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Year Published
2001
# of Players:
3 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 3, 4 players
(18 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
10 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
(4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(5 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Medina
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Description Edit | History

This could have been the fifth title in the much-misnamed Reiner Knizia tile-laying trilogy, after Samurai, Tigris & Euphrates, Through the Desert, and Rheinländer. But it's not by Reiner Knizia...

Stefan Dorra has created a tense waiting game. Each turn you can place two pieces on the board, either augment an existing building or start a new one if the current building of that color is as finished as it will ever be. Each player will claim one building of each of the four colors by the end of the game, giving one point per wooden piece attached to said building. Plus, if you own the largest building of a particular color you get a little bonus based on the color you dominate in. Lastly, there are bonuses similar to the color-type for the player who most recently connected one of their buildings to the walls, which grow from the four corners of the city.

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0 Turn order analysis
Excel spreadsheet in support of my post on turn order analysis in Medina
2009-05-08
3 Reglamento en español
Traducción del reglamento de este magnifico juego.
2009-02-27
0 Plantilla de Puntuación
Una plantilla que nos facilitará el contar los puntos de cada jugador al final de la partida. Entran 12 en cada cara de un A4.
2009-02-27
4 Concise reference sheet by hecose
Concise reference sheet for teaching the game and easy reference
2007-12-29
0 2 Player Board Segments.zip
Complete 2-Player segmented board that preserves most of the artwork of the original Medina board
2007-08-12
0 2 Player Board.jpg
Complete 2-Player Board that preserves most of the artwork of the original Medina board
2007-08-12
2 reglas 2 jugadores.pdf
Reglas 2 jugadores Spanish
2007-05-10
7 MEDINA RULES.zip
A clearer set of ENGLISH rules for the wonderful City in the Desert game: Medina.
2007-04-15
1 Reglas 2 jugadores.jpg
2Player_Spanish
2007-01-21
1 Medina_2P_board_SPANISH.jpg
2P Board in Spanish
2007-01-21
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 239
Num Ratings: 1456
Average Rating: 7.13
Standard Deviation: 1.23
Num Views: 72709
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
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Avg. Game Weight: 2.9 moreinfo
Fans: 6
Personal Comments: 502
Users Owning: 1630
Users Wanting: 173
Users Trading: 43
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 1
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1393
Plays This Month: 11
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