Welcome to the Black Market!
about 3 years ago
– Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 08:09:36 AM
Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,
today we are revealing a key element of the expansion Black Market: the board for the Shady Deals!
This board, will allow you, during your turn, to buy a Wonder Card at a "special" cost of its value plus 1 Pound.
But it's not just that, if you decide to use it, you will allow each player to immediatly interact with the board in the same way, proceeding clockwise.
And not just that! The current player, before buying a card, can choose to change all the Wonder Cards on the board by paying 2 Pounds.
After each purchase, the vacancy is filled with a new Wonder Card from the deck.
Catch Me If You Can
Sensational! You have been skilled, real detectives! 🕵️ Our estimate was to get very close to Moriarty next Tuesday, to launch the final assault on Moriarty in the last couple of days of the campaign, but it looks we will catch him sooner than that!!
Sherlock Holmes' nemesis has been cornered, about 1200 Agents are now surrounding and scouring the entire neighborhood.
Now you just have to tighten the circle to bring him to justice:
Help us reach 400 subscribers on our YouTube Channel!
If you manage to complete this last task, "Sherlock - A Chamber in Red" expansion will be FREE for all those who will have participated to this fantastic Kickstarter Campaign!
That's all for today, the rooms in your favorite Chambers are still under construction.
Lucius is here!
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 07:11:15 AM
Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,
today's daily stretch goal is a new Contact, we are pleased to have Lucius on board.
This strange fellow holds many wonders in his warehouse... but almost all of them are fake, exactly like the Pounds he pays them with. His passion is betting, after all he does not lose real money.
Within the game, every time you interact with him he will give you 1d6 Pounds ... of chocolate.
Will you decide to try gamble with him or to ask for another Contact's help?
Arcana
Arcana are Wondrous items themselves, so we've chosen the most recognizable ones to give players a sense of familiarity.
You can see the Crystal Ball, the Pendulum, the Celtic runes and the Tarot cards... we know there are lots of fake around, but you know yours are the real ones, be careful with them!
The arcana have a very interesting power, they acquire value based on how much you differentiate your exposure.
They will also guarantee you 1 🌹Fame token if you manage to exhibit at least one Wonder of each type.
A Chamber in Red
We're getting closer!! Two steps done, great job.
Now we need to run fast!
Let's go get the next clue: Like this image on Instagram, we need to reach 100 Likes.
But it's not all, we can't waste precious time, Moriarty sent us a riddle, by solving this we will help Sherlock to move another step!
He said we need to find 3 words, those 3 words together are an incredible source of power...
The first word seems to be a wrong color hidden within an image of this update.
The second word is a misplaced object within the text.
To find the third word you have to find, within the image below, the Wonder Cards related to 4 questions, the corresponding letters (not the numbers) will form the last word:
First letter - Find the Wonder Card with the wrong name.
Second letter - Find the Wonder Card that owes his name to a videogame program.
Third letter - Find the Wonder Card that contains an object from a horror movie.
Fourth Letter - Find the Wonder Card that shows Captain Ahab's favorite item.
Write the three words in the comments below to solve the riddle, we need 25 correct answers to invoke the powerful spell and move one step to Moriarty's hiding place!
That's all for today, the rooms in your favorite Chambers are still under construction.
Today is the day!
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 01:27:09 AM
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
the day has come! We are revealing the last 2 add-ons for the campaign.
Let's start with the very sought-after Playmat.
This playmat (43x43cm) is slightly larger than the board provided in the basic box, and it adds a useful, but not essential, score board with 6 wooden tokens, to keep track of the Fame points during the game.
During this campaign, and in the following Pledge Manager phase, it will be sold at a price of € 16, while its recommended price in Store will be € 21.
Maybe some of you will be ready to ask "why does the playmat have 6 scoring tokens... when the game is up to 4 players?" :)
So here we are with the second and final add-on: "Fair of Wonders" - 5-6 Players expansion.
This expansion does NOT simply add extra materials to play with more people, but it adds 3 new game mechanics, required to play with 5-6 friends, but they can also be used in standard games with less players on the table!!
All these new mechanics have been studied as separate modules, so you will be free to choose which one you will want to add in each of your games.
