And as a cherry on top, the buildings are drafted from a face-down pile, with only 8 visible at a time. Once the dimensions of the grid are either 5×4 or 4×5, the city center is defined and players can only fill out gaps until the 20 th bulding is built and the 4×5/5×4 grid is complete. The game revolves around resource management, collecting resources and using this to build buildings that are played into the joint 5×4 or 4×5 tableau in the centre of the table. Still a perfectly good experience, but no-longer the game that I was enjoying when I first sat down at the table. We are keen to further develop the use of Understanding Glasgow data through the Glasgow Game and invite organisations with an issue that could be explored through the game to p lease contact us.

However it is always the turn of the player furthest behind on the ring, so skipping a long way ahead often gives your opponent several goes in a row as they catch up to you. For some reason the game comes with enough wooden brick, iron, and gold tokens to be set on both boards, but that just creates a fiddly mess. The rest of the game simply comprises of cardboard action spaces and buildings, which all have a pleasant feel and decent, if forgettable, art on them. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.But if I don’t build that tenement then perhaps they will, then they would get loads of points and trigger their factories themselves AND still be able to build that park. A variable setup and, at least in the beginning of the game, an undefined placement grid promise a lot of replay value. As soon as the sixteenth building is erected, the game ends and players score points for what they built.

Overall Glasgow is a game which I greatly enjoyed my time with, however the power of certain building combos leads to a certain play-style being dominant over our games. On being told the ‘Sound-Off subject’, you have 30 seconds to mention as many of the six key words printed on the card. If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. We try and get a game in every night, but with two working parents and 5 small children, there is not always time for that. The ‘Glasgow Game’ has been developed in collaboration with the International Futures Forum (IFF) and is a version of their World Game , created by Tony Hodgson.Every other building type rewards you in victory points, though most have requirements such as being built in certain spots, having certain neighbours, or you having the correct resources at the end of the game.

That being said, it’s a fun, tight, tense little 30 minute romp that I can see coming out regularly on evenings when we don’t have time for anything else.Some figures have two random building plans at them, and if you visit one with the right resources, you can pay them, then build something. The contracts and architect tiles are laid out in a circle, this smacks a little of Patchwork in the way it looks. You can approach the game from several ways too - building factories early can get you some guaranteed income, but factories themselves are awful for points. Sometimes our opinions differ, so Amy will be posting reviews every Tuesday and Fi will post on Thursdays. It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced before and for that reason alone I think it’s worth going.