Z-Man Games to Release The Speicherstadt in English

Z-Man Games has announced that it will release the Stefan Feld title Die Speicherstadt in English under the name – wait for it – The Speicherstadt. (2-5 players, ages 8+, 45 minutes) As Z-Man’s Zev Shlasinger writes on his sneak peak page, “cause Warehouse just ain’t exciting.”

In case you missed this March 2010 item about eggertspiele’s release of the game, here’s a brief description of game play:

Players have three workers that they allocate to the available cards each round, with one more card on display than the number of players. Once all the workers have been placed, cards are sold from left to right; the player owning the first worker in line has the first option of buying the card at a cost of one coin per worker in that line. If the player passes, he removes his worker, thus dropping the price for the next worker in line. After each round, each player receives one coin, with those who bought no cards receiving two coins.

Ship cards contain three randomly drawn goods. The other cards available include clients who want particular goods, firemen, buildings that provide storage or a way to convert goods to money immediately, and cards worth only victory points. Four fire cards are mixed into the deck, which has sets of cards arranged in particular layers. When a fire is drawn, the player with the most firemen earns VPs while the one with the fewest loses points. The game ends with the fourth fire, then players tally their VPs.

This game has been added to Gone Cardboard.

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