On our turn we can do a lot of different actions. Most important to fulfil the queen's wishes is the theft of food and silver. Theft? Well, those Pixies – although pitiful creatures themselves – are also nasty. But what else can they do, if their queen demands apples in a round and a bread in the other? There is only one way: they have to steal from the humans in the village. But we can also trade goods and give our opponents the needle in many various ways. All in all we have 20 different actions, all well symbolized on the gameboard.

At the end of the round, it is time to offering our food, silver and gold to the queen. Silver and Gold are always interesting, but each round the queen demands something different to eat. This is done in a bidding round, in which every player takes resources from his supply in his hand. At a command all players simultaneously open their fists and then it is time for rewards and penalties. Of course, a player who has the most and the right type of resources scores most and Pixies promote to higher levels on their way to the castle.

I found Pixie Queen to be a wonderful worker placement game. The gameboard is quite impressive and there are so many different actions, that it surely will take some time to find the best strategy to prevent penalties. But of course, that's what your opponents will do too. There are some interesting twists. A lot of interaction and the one or other mean move will be consectaneous. Especially in the higher levels, close to the castle, the game forces players to interact due to limited spaces for the Pixies to go.