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Arkadia Game Breakdown:
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Details:
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Ages: 10+
Avg. Time to Play: 60 minutes
Time to Learn: 45 minutes
Released: 2007
Publisher: Rio Grande Games
Designer(s): Rudiger Dorn
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In the Box:- 1 game board
- 1 building lot for the castle
- 4 screens
- 16 architect banners
- 40 building cards
- 40 buildings
- 88 seals
- 90 gold coins
- 28 square seal tiles
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$44.95
Our Price:
$34.95
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$10.00 (22%)
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Description:
In a remote land there lies a region with undulating hills and fertile valleys. Widely-travelled settlers have laid the foundation stone for the city of Arkadia. In addition to several other buildings, they want to construct a magnificent castle on a hill. Four wealthy families – the cloth merchants, the spice merchants, the carpenters and the silversmiths – want to enhance prestige and augment their influence. For this reason, they compete for the major contribution to the castle’s construction. Players act as architects. The four families commission them to plan and realise the build-up of the town and the castle.
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Arkadia involves building a city with a crowning castle at its center. Players try to complete buildings by playing workers and building tiles on the game board. When each building is finished, payment tokens are collected an addition can be made to the castle. Each castle piece added helps determine the value of the payment tokens collected, and at opportune times, payment tokens can be exchanged for gold. The object of the game is to accumulate the most gold. Arkadia is for 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up.
Arkadia is really an intriguing game, with fun game mechanics and plenty of decisions to make. There is some luck involved when drawing building cards, but the outcome of the game is mostly in the hands of the players. The game board, cards, and pieces are fun to play with, and the game proceeds along quite nicely once the rules are learned. Arkadia seems complicated at first, but is really not too hard to grasp and offers a lot of fun.
Setting up Arkadia takes a little longer than most other games, and the first time you play punching out pieces and sorting out the parts will take an extra 15 minutes. Our first game took a full 45 minutes to read the rules and setup the pieces, and 70 minutes to play. We recommend following the suggestion in the rule booklet for setting up and “seeding” the game board for the first time playing, as this helps things get rolling while you are still learning the rules. This game will take about the same amount of time whether you play with 2, 3, or 4 players, since the length of the game is equivalent to how long it takes to work through the deck of building cards.
Arkadia is classic European-style game fare, and it was a finalist in 2007 for the Spiel des Jahres award. It well deserves this honor—it is fun to play, not too hard to learn, and offers plenty of interesting playing options that will keep you coming back for more. We highly recommend Arkadia.
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User Reviews:
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We just played this game for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. There are elements of strategy and cooperative play necessary to win. Also, it comes down to the last player's turn as we found out. The person slotted to win the whole game saw their fortune drop to nothing as the formerly third place person vaulted to first with the placement of the last castle piece, and first fell to last. Fun for the whole family with nothing to worry about regarding content.
by Erik (Dec 26 2007)
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