Sankt Petersburg

Players want to recreate the development of St. Petersburg and hire craftsmen, erect buildings and recruit noblemen. These bring in money or score points or do both, the noblemen score additional points at the end of the game. The game is played in turns, each turn has a phase for craftsmen, a phase for buildings and a phase for the nobility, then a phase for exchange cards. Each phase has actions, scoring and displaying new cards. Actions are buying, take up or display. The player with the highest score at the end wins.

Development game with cards * 2-4 players from age 10 * Designer: Michael Tummelhofer * ca. 90 min * 48140, Hans im Glück, Germany, 2004 *** Hans im Glück Verlags-GmbH * www.hans-im-glueck.de