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la Rosenberg, with two pointers. It regu- lates the maximum storage quantity of the resources. Action selection is accom- plished with a pile of action tokens, the bottom one of which remains in place and blocks that particular space as the pile moves on. Later in the game, additional action spaces become available, provid- ed the buildings on them have all been built. The game was crowdfunded, but there may still be some copies available on the publisher’s website after shipping begins. Oranienburger Kanal has been
companies are of particular interest to them via a face-down nationalization tile before the game.
They then take turns as the auction- eer, writing a starting bid openly on the company tile. After which all others note down their secret bid and hand it to the auctioneer for silent assessment. Finally, the highest bidder gets the tile, but their actual bid is hidden on the back of the tile. Everybody keeps wondering: How high was the bid? How much can I still spend without being eliminated? Victory points are also awarded for bids with zero value, as well as for matching national- ization, monopolizations or diversifica- tions. And finally, the thriftiest player also gets a victory point bonus. But will it be enough? Q.E., a localization of a Board Game Tables game by Gavin Birnbaum,
announced for December.
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.E. (which stands for Quantitative Eas- ing) sounds like a complex economics
game, but you couldn‘t be more wrong to assume that: In the 2008 financial crisis, nations bid to bail out
companies critical to the
system. Well, instead, the publishers present Q.E. as a half-hour family game for three to five gamblers, ages ten and up.
The two ideas go to- gether, because you can bid literally any amount to get it your way. The trick is not to overdo it: Whoever has spent the most money at the end of the game is eliminat- ed—no matter how many companies they have saved. Until then, there are 15 or 16 auctions, each involving one com- pany. Players learn which
will be released in October.
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only the canal in Berlin, but also the in-
dustrial areas around it, with an incred- ible 360 buildings. All of this is spread over two expansions and bundled as well as explained by several glossaries.
Buildings can be scored twice in the game: Provided they are completely en- closed by roads and rail tracks or con- nected by two bridges. Then their specific actions get triggered. For this, money is in play, and once more, a resource dial à
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