Thursday, August 23, 2007

Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. The game has spawned many expansions and spinoffs, inspired several PC and console versions, and the wooden follower pieces from the basic game (colloquially called meeples, a portmanteau of my people) have become a symbol of European board gaming.


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Monday, August 20, 2007

Cartagena

This game tries to reproduce a famous 1672 jailbreak of about 30 pirates from the supposedly impregnable fortress of Cartagena. Each player controls a group of pirates and tries to have all of them escape through the tortuous underground passage that connects the fortress to the port, where a sloop is waiting. As soon as a player has brought his pirates aboard, the sloop sails away and the game is over. In the original game the number of pirates for each player is 6, in the online version you can choose the number of pirates each player will use during the game in a range from 4 to 8.



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Settlers of Catan

The players in the game represent the eponymous settlers, establishing a colony on the previously uninhabited island of Catan. The island itself is laid out randomly at the beginning of each game from hexagonal tiles ("hexes") of different land types each producing one type of resource: ore, grain, wool, lumber, or clay (brick). One hex is desert which does not produce anything.



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Sunday, August 19, 2007