In the mid 1800’s Barcelona, Spain was one of the most densely populated cities in Europe. Ildefons Cerda, a civil engineer had a better idea. Let’s expand outside the city walls and create areas with wide city streets, planned green spaces, and adequate space for pedestrians. In the game of Barcelona, players are builders working to create the area Cerda had envisioned by constructing buildings for the right citizens to live in, building streets, creating tram lines, and building public spaces. Modernisme, a new architectural and arts style gaining popularity among the well-to-do is there to explore. At the end of the game, the builder with the most points will be the winner of Barcelona. – – 1 to 4 players – – -60 to 90 minutes game time
Barcelona is a point salad kind of game. There are multiple ways to score points during the game and multiple ways to score points at the end of the game. A player’s turn starts by drawing two citizen tiles out of a bag. Ther are three types of citizens: working, middle, and upper class. Each type has a corresponding type of building they want to live in. The player stacks the two citizens and then places the stack on one of the many intersections on the board. At the end of each street there is an action tile. The player will take the action at the end of both the vertical and horizontal street. It is possible the intersection chosen could yield a third action.
The actions to be selected include gaining resources, constructing buildings, building streets – both narrow and wide, building intersections, and even building a tram. All of these actions can gain a player in-game points or set them up for gaining game end points. Every turn is going to be a big turn. Every game is going to be different. The action tiles at the end of each street can be changed every game. They are randomly placed at the start of the game during set up.
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