Palace of Mad King Ludwig Board Game by Bezier Games - Strategy Tabletop Game for Adults & Families - Perfect for Game Nights & Parties

King Ludwig was mad all right, well maybe he was. He was declared insane, but they may be partially due to the fact that he liked to spend lots of money building extravagant palaces like Neuschwanstein, which is a place right out of a fairy tale. He was also known as the swan king, which ties into this game nicely because you use swans as part of the game scoring in this game.Like King Ludwig in real life, the King Ludwig of this game wants you to build a crazy palace, complete with panic rooms and bottomless pits. There are upstairs rooms and downstairs rooms, but you have to build them all before the moat goes all the way around the castle. We would all agree that building a castle after the moat has been completed isn't the best idea.I haven't played Castles of Mad King Ludwig, so I can't say a lot about that game, but I do like this game. It's a tile laying game that's fun because you're building a castle for a crazy person. It can get a little mean. You can certainly lay tiles in such a way that you make it impossible for another person to complete a certain room, and therefore missing out on the reward that room has to offer.This game takes a while to punch out and set up. There are so many little swans. It seems like there are swans of every color of the rainbow. There are also some mystery swans. There are so many tiny pieces to this game. Each player also gets a whole set of tiny pieces that goes with their player board to track what rooms they have built and to claim the rooms they've built in the castle. They're really tiny pieces.So keep in mind that you're not going to get this game in the mail and play it right away. First, you have to punch out a bunch of tiny swans, then you can play.