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Sunrise City

ZOne Placement and Buildings

Sunrise City is a city building game; as one of the founders of the city you want to develop the best possible city. Your actions earn you points; whenever you reach or pass the star spot at the top of the score track you receive a Benchmark token and start again at the bottom of the track; at the end of three rounds you win with most Benchmark tokens. Each of the three rounds comprises the phases of Preparation, Zoning, Bidding and Construction. For the Preparation phase you draw four zone and four building tiles from the stacks and choose a role for the round from the three roles you drafted at the start. Each role has other advantages and consequences in the following phases. In the Zoning phase you place tiles; newly placed tiles must touch at least one tile already in place sidewalk-to-sidewalk; other borders need not correlate if more than one tile is bordered. Zone tiles placed correctly as regards to type, color or icon score you points. In the Bidding phase you bid for undeveloped zone tiles and can build on them in the Construction phase. For 1^st floor buildings you must have a bidding chip on at least one zone and the site must correlate sidewalk-to-sidewalk and the zone must correlate as regards to type/color/icon. Other floors can be added in correlation with type/color/icon.

Sunrise City fits seamlessly into the line of city building games published in 2012, bidding for undeveloped zone tiles and the possibility to build over waterways add interesting details; the three role cards you draft from four dealt at the start allow you a strategy over all three rounds.

Players: 2-4

Age: 13+

Time: 60+

Designer: Isaias Vallejo

Artist: Chip Nixon, Chris Kirkman

Price: on demand

Publisher: Clever Mojo 2012

Web: www.clevermojogames.com

Genre: City building, tile placement

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Role cards allow strategic planning over three rounds

Very attractive components

Standard topic with very nice details

Compares to:

Urbania, City Tycoon, Suburbia and other City Building Games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0