Encyclopedia | Strategy Board Game | Dice and Worker Placement | 1 to 4 Players | 25+ Minutes | Ages 14+

If you have played Museum, or Museum Pictura, you need to get a copy of this game as well. If you haven't played those games... what's wrong with you? Get on that immediately! Basically while Museum and Museum Pictura are games where you spend cards to place cards and medium complexity, this is a game where you place dice to get various tokens and spend them to get and place cards (I'm drastically over-simplifying but you get the idea). People say this is a "heavy" game but it is not. It's a medium complexity dice placement game (like Discoveries: Lewis and Clark, Merchants of the Dark Road, etc). You have to make a lot of decisions about which dice to use to get which actions as dice in this game are basically "workers" from a worker placement game. THAT is pretty straightforward as you just have to use the right kind of die and get the right kind of bonuses for various values etc. Where the "heavy" comes in is the math. You're going to be adding number values of various tokens to get enough points to place/cash in a card and you'll perhaps yell in frustration when after 10 minutes of mental math you are ONE point too low in resources to do what you want. Ah, such is life. At any rate, THAT is the heavy part of the game. The MATH. If you can handle a lot of multiplication and addition (or just use a calculator) you should be fine. The gameplay itself is brilliant. The artwork is amazing. The rules are pretty clear but some people may be confused by the iconography and "different kinds of money". This game is quite honestly a 10/10 for me. I have played many hundreds of games and this is in my top 10. I consider the current price to be an absurd bargain. If you can handle more complex games (Terraforming Mars, Underwater Cities, Lost Ruins of Arnak) or enjoy pretty complex dice placement games (Merchants of the Dark Road, Discoveries: Lewis and Clark) I HIGHLY recommend this game, especially at this incredibly low price.

Nice, but items are written in French. I’m English.

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Good game, but poorly packaged. They placed it inside a very large box and without air insulators, the battered box arrived at my home. Too bad, I had to return it. Good packaging should be provided for the products.