Ginkgopolis

2212: Ginkgo Biloba, the oldest and strongest tree in the world, has become the symbol of a new method for building cities in symbiosis with nature. Humans have exhausted the resources that the Earth offered them, and humanity must now develop cities that maintain a delicate balance between resource production and consumption. Habitable space is scarce, however, and mankind must now face the challenge of building ever upwards. To develop this new type of city, you will gather a team of experts around you, and try to become the best urban planner for Ginkgopolis.

In Ginkgopolis, the city tiles come in three colors: yellow, which provides victory points; red, which provides resources; and blue, which provides new city tiles. Some tiles start in play, and they’re surrounded by letter markers that show where new tiles can be placed.

On a turn, each player chooses a card from his hand simultaneously. Players reveal these cards, adding new tiles to the border of the city in the appropriate location or placing tiles on top of existing tiles. Each card in your hand that you don’t play is passed on to your left-hand neighbor, so keep in mind how your play might set up theirs!

When you add a new tile to the city, you take a ”power” card of the same color, and these cards provide you additional abilities during the game, allowing you to scale up your building and point-scoring efforts.

AWARDS & HONORS:
2013 Tric Trac Finalist.
2013 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee.
2012 Meeples’ Choice Nominee.
2012 Jogo do Ano Nominee.

COMPONENTS:
Cardboard:
60 Building tiles (49x49mm): 20 tiles of each color (blue, red, yellow), numbered 1-20 (tiles 1-3 have yellow backs, the rest have blue backs)
12 Urbanization tokens (34mm dia.), A-L
10 New Hand tokens (20mm dia.)
68 Success tokens (22x18mm Ginkgo leaves; 24x value 1; 12x value 3; 12x value 5; 20x value 10)

Cardstock:
5 Player Screens (30x10cm, with player aid; in player colors - green, orange, pink, black, natural wood)
100 Cards (59x91mm):
12 Urbanization cards (A - L)
60 Building cards (20 each Building color, numbered 1-20)
27 Character cards (6 yellow 1-6; 9 blue 1-6 plus 3 unnumbered; 11 red 1-6 plus 5 red numbered)
1 First Player card

Wood:
125 wooden resources (10x10mm hexes; 25 per player color - green, orange, pink, black, natural wood)
15 Construction Site pawns (disks 15mm dia.x 20mm; gray)

1 Rulebook (8 p.).

Card Sleeves:
European Sleeves (59 x 92mm) for 100 cards

1-5

681706712000

Z-Mann Games

45

2012

13+

Tile Placement

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2018-06-21 11:57:26