Board game - Artline. Tretyakov Gallery

The collection of paintings in the Tretyakov Gallery is truly astonishing. To visit all the halls and exhibitions, you will need a lot of time! But it's worth it, especially if you love paintings. But what to do if you... want to visit the museum more often, while spending less time? There is a solution! And we certainly mean this board game. About the game
Despite its name, "Artline: Tretyakov Gallery" does not require any knowledge of art. You just need to be clever and approach the process with a creative mindset! This card game based on associations was developed in direct collaboration with the State Tretyakov Gallery. Each card in it is unique and represents one of the works of famous artists that you will encounter in the Tretyakov Gallery: from Repin and Vasnetsov to Shishkin and Aivazovsky. Artline will brighten your leisure time in every sense of the word: the meditative gameplay will help you broaden your creative horizons!By playing the cards, you will either open and expand galleries or hold exhibitions. The main thing is to choose a common theme for the paintings in the museum. It's all up to you, but it's important that the canvases depict something similar. A gallery dedicated to "people" or "animals"? A simple category, no problem! A gallery with paintings that have red in the clothing? It's already more complicated, but also more interesting.Sooner or later, it will come down to exhibitions. The galleries will overlap, and to add new paintings to them, the cards must meet both categories. Experiment with galleries to make it easier for you to play your cards for exhibitions!The game also offers several options for additional rules: "Exhibition Season" and "Curators' Competition".How to play?
Each player is dealt five cards in hand, from which they need to get rid of faster than their opponents. The table in front of you is a museum. An open card is placed in the center of the table to start opening galleries. The cards must continue in vertical or horizontal rows. Players take turns:Open galleries – if a player lays down a second card in a row, they announce the theme of the gallery. Then they can lay down cards in this row that match the requirement
Expand galleries – while continuing to play cards in the rows of galleries, players must adhere to the requirements of the galleries
Hold exhibitions – this is what every player strives for! To do this, they need to play a card in the "corner", i.e., at the intersection of two galleries, so that the card meets all the requirements. This action allows them to discard a card from their hand
Who won?
The game ends in the round when a player holds an exhibition and gets rid of their last card. All other players have one more turn to catch up with the leader.The game also stops if the cards run out in the deck – in this case, the player with the fewest remaining cards in hand wins. Game duration: from 30 minutesNumber of players: from 2 to 5