Don Quixote: the ingenious hidalgo - the board game

Recreate Don Quixote's story, surprise other players and become the most influential narrator

Based on the famous novel from Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote is a fun game of wit and strategy for 2-6 players, aged 8-99, with 20min play time.


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Play characters to shape the plot

Players simultaneously play character cards to determine the outcome of Don Quixote's adventures and move one of DQ's love, delusion, glory or obsession.

At the end of the game, you will score points for achieving your personal secretive objective. Each character you played is associated with one of DQ's attributes, and it will also score you bonus points depending on its value.

Can you understand other players plan and adapt your strategy to take advantage of it?

Testimonial from Bella: Love the bidding element of Don Quixote: the ingenious hidalgo, especially as you don't know what other players objectives are. Overall I really enjoyed this game!

Discover the original story

You will explore the stories told in the masterpiece that Miguel de Cervantes created.

Each card has a code - enter it in story table below, and discover the backstory! (use a desktop to use the search functionality)

It's a great way to learn about this beautiful work and its message, while having fun. Discover how Alonso became Don Quixote, how did windmills turn into giants and learn about his quest for Dulcinea's love...

Testimonial from BO: It really feels like you're telling stories while you're playing. I had a lot of fun playing this - and have just ordered Don Quixote at the bookstore because of it!
Testimonial from Bella: The game comes with some incredibly stunning cards and unique art style.The story telling is beautiful and 
allows you to learn a lot about the story

What's inside the box

✨ Double sided board
✨ 50mm wooden mini
✨ 4 wooden tokens
✨ 10 foil cardboard tokens
✨ 160 cards (adventure, characters, objectives)
✨ 60 unique illustrations

Components in Don Quixote: the ingenious hidalgo board game

Game play: plan your strategy and surprise other players

🤠 Like in the book, things will heat up in the second part of the game. DQ's attributes will take river shortcuts, creating surprising turn of events and allowing you to come up with a number of strategies

😏You can use special items to help you plan a surprise, for example playing a timely donkey to add extra votes and swing the vote of a critical adventure, or using a poison to have other players play one round blindly

➡️ Read the full rulebook here

Game experience: capturing the spirit of the book

We aimed to capture the spirit of the classic novel when designing the game.

While each person is different and will of course feel different emotions, we try to have players experience a mix of devious strategies, bold decisions, some whimsical moments and a dash of chaos.

Have you played the game? tell us what you felt!

DQ Experience Survey

The knight of the white moon, with its cape moved by the wind.

Pre-order now

The game will ship in February 2025, you can pre-order now. We will notify you once the game gets shipped.

About us

Andrea and Cassandra, the friends behind Llamascape Games
Andrea (left) and Cassandra (right)

We are a small board game studio based in UK, where the company Llamascape Games is registered. Most of the work is done by me, Andrea La Rosa, with the amazing support of Cassandra Vargiu.

You can read more about us here.

Don Quixote is the first game we are releasing, with two more in the pipeline.
Below you can see some pictures of the journey that brought us to create Don Quixote: the ingenious hidalgo.

We are grateful to the tens of friends and people at conventions who played the game!