We are pleased to announce that Tournay, a game from Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges and Alain Orban (Pearl Games) is now available on Board Game Arena.Does these names ring a bell to you? Yes: this is the same team that designed the excellent Troyes - which you can already play on BGA. This is why we're so happy to let your discover this new pearl from Pearl Games published in 2011. Tournay is a very good card game, so if you like cards combinations you'll like it a lot!
Basic game rules are quite easy: each players have some white/yellow/red meeples ("workers") which represent his available actions, and some money ("deniers").
You can use workers to draw cards from one of the 9 available deck, and add it to your hand. At the beginning of each turn, you can pay the cost (in deniers) of a card to play it from your hand to your "district". Your district is a grid of 3x3 cards, and you must pay attention where to place each card because some cards effects are triggered when something is happening in the same column/line. Finally, you can active some cards effects by placing a worker on them.
When you have no more workers, you can choose not to do any action and get back all your workers - of course you must do it at the right moment
There is also a possibility to use some of your opponents' workers by paying them.So, during the game, you will fight with your opponents to draw the best cards according to your strategy, and then build an efficient 3x3 grid of cards. An "efficient grid" is a district that can give you plenty of money, plenty of cards, and plenty of dangerous effects to slow down your opponents.
And what about points? You will get most of your points from level III "prestige" buildings. Each prestige buildings in play introduce a new way to score points for you... and your opponents. As a consequence, you need to choose prestige buildings that will bring you the most points... and try to get points from your opponents' prestige buildings at the same time.
Tournay is an excellent card games will a lot of available strategies. This is also an excellent game for 2 players - and we know you love this type of configuration on BGA
This adaptation of Tournay for Board Game Arena has been realized by Pierre Scelles (pikiou). This is the fourth (!) realization from Pierre: congratulations and thank you for this wonderful adaptation!
Finally, we would like to send a very special Thank you to the whole team of Pearl Games, for the quality of their games and for their kindness. We wish them plenty of success for their latest games Bruxelles 1893 !
Can anyone explain me how prestigious cards work 