The first module involves interactive cards, they allow you to carry out special actions, such as reopen an already filled Showcase to replace its content or expand it (for example a strategy could be to put a Precious in a Showcase to immediately earn £ 5 and then replace it with a Wonder of higher value), or it will simply guarantee you the option of adding missing books to a collection already placed in a Display Cabinet.
Other cards serve to embellish your Showcase, providing more Fame points, some other let you hinder your opponents by sabotaging their Display Cabinets.
The second module involves ships for foreign exhibitions! These ships are randomly drawn at the beginning of the game. Each ship board guarantee 3 additional Showcases for each player, with a special score calculated on the number of spaces filled regardless of the content. But each board assigns an additional bonus to a single space based on a specific content, so you will need to decide carefully how to use your ship!.
The last module involves freight wagons! These wagons have 3 Showcases each, they are placed between the players. Each player can interact with the wagon to his right and left, by filling them with Wonders as he sees fit.
Each wagon is shared between the two adjacent players and, at the end of the game, it will give Fame points to both, so you will need to decide carefully if it's the case to use those spaces and which one to use!
Last but not least, the expansion contains 6 meeples, to provide enough agents for each player. As we all love beautiful meeples, we decided to add 2 new characters to have more variety, we will include these new characters also within the core game box! Extra coin and banknotes token will be included as well.
During this campaign, and in the following Pledge Manager phase, it will be sold at a price of € 12, while its recommended price in Store will be € 15.
Dice... more dice!
Today's daily Stretch Goal will give you the last 2 dice, to let you play "Don't Gamble with Strangers" expansion up to 6 players, and effectively closes the first of the two exclusive Kickstarter expansions for this campaign.
A Chamber in Red
Sherlock is making progress to stop the evil Moriarty! We're half way through to acquire the next clue and move forward on the map. He just some little extra help from you, 134 Shares already achieved, keep sharing this Facebook post, we need to reach 200 Shares.
Few minutes ago an informer contacted Holmes, tomorrow he will reveal him how to find the next clue.... be prepared!
Good news for all Curators: "Solo Mode" stretch goal has been unlocked just few seconds ago, this post has been shared 202 times! Thank you for your help with this, next days we will reveal more about how it works.
Fans on BoardgameGeek.com reached 189, thank you for your support! Click here to become a fan and keep supporting Chamber of Wonders.
That's all for today, the rooms in your favorite Chambers are still under construction.
Er Pomata and "A Chamber in Red"
about 3 years ago
– Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:39:40 AM
Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,
Today's Stretch Goal is a special Contact which is inspired to a very peculiar character that we in Italy and, in particular in Rome, are particularly fond of: Er Pomata.
This Contact takes its name from a character in an Italian comedy dated 1976 ("Febbre da Cavallo"), where a fantastic Enrico Montesano plays the role of an inveterate horse bettor, who systematically ends up in money trouble together with his 2 friends Felice and Mandrake.
Within the game Er Pomata will let play of hazard to try take new Wonder Cards, you will declare a number and roll your dice, if you get more than the declared number you can take that number of Wonder Cards from the deck, if you get less you will have to settle for 1 Pound.
A Chamber in Red
That's the moment to reveal Chamber in Red, the new Expansion you are trying to get for free by helping Sherlock chasing Moriarty!
With this expansion you will be able to use 2 special meeples: Sherlock and Moriarty.
Moriarty assigns Wrongdoing Cards to the players, one at the start of the game and one each time an Agent activates an Area where Moriarty is.
These cards trigger different effects when revealed, one of them is a bomb that will blow up a Showcase with all its contents, forcing the owner to put on it the Coming Soon token.
Moriarty begins the game "stealing" 5 Wonder Cards from the top of the Wonder Cards deck, and he will keep stealing one Wonder Card each turn. To increase Moriarty's unpredictability, at the start of each player's turn he will move from where he is to the next Area, clockwise, occupying a different Area every time.
What happens if I place an Agent in an Area with Moriarty?
