Each player takes two tokens of one color - one placed in front of themselves to denote what color they are, and the other placed at the zero space on the scoring track that winds it way around the board. Four decks of cards (green workers, blue buildings, orange aristocrats, and multi-color trading cards) are shuffled and placed down in piles on their respective spots on the game board. The theme of the game involves players being involved in the building of the great city of St.
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I am more prone to enjoying analytical games in a two-player setting and as a math teacher, I enjoy the mental math one has the option of doing in the game. I would have been a bigger detractor of the game, but after a two-player game, I saw more value in it. Petersburg it’s a fine game but not “great.” My biggest problem with it is that the strategy becomes all too apparent, and one almost feels like a calculating AI of a computer, mentally computing the best move to take at each point. I do believe, however, that the game is a “shooting star”, much as Transamerica or other games that had huge bursts in popularity and have now reduced to merely a “good” game. When I was Origins, people were playing it everywhere I see session reports for it all over the internet, and the praises ring out loud. My pick for the IGA would have been Goa, but I do understand the immense popularity of St. If one game award matches my pick for the year, I count myself lucky and this year Ticket to Ride won the Spiel des Jahres.
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As usual, this award (as with all awards) has kicked up debate all over the internet on the merits as to whether it should have won who should have won, etc. Petersburg (Rio Grande Games - 2004, Michael Tummelhofer) has won the general strategy award. Well, the International Gamers Awards for 2004 have just been announced, and St.