with coins. The more expensive the building, the more points it will yield at the end of the game. To help you, you can choose from different characters at the beginning of a round. For example, the King always lets you choose a character first, the Murderess eliminates other characters and the Merchant ensures that you get extra money. After each round, the characters are redistributed, so that another player can become King, for example. Machiavelli has been a popular game for years thanks to the strong interaction between players. Whoever is clever in estimating who chooses which characters can manipulate the entire game. Although you only use eight characters per game, this edition contains no less than 27 different characters. So you can vary a lot! NB: This edition of Machiavelli is a renewed version of Machiavelli De luxe, with the same number of character cards and extras but without the 15 action cards with the circus theme. Game features • From 10 years • 2 to 8 players • Playing time approx. 30 minutes