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Family Board Games Saint Petersburg Review

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(More customer reviews)Need I say more? The best game ever! :-)
(My excitement for this game unfortunately hasn't carried over to most of my friends, who groan whenever I mention wanting to play this game again and again)

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Baroque palaces, wide boulevards, and elegant bridges: St Petersburg. On May 16, 1703, Czar Peter the Great lays the foundation for the first building. Quickly impressive buildings are erected that are ever more grand and beautiful. Such buildings bring the aristocracy glory and the players victory points. But you need traders to bring the rubles necessary for all this magnificence, otherwise, the buildings are empty and bare. But the competition never sleeps and may grab needed cards right from under your nose. St Petersburg: the card game of beautiful living on the Neva. Ages 10 and Up - 2 to 4 Players

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Portobello Market Review

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We have played this more times now. It's not that interesting so I would bump the score down to 2 stars.

This game has an unusual movement and scoring logic to it. We have only played it once but enjoyed it (2 people). The game went quickly. I liked its brevity (30 minutes) and the mix of tactics vs chance. If you enjoy Lost Cities, you might want to add this. Although completely different, it left me with that feeling.

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London, 1901: Shopkeepers gather at the world-famous Portobello Market to set up their stalls in the most lucrative places. Build your shops in the most profitable districts to draw in the wealthiest customers and snatch your opponents' best lanes. The Bobby determines where stalls can be built, but with a little effort you can put the Bobby where you want it to be! For two to four players.

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Carcassonne: The Tower Expansion Review

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(More customer reviews)This expansion to Carcassonne is simple to learn, but changes the game in a pretty dramatic way. The box includes 18 new tiles (all with a tower base printed on them), wooden tower construction pieces, and a cardboard tower to use to stack unplayed tiles.
The way the towers work is interesting. When a player places a tile with a tower base printed on it, he can either play on the tile's roads, cities, etc. as usual or place a tower building block on the tile. When he (let's call him Bob) places a tower block, he may remove a marker from an adjacent square belonging to an opponent (let's call her Alice) and hold it hostage. Bob will keep Alice's piece hostage until Alice captures one of Bob's pieces with a tower she builds.
Players are not limited to placing tower blocks on the piece they just played. A tower block can be placed on any tower piece that has been played previously. As towers grow taller, the zone vulnerable to capture from that tower expands. A tower can be built to unlimited height, but if a player puts one of his or her colored game markers on top of the tower, it can no longer be added to.
The tower concept really changes the strategy in the game. At any time, an opponent could draw a tower square, place it next to your uncompleted city, and steal your colored piece. Because of this constant risk of attack, it is often best to complete roads and cities early to lock in points. Also, playing right next to a tower piece is usually foolish, so the game surface tends to be more spread out than in the basic game.
I do enjoy the tower expansion overall. It really makes you rethink your strategy for the game, which I think is always a good test for an expansion pack. That said, I think some of the other expansions (particularly the Inns & Cathedrals and Traders & Builders expansions) are better. Try those first.

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Ever upwards in Carcassonne! In this Carcassonne expansion, players have the opportunity to build upwards. The lords of the region around Carcassonne erect towers to strengthen and promote their power and influence. They employ followers to stand guard on the towers, watching over the land so they can inform their lords of all who travel and move throughout the area. Players may capture opponents' followers, holding them in prison. Later, the players may arrange a prisoner exchange to the advantage of the players invloved. Also, a player may arrange to pay ransom for the return of an imprisoned follower. Fans of Carcassonne will enjoy the new tactical opportunities offered by this expansion. The expansion also includes a special tower for storing the landscape tiles, giving players a convenient way to draw tiles during the game. This is an expansion to the popular Carcassonne game that is for 2 to 6 players. You need to have Carcassonne in order to play with this expansion.

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St. Petersburg Expansion Review

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(More customer reviews)Our family really enjoys playing this game! Once learned, it goes quickly and this expansion piece adds to the enjoyment with additional cards.

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The New Society adds 36 cards with purple dots to distinguish them and the parts to allow 5 players to play. In addition, the game adds several cards and provides other cards to replace those in the original game.The Banquet adds 12 cards with gold dots to distinguish them. The deck includes 3 "normal" cards and 9 cards that offer special abilities very different from those of workers, buildings, and aristocrats.Each expansion must be played with the basic game. Players may also play both expansions together with the basic game. Of course, creative players may choose to use some, but not all of each to make their own game and play

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Agricola Vegeemeeples -194 piece Euro Token Set Review

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(More customer reviews)Recently I purchased the Vegeemeeples euro token set for the game Agricola. In general I am pleased with the quality of the pieces. They seem relatively solid (as much as little wooden pieces can be). My disappointment lies with the quantity of the pieces. It seems they were trying to satisfy too many games with all the pieces. My first game of Agricola (playing a 5 person game), I ran out of wood and brick in small amounts (2-3 pieces) throughout the game. I used the original colored wooden discs that come with the game to substitute in when I had to and that was ok. I had no need for the chicken legs or the gold (I think those are for the Stone Age game?) Needless to say, every game is going to require different quantities depending on the strategy each time, but they should have made this set larger if they wanted to appeal to all games.
I finally figured out that I can buy both the brick and wood independently in sets of 10 qty (as well as all the other pieces). I kept searching for "meeples" but the search terminology should be "wooden token set". That will turn up the small sets that sell for around $2.25. Most will have super saver shipping but not all.
Is it worth it? Well, it definitely takes the cuteness factor up a huge notch. I have these and the animeeples and people meeples and think they definitely add fun factor. If you can afford them, I would highly recommend them.

