My City

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My City
Game data
author Pure Knizia
graphic Michael Menzel
publishing company Cosmos games ,
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Publishing year 2020
Art Legacy game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 30 to 90 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Awards

My City with the subtitle “Your city will be unique!” Is a board and placement game by the German game designer Reiner Knizia , which was published in 2020 by Kosmos-Spieleverlag . It is a legacy game , i.e. a game in which the game changes and develops over several rounds. Thematically, the players build their own city from different parts of the building and try to score points with it.

Background and game material

My City is a legacy board game in which the players each try to build a city from a set of tiles on their own player board and thus score as many points as possible. As a legacy game, the game is played over a total of 24 rounds, each of which is thematically assigned to an epoch out of three rounds. Each round is a separate game and takes about 30 to 90 minutes. In each epoch, new rules and options are added to the basic game and at the end of each round the components of the other players are modified depending on the game result. The next round is then played with the modified game material. In addition to this evolving game, there is also a stable version of the game on the backs of the player boards that can be played without legacy effects. The game material consists of the game instructions

  • four double-sided printed game boards that are the same for all players at the beginning of the first round of the game,
  • 96 tiles in four sets, each with 8 buildings in three colors (yellow residential buildings, red public buildings and blue commercial buildings),
  • four counting stones,
  • 24 counting stones, and
  • 8 envelopes with additional game material that will be added gradually to the game.

Style of play

At the beginning of each round, each player receives a game board and a scoring marker, which he places on the number 10 on the scoring track. Each game board is marked with an animal symbol and each player receives the set of 24 building tiles belonging to his symbol. The buildings are laid out openly next to the game boards. The 24 building cards, on which the available buildings are shown, are shuffled and placed face down as a draw pile. In this game the buildings that will be built and the order in which they will be built are determined by these building cards.

At the beginning of each round, the additional rules required for this round are read out and any additional game material is distributed according to the specifications. These are in the envelopes that each contain the additional materials for three rounds. Each 3 games are grouped into one chapter:

  • Chapter 1: The New Land (Games 1 through 3)
  • Chapter 2: The Churches (Games 4 through 6)
  • Chapter 3: The Flood (Games 7 through 9)
  • Chapter 4: The Gold Rush (Games 10 to 12)
  • Chapter 5: The Factories (Games 13 to 15)
  • Chapter 6: The Mining (Games 16-18)
  • Chapter 7: The Railroad (Games 19-21)
  • Chapter 8: Prosperity (Games 22 to 24)

Basically, however, there are some rules of the game that apply to all rounds and are adjusted depending on the round. Each game begins with a predetermined number of rounds. In each round, the top construction card is revealed and the players take the corresponding buildings from their building set and place them on the grid on the game board at the same time. Special building rules apply to construction: The buildings may only be placed on meadows, while forest and mountain fields are taboo. Individual trees or stones can, however, be built over, but free tree fields bring additional points at the end of the round, so that overbuilding also means a loss of points. On the other hand, free stones that are not built over bring minus points, so building over them makes sense. The river on the game board may not be built over, but buildings may be placed on the bank (and the first building per round must even be adjacent to the river). All buildings that are built after the first one must adjoin at least one side of an already lying building, whereby they are also considered to be adjacent on opposite river banks. Once a building has been laid, it may not be moved and existing buildings may not be built over.

If a player cannot or does not want to place a building, he may pass and thereby loses one point. In addition, a player may decide to end the game for himself at any time after revealing a building card. As a result he does not lose any points. The game ends when all players declare the game over for them or when all building cards have been revealed. Depending on how the buildings were placed in the game, they score points at the end. There is one plus point for each visible tree (away from the forest) and one minus point for each visible stone. In addition, the players lose one point for each unoccupied field in the meadow.

After the round scoring, the game is scored: the winners and runners-up in a round also mark one or two progress points, which are counted over the 24 game rounds. In addition, depending on the round scenario, they receive stickers corresponding to their round position from the scenario envelope, which they permanently place on their game boards.

Expenses and reception

My City was developed by the German game author Reiner Knizia and was published in early 2020 by Kosmos-Spieleverlag in a German and English version and by IELLO in a French version.

In 2020 it was nominated together with the games Pictures and Nova Luna for the award as Game of the Year , Pictures received an award.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Official game rules for My City , Kosmos 2020.
  2. ↑ Versions of My City in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on May 15, 2020
  3. ↑ The 2020 winners can be found on the Spiel des Jahres eV website, July 20, 2020; accessed on June 28, 2020.

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