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KING ME!

RAVENSBURGER: $25

AGE RANGE: 8+

PLAY TIME: 45 MIN.

PLAYERS: 2

avensburger’s King Me! is a larger, more complicated, fantasy-themed variant of checkers, changing a game of simple capture into one of capture, point-harvesting, and board control. The board itself is the first major change, with 196 squares (14×14) rather than the traditional 64. Divided into regions by color and design, the board offers a crazy quilt of desert, swamp, mountain, forest, river, and other landscapes. Scattered throughout these regions

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