Les châteaux de sable de Bourgogne (FR)

*French version

Queen Crab is coming to Burgundy for a grand beach party, and every player wants the best-decorated village to welcome her! In The Sandcastles of Burgundy (FR), you roll two colour dice, then choose: dig through a sand castle hoping to uncover matching decorations, or use your cart to haul home the treasures you already found. Once you have gathered two decorations of the same colour, you can search for the hidden royal guild animal - but you will need to remember exactly where it is hiding before anyone else does! This memory game blends the luck of the dice with sharp observation and a bit of friendly competition, all wrapped in a colourful, charming beach setting. The round ends as soon as one player reaches Queen Crab's party, and whoever has collected the most points wins.

The Sandcastles of Burgundy is for you if you are looking for a first board game for kids to ease them into strategy, if your family enjoys games built around remembering where things are hidden, or if you want one box that grows with your kids: the rulebook includes a simple introductory version for ages 5 and up and a more advanced version for ages 7 and up.

This is no ordinary licensed spin-off: it was Stefan Feld himself, the designer behind the acclaimed strategy game The Castles of Burgundy from 2011, who wanted to bring his own game world to younger players. On BoardGameGeek, The Sandcastles of Burgundy is officially listed as the junior version of that original game, a fun way to introduce a future fan of management games to mechanics they may rediscover, years later, in the grown-up edition.

The game was designed by Stefan Feld together with his wife Susanne Feld, an elementary school teacher who used her firsthand knowledge of young children to simplify Stefan's first prototypes, which turned out to be too complex for five-year-olds. The couple fine-tuned the rules together, playtesting again and again at home until the game struck the right balance between being easy to grasp and fun to replay. Colourful illustrations by Sam Dawson bring this charming beach world to life.

BOX CONTENTS
6 sand castles
1 sand castle game board
4 villages
4 warehouses
4 carts
4 crests
8 colour dice
24 decorations
12 shops
1 Queen Crab figure
3 royal guild animals
1 sand bucket
6 wheeled scarabs
20 crowns
12 special ability cards
1 rulebook

Number of players: 2 to 4
Duration: 20 to 30 minutes
Age: 5+