Wall builder

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Wall builder
Game data
author Leo Colovini
publishing company Hans im Glück Verlag ,
Rio Grande Games ,
999 Games
Publishing year 2006
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 45 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Awards

German Games Prize 2006: 7th place

Mauerbauer is a board game of the type of building the game of Leo Colovini that in 2006 in Luck Hans appeared. The game for 2-4 people, ages 8 and up, takes about 45 minutes and was awarded 7th place in the 2006 German Games Prize .

Theme and equipment

In turn, players place walls, towers and houses from which cities grow together. The game board shows an abstract landscape, which is divided by equilateral triangles. Their sides can be built on with the walls. The pieces of wall, towers, houses and palaces are made of colored wood.

Game flow

After a player has placed a new piece of the wall, he throws one tower and two house dice. The tower cube determines the color of the tower to be placed at the end of the wall. If the wall is free so far, the player can freely determine the other tower. The house dice show colors or a question mark. You determine the color of the two houses that are placed on the left and right of the wall in the adjacent triangular field. The player decides which color to put on which side and with the question mark he also decides freely about the color of the house.

If a city is completed by a piece of the wall (the wall closed), all players can play guild cards and collect points for buildings in the city according to the criteria of the cards played. As usual in family games, players who are behind are somewhat favored by the rules; on certain occasions they are allowed to exchange their hand cards for new ones from the pile.

On the one hand, chance plays a role due to the dice, but its share is rather small because of the many decisions that remain with the player. More important are the cards in the player's hand and the possibility that another player can hold the same multiple cards in hand and thus benefit from the city built according to his own interests over many moves.

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