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The City

One Victory point per car in each city

Build a city in 20 minutes and collect most victory points? This is your task in The City! The game features cards used both for buildings and as money, a mechanism known from San Juan and other games. Each card shows a name and a value for the building costs, as well as symbols in the upper left-hand corner for cars, fountains and shopping centers and - in the bottom left-hand corner - markings for income and victory points, sometimes in combinations with symbols from the top left-hand corner. Each round comprises three steps: Choose a card from your hand, build it by placing the card, draw income and count victory points. All these steps are done simultaneously by all players. The cost for each card placed is paid by discarding the appropriate number of cards from your hand. For income you draw the corresponding number of cards from the stack. Some cards yield income and victory points in relation to other cards in your own city or in the cities of your opponents. If you relinquish building you can draw a card according to exact rules or – only once in the game – build an architect card for free, the architect earns you one card income in each round. Some cards demand certain conditions in order to be built, other cards may be present only once in your city. If you reach or top a score of 50 points at the end of a round, you win immediately.

The City offers an interesting version of the multi-function-mechanism of cards, as money and resources, but this version has a very high element of chance as you can only choose from your cards in hand and it costs an entire round to amend this choice by one card.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 20+

Designer: Tom Lehmann

Artist: Klemens Franz

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2011

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Card placement game

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Short duration

Simple rules

High element of chance

Compares to:

Glory to Rome, Race for the Galaxy and other card placement games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0