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Game Brewer  |  SKU: CAR-D-EN

The Palaces of Carrara (Second Edition) (Deluxe Edition)

$172.95 CAD
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Description
Designer Michael Kiesling
Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher Game Brewer
Players 2-4
Playtime 60-90 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Accessories The Palaces of Carrara - Retro Pack

Note: Deluxe version includes Bigger Box, Insert, metal coins, printed decorations and thicker cardboards

In The Palaces of Carrara, players want to buy the marble from this famous region of Italy as cheaply as possible – but any reduction in price will benefit your opponents as well. Maybe you'll find it profitable to instead invest in the buildings created from this exclusive marble? Maybe it'll be more worthwhile to grab the expensive raw material when bigger buildings in town turn out to be not as lucrative as you'd hoped?

This second edition includes a revised set of rules, as well as a completely new advanced version that will include many new strategies and ways of scoring. This new advanced mode of play introduces statues, which will allow you to score your buildings in a multitude of new ways. So come and revisit this classic game by famous designers Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling.

Product description

You are the head of a noble family who has received orders from the Royal Palace to beautify 6 cities in the region. Utilizing valuable blocks of marble from the famed quarries in Carrara, you will construct buildings, add decorations, and place statues to fill the cities with marble wonders.

Features:
  • The deluxe game box
  • Metal Coins
  • Deluxe Insert Compartments
  • Game Board with double wheel (NEW!)
  • 36 Building Tiles
  • 6 Monument Tiles
  • 8 Improvement Tiles
  • 4 Player Boards
  • 1 Royal Court Board (NEW!)
  • 42 Wooden Building Blocks
  • 44 Wooden Statues (NEW!)
  • 32 Wooden Scoring Markers
  • 42 Wooden Decorations
  • 8 Wooden VP Markers
  • 1 Wooden Royal Visit Marker (NEW!)
  • 4 Player Screens
  • 1 Cloth Bag


Customer Reviews

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Christopher Parr
Deluxe Version Not Worth the Price.

The upgrade from cardboard coins to metal coins is a nice premium, but the rest of the components are all just cardboard tiles and painted wooden pieces - the basic standard in most games. The decorations do also have a printed-on design, but that hardly justifies such an over-inflated price.

The game comes with cardboard punch-outs to assemble into little storage boxes, but they’re not the greatest quality, and I had to glue them all after assembly to make sure they stayed assembled. They’re difficult to make fit in the box - too tight a fit. It would have been much easier to just include a custom insert to hold all the components.

Also, one complaint about the game board: there’s a plastic base for the wheel that you have to insert into a cutout on the board. That’s fine, but because of the way they designed the board to fold closed, you can’t just leave the plastic piece in place. You have to remove it every time, or else you can’t fold up the game board flat. Annoying that they didn’t think of this when designing how the board folds.

For the actual quality of the components and what you get, I’d say this game is only worth about half the cost (around $86). Even with the upgraded coins, I wouldn’t pay more than $95. Had I known, I would have just opted for the basic version and used my own upgraded metal coins. I’ve seen way better production quality and much better upgraded components in “deluxe” versions of games for a MUCH LOWER price.

Buyer beware!
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