BRIO was founded in Sweden in 1884 and is a world renown brand best known for its wooden railways first created the 1958 and sold throughout the world.

We have just played with 2 of us on a Sunday afternoon and ended up doing best of 3 as the results were so close. Clear instructions – high quality, Easy to understand instructions make it easy to start playing right away. The artwork within the game may be simplistic but it’s certainly vibrant – every time I photograph my plays it just pops. The alea 20th anniversary edition offers a more colorful aesthetic and loads of expansions, including solo and team play, and I strongly recommend this edition over the classic. As an influential duke it is your goal to lead your estates to prosperity through strategic expansion and trade.

Players aim to build regions (colored sections) in their dutchy to gain depreciating completion bonuses. The winner will win on the margin, through good play throughout, and even though it’s a dice game you will rarely feel like randomness was the reason for your failure or success. They include days out, places of interest, nostalgia, cottages, gardens, fantasy, wildlife, comedy, perplexing, crazy cats, What If? According to the rules, the players choose their boards, but I think it's more honest to close your eyes, shuffle and pick randomly, because there's a huge difference from one board to another.

On one hand, I understand the arguments for the idea that a soft point floor is inelegant design, but I also appreciate that it’s nice to get points. In Castles of Burgundy, players collect hexagonal tiles to fill their personal player boards [8] by drafting them via dice they've collected, and then gain benefits for each tile placed. As a corollary to the previous point, do not fall into the sunk cost fallacy, particularly when it comes to farms. While this is less important in 3-4 player games, you absolutely should not make the fatal mistake with any player count of only looking at your own board. From academic progress and city development, to agriculture and trading, many roads to prosperity are open to you.So best case scenario is probably filling a 1 size region in the first round and a 2 size region in the second round.