There will be 3 consequences: current player takes a Wrongdoing card, face down, and places it in one of his empty Showcase. Then he can choose whether to view the Wonder Cards deck
First of all, current player must take Wrongdoing card, face down, and places it in one of his empty Showcase. Then he can view Moriarty's Wonders deck and he can choose whether to take one of these cards to add to his hand, if he does he takes also a Tip token.
Tip tokens work in a very similar way to Grotesque tokens, at the end of the gam they will grant a Fame token (3 victory points) to the player who will own the most.
How do Wrongdoing Cards work?
Once placed in an empty Showcase, they are revealed when Wonder Cards are placed in that Showcase, and effects are immediately applied.
If there will be no empty Showcases available, the card is placed face down on a full Showcase, revealed and its effect applied immediately.
Sherlock Holmes, the great Detective, can be hired by the current player, for £3, before placing his Agent.
Once hired, Sherlock can be moved into any Area, making it safe by preventing the effects of Moriarty.
So it will prevent you from taking a Wrongdoing card, but at the same time it will not allow you to look at Moriarty's Wonder cards and to take any Tip token.
How do I defuse Wrongdoing cards?
The only way to do that is to choose Watson's Contact, he will allow you to look at 2 of the cards placed in your Showcases and he will allow you to choose whether to keep or discard them.
Considering that some Wrongdoing cards have no consequences, and considering that one grants 3 Fame points at the end of the game, Watson can be used also to bluff and deceive other players.
What do you think about A Chamber in Red Expansion? Is it worth to try get it for free? ;)
First task has been achieved, great job. We reached 150 fans on BoardgameGeek.com in less than 12 hours!
Sherlock moved forward on the map, now the expansion will be available for all backers (with pledge with reward) at a reduced price of €12, but we all know you can do better.
So here you have the second task: Share this Facebook post, we need to reach 200 Shares. Moriarty is feeling the pressure already!
Spanish Rulebook
Finally our Spanish speaking friends can access the Rulebook in their language! A genuine big thank you to Sergio Cano Cuevas (translator) and Sergio Martínez (proofreading - www.darkstone.es) for their precious contribution to this project. Just click on the image below to download it.
Social Stretch Goal
Don't forget about "Solo Mode", it needs just a little push to be unlocked, we are at 128 Shares, we need to reach 200. Click here to go and Share it!
For those who missed it, Facebook Contest to have your own Wonder included in the game is still running. Click here to have a look and participate, to try become proud part of Chamber of Wonders.
That's all for today, the rooms in your favorite Chambers are still under construction.
Catch me if you can!
about 3 years ago
– Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:00:51 PM
My dear Ladies & Gentlemen,
Today we are pleased to present you two wonderful objects: a splendid beige dice with a walking umbrella for Ladies of a certain lineage, and a red dice with a prestigious top hat, for very special occasions.
These two dice complete the set needed for the Don't Gamble with Strangers KS exclusive expansion. Two more to unlock and this first expansion will be complete.
Legendaries
One of the funniest things in creating these objects was the total freedom to move between history, film and fiction references, as well as take inspiration from comics or videogames.
After a brainstorming session with all the Studio, we had so many ideas that we could play 3 games just on these cards!!!
Among the many Wonders that you can admire above, you can see the Holy Grail and the Rosetta Stone, but also Excalibur , and a tribute to Hellraiser.
We could not miss two tributes from our beloved game, Sine Tempore, memories of a future past.
Mr. Holmes is here! Prepare yourself as he will need your help to catch the evil Professor Moriarty before the Kickstarter Campaing ends. As you know Sherlock is a grateful Gentleman, if you will support him, he will come to help you with your Chamber of Wonders... for free!
Don't worry, in case we fail our mission Sherlock will be available for you at a very advantageous price during the Pledge Manager, a price defined by how close Sherlock will be to catch Moriarty.
...but we are all confident we will succeed!
Our first task is to reach 100 fans on BoardgameGeek.com. Click here to help!
Come back tomorrow, we will unveil the full content of the expansion "Sherlock - A Chamber in Red".
Next Thursday we will present you the 2 remaining add-ons, we can anticipate you it will be 5/6 player expansion, which will introduce new game dynamics and player interactions, and a beautiful playmat option.
That's all for today, the rooms in your favorite Chambers are still under construction.
