Torres, winner of the 2000 Spiel des Jahres award, is essentially a game of competitive collaboration in tower-building. Played on an eight-by-eight grid, players place plastic "tower blocks", building both outward and upward.
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TorresTabletop Tuesdays: Abstract Three Dimensional Strategy | Submitted by costik on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 01:02. |
Settlers of CatanTabletop Tuesdays | Submitted by IanSchreiber on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 02:44. |
If you were in one of a handful of places in 1995 in the United States, you knew that a revolution was starting. It's been going on quietly ever since, even though most people are still blissfully ignorant of it. This game, Settlers of Catan, was the opening shot.
AlhambraTabletop Tuesdays: Build the Best Pleasure Dome | Submitted by RedEl on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 17:21. |
Alhambra combines bidding, building and planning in an unusual and engaging board game. It's the successor of Henn’s earlier stock market game, Stimmt So, but Alhambra has been reworked with a Moorish theme and a tile-layering component. The object of the game is simple: using tiles depicting different building components and with different walls, each player tries to make the best (and biggest) Alhambra possible. Gameplay is simple, rules straightforward, but execution can be very complex. Here's how it works:
