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Chicago

Casinos and Moonshine

You are boss of a syndicate in Chicago, making money with Casinos and moonshine und deploying your henchmen.

In each round of the game you have one turn of six facultative phases: 1) Bail out henchmen from jail; 2) use three action points to recruit, place or move henchmen; conflict – killed henchmen need funerals, which you must pay for; you can only fight if you can pay for potential funerals; 4) income from controlled areas; casinos double the income of the respective area, a moonshine distillery doubles the total income; 5) build a casino or distillery or 6) donate to charity.

After one turn for all, the poorest player turns Snitch. The Snitch decides to who he gives information and you deal with the consequences of this snitching: The snitch draws a chip from the bag – if it is a normal policeman he can be bribed; if it as Untouchable the snitch chooses a player who loses all casinos, distilleries and minions and you also remove a normal policeman. Players always keep their money secret and can lie when asked for their balance; but at the start of round 7 and 10 all players must name their cash total correctly. After twelve rounds prohibition ends after the last player turn, the Snitch phase is not implemented. The richest player is arrested and half of his money is confiscated; the player who is now richest – usually another player – now wins!

A game on a Chicago topic as many, but the Al-Capone-similar end gives it an unusual touch. So staying demurely in the background could win you the game, provided the others leave you to your business and you can use Untouchables against them.

Players: 3-4

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Gin’ichiro Suzuki

Artist: Takumi Suzuki

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Show Enterprise 2012

Web: http://www.gamers-jp.com/japonbrand

Genre: Worker Placement

Users: With friends

Version: jp

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Wittily adapted standard mechanisms

Special touch from the game-end rule for the richest player

The game comes with Japanese rules only, other languages available as download

Compares to:

All games with Chicago/gang/Mafia topics

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0