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New path cards: bridges, ladders providing short-cuts, doors, which blocks the opponent team and crystals for the geologists

New action cards: you can peak at the role of another player, change your role during a round, put someone in prison, steal gold...

Box of the new edition compared to the old edition

OK, who made the plans for these tunnels?

Saboteur 2 (expansion-only editions) (2011)

Players

2–12

Best: 5, 6, 7, 8

Playing time

45–45 min

Age

6.93

Average rating

5,931

Ratings

1.54/5

Weight

Alternate names:Aranyásók 2 +11 more

Designer:Fréderic Moyersoen

Artist:Fréderic Moyersoen, Andrea Boekhoff, Alexander Jung

Publisher:AMIGO +23 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy9.0

Luck3.0

Interaction10.0

Complexity3.1

Theme10.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

(Note: This listing covers only the expansion-only versions of Saboteur 2; for the Saboteur 2 listing that includes both the base game and the expansion, go to Saboteur Gold.)

In Saboteur, each player takes on the role of a gold-digging dwarf or a saboteur who wants to hinder exploration of the gold mines — but each player knows only his own role, so the digging may or may not go as planned!

Each turn, a player either lays down a tunnel card to dig from the start card toward one of the goal cards (or potentially away, if a saboteur) or plays an action card to help or hinder someone. If the diggers manage to find the gold hidden under one of the goal cards, then the diggers share the loot found there; if the gold can't be reached before the deck runs out, the saboteurs profit instead. After three rounds, the player with the most gold wins.

The Saboteur 2 expansion adds new role cards (the boss, profiteers, geologists) to the base game, new action cards (steal gold, change your role), and new tunnel cards featuring doors, ladders and bridges. What's more, the gold seekers can now be divided into teams — blue vs. green — and only those on the team that finds the gold score anything — assuming that anyone finds the gold at all, of course...