This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.If you like beautiful artwork - especially artwork that evokes classical Americana themes and you like solid roll and writes with a delicious balance between depth and complexity - Welcome To is the game for you. Sometimes themes can feel pasted on in this genre of game but in Welcome To it just clicks. Also the way the designer tied the theme into the game play works very well and feel intuitive. I got my copy earlier this year directly from the French publisher (all the cards and score sheets are in English, and the rules were dual-language) and have played it quite a few times (both solo and 2 player).įor me the art in particular elevates this game above many other roll and writes I’ve played. It’s also pretty portable with the scoresheets and the decks of construction and city planning cards being the only additional component. Like many roll and writes, it’s the kind of game you will want to play a few times in a sitting. I haven’t played at higher than 2p, but I think it would be very simple to play with a larger group. It’s got a very well calibrated balance between complexity and simplicity. The game moves quite quickly at 2 players and is very smooth and even faster for solo play (you’re just flipping through a deck of cards). The game ends when, 1) a player crosses off their third Building Permit Refusal 2) a completes all three City Plans or 3) a player has placed numbers in every house of each of their 3 rows of houses.Points are awarded for homes built with swimming pools, creating gardens, using the ‘Temp agency’ to change number values, using the real estate agent to increase home values and completing special ‘City Plan’ cards (these offer additional points for completing various housing plots).Numbers are entered in ascending order from left to right in an empty house plot - but you can start anywhere and skip plots if you like.(In the Solo variant, you pull three cards from a single stack of construction cards and combine the action/number of two of these cards.) One player reveals these cards and then all players get to choose which combination of these cards they’d like to use. The ‘rolling’ aspect of the game is driven by 3 stacks of ‘construction’ cards that feature both numbers and different special abilities/actions.As well as a few additional spaces for marking off special actions and scores. Each player takes a score sheet showing a stylised version of a 1950s, American Suburb.One of the games in this genre that really caught my eye was ‘Welcome To…’ a roll and write game that uses cards instead of dice, and supports 1 to a rather ambitious 99 players. 2018 seems to be the year of Roll and Write games - and things have evolved quite a lot from the humble days of Yahtzee.
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