Mall World (2004)

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Designer	Andrea Meyer
Artist	Stefan Balogh Sebastian Wagner
Publisher	BeWitched Spiele Rio Grande Games
Year Published	2004
# of Players	3 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	(Not best with any number) Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players (2 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	80 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (2 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Strategy Games (5 voters) [vote]
Category	Economic Territory Building
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding Hand Management Pattern Building Tile Placement
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Primary Name	Mall World
Alternate Names	Große Geschäfte Grosse Geschäfte
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From the publisher, Rio Grande Games:

Players compete in the building of Mall World, scheduled to be the largest indoor shopping mall in the world. In the planning of a mall this size, it is important to get the right shops in the right locations and the player best able to do this will win the game!

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Grosse Geschäfte

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German edition

Publisher: BeWitched Spiele

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Year: 2004

Size: 14.61 x 10.71 x 1.26 inches

2.20 pounds

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Mall World

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Rio Grande Games Edition

Publisher: Rio Grande Games

Artist: Stefan Balogh, Sebastian Wagner

Year: 2004

Product Code: 655132-002486

Size: 14.61 x 10.71 x 1.26 inches

2.26 pounds

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0	General A Good Game	2010-08-30	Christine...	0
0	Rules Early End Question	2010-08-29	Christine...	1
3	Sessions Mall World: Building an incredible mall for incredibly ugly consumers!	2010-07-25	gentlegia...	1
0	General Auctioning cards question	2010-07-24	gentlegia...	0
0	General Just a couple of dollars at the "dollar" store in Northtown Mall in Blaine, MN	2010-06-11	soiledshortz	1
1	General Like a cheaper Vegas Showdown???	2010-02-24	timrichter9	3
1	Sessions Mall World - Session Report	2006-01-18	gschloesser	0
0	Rules a few comments/questions	2005-10-23	ropearoni4	0
0	Variants any 2 player variant out there?	2005-08-24	ropearoni4	1
15	Reviews Review: Mall World	2005-08-08	SteveBl	1

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Revised English Rules by Christine Biancheria

This is a revision of the original rules. It does not change any rules of the game. It is merely an attempt to make the rules more understandable. I added new flavor text and a new start player rule, but otherwise, it is identical.

Christine Biancheria

2010-08-31

grossegeschafte_hu.pdf

Hungarian translation of the rules - a szabályok magyarul

Thaur

2005-07-15

Mall World Rules.doc

English rules in Word Format

BeyondMonopoly

2005-01-30

hints.pdf

FAQ and tactical hints by the designer

Andrea Meyer

2005-01-18

mall world.pdf

English translation in pdf format

arzman

2004-12-10

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corrected page 7 of the German rule

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2004-11-12

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Strategy Game Rank:	848
Num Ratings:	267
Average Rating:	5.66
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German review - Hall9000	http://www.hall9000.de/html/spiel/grosse_geschaeft...	2011-12-03
Game Paradise review of Mall World	http://www.gameparadisestore.com/wordpress/?p=487	2011-01-15
English Review on Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com/list/nights/g.html#gro...	2010-05-14
Review on BoardGameNews.Com	http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamene...	2010-02-24
Review on www.GoodGameGuide.de (in German)	http://www.superfred.de/grossegeschaefte.html	2005-03-22
Westpark Gamers review (in English)	http://www.westpark-gamers.de/Reviews/bericht138.h...	2004-12-31
Updated Capsule/Summary on Chris Farrell's weblog	http://homepage.mac.com/c_farrell/iblog/C209722158...	2004-12-27
Session/Capsule on Chris Farrell's Weblog	http://homepage.mac.com/c_farrell/iblog/C209722158...	2004-12-20