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Essen

Daily business at SPIEL

As a games publisher you want to attract visitors at SPIEL to your booth, sell games to them and thus earn most money. In this game SPIEL lasts for eight rounds, two each for the mornings and afternoons of the four days of the fair. In each round visitors come to the booths and bring money, in relation to buzz you created.

On a central board you keep track of communal sales, bonuses that can be expected and also special offers, ads and so on. The individual player boards represent exhibitor booths, in which there are four demo tables that you can change into sales tables and also room for visitors to queue up.

On this booth board you play five phases in each round: 1) Booth Set-up with number of visitors, 10-40, they are evenly distributed to players who prepare sales and demo tables accordingly. 2) Actions with options of driving sales, creating buzz, competing directly or claiming special offer / advertising / special accountant by buying this from the central board. 3) Sales with income and adaption prices. 4) Create Buzz to attract visitors. 5) Clean up your booth with clearing tables and using an accountant tile. After eight such rounds you win with most money from sales and bonuses.

This is a game of which you ask yourself, why it has not been done before - the world’s biggest games fair is wittily and profoundly turned into the topic and mechanisms imitate the event very well; all in all a solid, well-working game not only for insiders and visitors to Essen, including a cute detail - money is represented by the backside of visitor tiles, so you need to spend money to ensure that lots of visitors can come.

Players: 2-4/8

Age: 12+

Time: 50+

Designer: Harry-Pekka Kuusela

Artist: Joe Pendon, Maciej Mutwil

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: LudiCreations 2014

Web: www.ludicreations.com

Genre: Worker placement

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Of interest also for people who do not know Spiel at Essen

Topic nicely implemented with well-working mechanisms

Can also be played by eight people if you combine two games

Compares to:

Essen The Game as to topic, otherwise Worker placement games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0