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Check out the details of this amazing set! 1. 33 Wood-shaped dark-brown pieces. These wood tokens will be of simple design but still look like a piece of dark brown wood or a branch from a tree (stick). 2. 27 dark red pieces. These will be a brick and basically a brick shape. It will work as a brick in most games, or could also be considered a clay. 3. 15 light white counters. These generic white food or cat-tail markers will be great for general token replacement. They will be fatter on the bottom and skinnier on the top than the grain tokens but of a similiar look. 4. 20 grey stone counters. They will have a granite/ dark gray color to them. 5. 27 yellow wheat counters. These will be yellow like bundles and stand up by themselves. 6. 18 orange carrots or food counters. These will look like carrots, orange and just carrot shaped. 7. 36 additional food markers. These will be in 3 varieties, a simple bread, 12 of these. Also 12 Fish tokens (wooden, fish shaped), and 12 chicken leg / drum stick shaped pieces of meat. 8. 12 Gold markers. These trapazoid shaped gold markers are great for all those euro games that require gold of any sort. These will look like a real gold brick in terms of shape and not a lame yellow cube like most games have in them. The total number of pieces then is 33 wood, 27 bricks, 15 white tokens, 20 stone, 27 wheat, 12 gold, 18 carrots and 36 additional food (12 each of bread, fish and drum-sticks/chicken leg). Total of 188 pieces all together. So what can you do with this set? Many kids say they are very very excited to play Farm with them, only with smaller, high-quality wooden components. They will also be a good generic token replacement set, you could use them for Stone Age, Powergird, or just about any other "euro" game. Use the wood to power your Powergrid factories! Use all of the Stone, Gold and Wood for Kingsburg! Use these for Agricola! Try them for any other game!

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Agricola Animeeples Sheep Pig and Cattle 60 pcs set Review

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(More customer reviews)Some of the other reviews here are just bizarre. They are little wooden pieces in fun shapes that work with the Agricola game or other games, just as described. The idea that they need to be tested, supported, etc. or else they aren't a good product is just insane. If you're the kind of person who can't figure out how a wooden game token works and figure you'll call up the tech support line or something to get help or return it because it doesn't do what you expected it to do (like get up and dance around the board on their own or something), then you aren't bright enough to be playing a board game in the first place and wouldn't figure out how to make the ones that Z-Man games packed with pre-orders either.

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We have again answered the mayday for quality components! Our custom designed and hand made Wooden Farm Animal Set! These agriculturally based farm animals include the following: 25 white sheep (16 mm each in size) 20 black pigs (16 mm) 15 brown cows (20 mm) What is this item all about? Do your kids like to watch you play board games? Do they constantly play around with your wooden game parts or other tokens? Well this can solve the problem, put a few of these off to the side when setting up any game as they are game-token sized and of high quality wood. Put a couple at random out on the board for no apparent reason and then when your kids try to play with your tokens or other actual important items, hand them a few of these to play with! Problem solved, they can do all kinds of cool stuff with them and it will save your game! These can also be used to replace other parts for other games if you so choose, have fun by trading out your Carcassonne meeples for sheep, pigs and cattle, or use them to replace the components in El Grande, Settlers of Catan, Agricola, Clue or many other games. Yes Clue. It was Mrs. Sheep in the ballroom with the lead pipe. We don't care what you do with them, just buy them.

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Agricola Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been an active player of board games for at least 35 years. I've played games at all levels of complexity, ranging from tournament level Avalon-Hill bookcase games to family and party card and boardgames. For the past five or so years my favorite board game has been "The Settlers of Catan" (and its variants), that is, until I played "Agricola".
OK, first, a bit about the game...
Each player in the game (up to 5 can play) represent a farmer in 1670 AD and his spouse. About now you may be thinking, "yawn," but just wait, there is some real strategy and fun to be had here. Play progresses as players use their farmer and spouse each turn to do different things including the possibility of building a larger house, raising crops, fencing in pastures, collecting food, collecting animals, having children (that can also work each turn), etc. All the way through the game there is a real challenge when it comes to feeding your family, and improving your lot in life. You can improve your chances of success by playing occupation cards that give your players different capabilites, and by playing cards that represent a variety of differing improvements to your house, fields, etc.
The neat thing about this game is that every occupation card and every improvement card is unique, and because players are dealt only a limited number of cards at the beginning of the game, the game is never the same twice.
This game takes about twice as long to play as a round of "The Settlers of Catan", but the time flies when you play.
Many websites that rank the popularity of games are seeing this game climb rapidly to the top of those rankings.
If you enjoy a game that employs a small element of luck (the cards you are dealt), and a large degree of strategy (what to work to have your family members do each turn), then this game may be for you. So, if you have taken games like "The Settlers of Catan", "Ticket to Ride", and "Carcassone" as far as you can and you are ready for a bit larger gaming challenge then you will not be disappointed with this offering.
OK, one last experience - my wife and I were playing this game recently when our 9-yr-old daughter came up and asked, "Is that game like the 'Game of Life'?" After a moment's reflection I told her it was more like the game of "real" life. You know, working hard, scrambling to feed the family, accumulating different commodities to improve the house, etc.
When I opened my copy of the game I was impressed that the game company had the foresight to go so far as to include a bag of small reclosable plastic bags that can be used to separate the different pieces and types of cards from each other, thus helping keep the game better organized in the box and making for quicker set-up times whenever you want to play. Thanks Z-Man Games!
This game is worth far more than 5 stars!
I believe that this game will remain a favorite of mine for many years to come.
I hope this review was helpful.
Note: One last thing, it is WAY easier to learn to play this game if you can hook up with someone that already plays the game than by reading the rules on your own.

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