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Capstone Games  |  SKU: CTGFS1003 CSGFS1003

Crystal Palace

€54.36 EUR
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Description

Designer Carsten Lauber
Publisher Capstone Games
Players 2-5
Playtime 90-150 mins
Suggested Age 14 and up
Expansion Crystal Palace: Cards no 31
Honors 2020 Jogo do Ano Nominee
2020 Goblin Magnifico Nominee
2019 Meeples' Choice Nominee

In Crystal Palace, players take on the role of a nation at the time of the first World Fair in London (1851), trying to create a buzz with spectacular inventions and the support of famous and powerful people.

Crystal Palace is a dice-placement game in which the players themselves determine the stats of their dice at the beginning of each round. The higher the number, the better — but it comes at a price. In the course of the game, dice are placed on eight action locations (Patent Office, Reform Club, London Times, Port of London, Waterloo Station, British Museum, Bank of England, Westminster) in a competition for the best resources, patents, and brains.

In a world of slightly weird inventions, you will meet people like Phileas Fogg, Levi Strauss and Amelia Edwards, and invent gadgets such as the Thinking machine, the Beer glass counter or the Climate changer.

—description from the publisher

Customer Reviews

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Scott Brownlee
Complex but worth it

Crystal Palace is a really interesting worker placement/engine-building game. It's quite intricate and will take a while to get good at, but it looks like it will be worth the effort! The components are completely fine, the artwork is fun and interesting, and the board layout is really unique. If you don't bother to read the flavour text on the cards, though, the game will feel kind of generic.