New from Devir Games is Cities, a fairly lightweight city-building game. The object of the game is to score the most points by constructing the best set of buildings, parks, and lakes. There are eight rounds. In each round every player will select a scoring card, a city tile, a set of feature tiles, and a set of buildings. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 40 minutes
At the start of the game an achievement board is selected. There are four double-sided boards representing eight cities from around the world. Each city defines three methods to score points based on which player meets the criteria (1st, 2nd, & 3rd). These are a speed race. Before each turn four scoring cards will be laid out with three placed face-up and one face-down making up row 1. Row 2 will get four city tiles laid out in the same configuration, three face-up and one face-down. Row 3 will get six feature tiles laid out in groupings: group 1 having two face-up tiles, groups 2 and 3 having one face-up tile each, and group 4 with one tile face-up and one tile face-down. Finally, Row 4 will consist of buildings, randomly drawn from a bag and laid out in various sets: group 1 with 4 buildings, groups 2 and 3 with 3 buildings each, and group 4 will have the first player token and the ability to draw 2 random tiles from the bag.
On their turn, a player will choose one of the rows and select one of the items (or group of items). They will only go to that row one time during the round. The next player then choses from any of the rows and selects an item (or group of items). The round continues in this manner until all players have selected from each of the four rows. At the end of the round each player will have selected and played one scoring card, one city tile, a set of feature tiles, and a set of buildings. Set up and play rounds 2 through 8 in the same manner. After eight rounds every player will have a 3×3 grid of city tiles that includes their starter tile. They will also have eight scoring cards. Some city tiles will house features in their parks and in their lakes. Some city tiles will have buildings from one to four stories high. Buildings come in four different colors.
Final scoring involves awarding points for the players that met the goals on the achievement board. Score additional points for feature tiles on each of your lake and park tiles as well your scoring cards where the criteria were met. The player with the most points wins.
Cities is a game that is easy to teach and fairly quick to play. Players will make four decisions in each of eight rounds. Each decision is significant. the game invites plenty of interaction because your opponents will invariably take the tiles or scoring card that you need.
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