Board game Paris. Eiffel

At the end of the 19th century, Paris was transformed - its streets were filled with the enchanting light of electric lanterns. The gaming experience of board strategy fans will also never be the same after a game in Paris.... City of Lights, included in the TOP 30 best abstract games according to the BoardGameGeek website. In it, players will have to build city blocks, fighting for every cell of the illuminated pavement.This colorful box with additions will introduce you to new sights of the French capital and give you more than one exciting gaming evening. The set includes eight new activity cards with stunning illustrations and the much-anticipated scoring pad.Note! This is not a standalone game, but an addition to the game Paris. City of Lights.Paris. Eiffel: a little more about the gameIf you have already played the basic version, we recommend that you quickly correct this slight oversight and enjoy the masterpiece of game design from José Antonio Abascal . Paris. City of Lights is a conflict dueling strategy that turns intense competition into a pleasant walk through the streets of a European city. The simple basic rules remain the same. The game consists of two phases: in the first, you will place pavement tiles on the board and collect buildings in your supply, and in the second, you will construct these buildings, illuminate them with lanterns, and play out special actions on postcards.Under the lid of the box with a small addition is Paris. Eiffel greets us with a booklet with the rules - a welcome, like the latest issue of the news newspaper “The Little Parisian”. On the front page there is a note about the engineering genius Eiffel and his creation - a 300-meter tower, which did not leave a single person indifferent. Artists and writers have railed against the “useless and monstrous tower,” tourists have made it the most photographed structure in the world, and players are sure to fight for the right to personally erect it on the field.You'll also find eight action cards that can be mixed with cards from the base game for even more balance and options to earn victory points in this challenging and elegant city-building puzzle game. For example, the Arc de Triomphe does not count as a building, but gives the player extra points when determining the largest block, and the Eiffel Tower increases points for lanterns and empty pavement spaces. A compact, handy notebook will be useful for calculating the construction results at the end of the game, to take into account all the bonuses for points of interest and penalties for unlit buildings.1889, the World Exhibition takes place in Paris. The City of Lights continues to shine and delight its residents and visitors with beautiful views. Life is in full swing, crowds of tourists flooded squares and parks, lined up in front of the Louvre to see with their own eyes that very mysterious smile of Mona Lisa. Take a virtual tour right during the game, because this is perhaps one of the most thematic abstract games! No, we have not lost our minds over the views of Paris, like the artists of Montmartre, but we are ready to glorify it together with the designer Oriol Hernandez , who designed both boxes.Three-dimensional tokens of attractions, bright picturesque images of monuments on postcards inspire you to create a new travel route or look into an encyclopedia. Let's say, did you know that gargoyles are not only mythical monsters made of stone, but also quite practical elements of Gothic architecture that serve as drains? Or that the magnificent ancient Egyptian obelisk on the Place de la Concorde was brought to Paris in 1829 as a gift and weighs 220 tons! You will see on postcards, and then find out (if, of course, you want) how the poor neighborhoods in the city center have been transformed, what the underground labyrinths of the catacombs hide and other facts about the City of Lights. However, even without these cultural references and complicated historical dates, the game is still a fun dueling strategy game with original finds that make it stand out from similar creations. Game duration: 30 minutes
Number of players: 2
Age restrictions: 8+