Leonardo da Vinci — How to Play 🎲 and Is It a Gem? 💎
In Leonardo da Vinci, players secretly commit their laboratories toward researching inventions. To invent (and earn money/points), players will need components, workers, maybe an upgraded lab, and these are acquired via a "worker placement" sort of mechanism. But not really! LdV is an early (as in, pre-Agricola) WP game that doesn't follow standard conventions. Multiple players can place multiple workers on the same space, and the strength of the workers determines the order actions are taken and their cost. This turns the game into a sort of gradual, multi-faceted auction game.
Leonardo da Vinci was designed by the Italian collective Acchittocca and first published in 2006. The design was recently updated by Changhyun Baek as "Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester" and published by his company DiceTree in 2023. I talk a bit about the changes at the end of the video.
00:00 Intro
02:59 How to Play — Setup
10:57 How to Play — Goals & Broad Concepts
12:03 How to Play — Directing Your Laboratories
13:50 How to Play — Assigning Your Workers
16:33 How to Play — Resolving Your Workers
24:44 How to Play — Completing Inventions
28:16 How to Play — End of Round & End of Game
30:06 Is It a Gem?
41:07 Brief Comparison with Codex Leicester
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