Holland is underestimated. The neighboring country is a prime holiday destination and extremely friendly, has great parks and other attractions and a large part of the country lies below sea level.

This in turn brings Holland is not in trouble, but is that the Dutchman the management of their country have largely organized by drainage of sea. The Ravensburger game shows Zealand by author Wolfgang Kramer us in a playful way how this could have gone vonstatten.

The players have to watch in the truest sense of the word "that they acquire land" by its mills "built near the water." Hexagonal mill plates are from a starting point from increasingly placed in the periphery, and surrounded with plantations tulips, cabbage and oilseed rape. Are in some areas it already farms, whose income (Stuiver) can be used for a special train once it adjacent to a mill . After a mill was embraced so completely, it comes to harvesting, which is all the greater, the more diversity can produce the mill.

The selection of Legeplättchen is regulated in the market, a roundabout, ausliegen in the mills and plants and boxes can be purchased through the advance of the guild master. Is paid in guilders by the merchants of the players move on to the instructions booklet outer circle in a guilder platelets as many fields as they need to move the guild Mister. The city's coffers, the players demanded the points of their rich yields, is skipped you.

The game has some variable components that can be left out or played the game. This offers the advantage of getting to know the game to play once a simple variant. Later it is possible, a few tactical finesse in the game install. This bailiff to ensure that the work is in the mills also done properly. If so, there is a bonus, if not, one must be Steuerentrichtet.

If a crop of particularly high, it can be marked as a record harvest. This can bring on the end of the game once additional victory points. Finally, there are two game plans, provide an on the hidden island of platelets for a minimal luck factor and another, played with on the fixed harvest fields and farms is to provide the tactical possibilities in the foreground.

Zealand, through its variants in a good family game, as each element is a more or less complex game comes. Nevertheless, it is in the game itself rather quiet, which means that there are not too many funds, the other players to get in their way. Only the short space available and thus less attractive expectant management fields generate genuine competition. Anyway it's back like a short vacation in the beautiful neighboring country. The game we are of course with then.

Year: 2010

Author: Wolfgang Kramer, Günter Burkhardt

Graphics: Franz Vohwinkel

Publisher: Ravensburger

Number of players: 2-4

Age group: 9 years

Total time: about 1 hours

Tags: Ravensburger