Back of the Box: Players are rulers of rival kingdoms. Everyone wants to develop its power to the best of his ability and at the same time undermine and thwart the plans of the rival. Each player, during the game, will build five stacks of cards in front of his/her, one representing each facet of his/her reign: - Buildings - Army - Espionage - Commerce - Knowledge For each category there are three types of cards: - Score cards (points) - Attack cards (delete the score cards) - Defence cards (protect from the attack) Some Attack and Defence cards don’t belong to a specific category, but have instead show a jester(Mercenary). Those cards can be played on any of the five stacks, to the player’s will. The game ends when a player has a score card in the top of each category, or when a player's deck is empty. Each player sum all valid score cards and the extra points earned by combinations. Who have more points is the winner. (by automatic translator from Chinese) WZY 2010 Board Game Awards - Best 2-Player Game (China)