To win the game, you have to break the rules.

Our restoration moves the game to Renaissance Italy, another setting where power plays were fierce. Players take turns choosing to abide by the edict or attempt to sin—break the rule and take all the forbidden cards. To help them, sinners can use the Indulgence, a ring that lets them turn any card into a 10. Or, if they really want to up the ante, they can play their papal bull, which puts a whole set of edicts into play.

Components:

• 36 Family Cards (Nine cards in each of the four families)
• 20 double-sided Edict Cards
• 4 Papal Bull cards
• 4 Strongbox cards
• Edict deck cover card
• 20 five-florin gems
• 26 one-florin coins
• 1 Indulgence ring