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Designed By	Mario Papini
Art By	Ambrogio Lorenzetti Ombretta Bernardi
Published By	Quined Games Z-Man Games ZuGames
Year Published	2005
# of Players:	2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5 players Recommended with 4, 5 players (3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (2 voters) [poll]
Category	Economic Medieval
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding Hand Management
Primary Name	Siena
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	Description Edit \| History

From the ZuGames website:

In the year 1338 the Siena’s Town Council charged the famous artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti to paint a fresco showing the town and its commerce. You will play the game above the painting that he made. You will start as Peasants, sowing the ground and selling your crop along the Via Francigena. If you will save enough florins you will be more comfortably off, trading in cloth and spices throughout Tuscany. But your dream is bigger: to enter the Council of the Nine, the town’s government. Therefore you will have to change into Bankers and use your money to obtain the Senesi’s consent: will you finance the artists of that time or contribute towards the construction of the new Torre del Mangia? Be careful, the florins that you have saved could not be enough! Behind every corner of the town other players’ pitfalls hide themselves: beggars, thieves, pretty women inside the inn...
Be prepared for a unique game experience.

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Awards

2005 Lucca Games Best of Show (Italy), Winner, Best Original Game

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15	Sessions Social climbing in the 14th Century	2009-09-30	Zirkvande...	2
42	Reviews A flawed masterpiece?	2009-06-03	Zirkvande...	6
15	General Will new rule set get more people to play the game?	2009-05-20	Zirkvande...	2
0	Rules End of initial auction	2009-04-23	JonBen	2
0	Rules Reshuffling the Fato deck	2009-04-23	JonBen	2
0	General Stagnation in the endgame--advice please?	2009-04-10	ellephai	2
0	Rules The journey of the Merchants to Florence.	2009-04-07	barbate	1
0	General Two key things we missed in our first play	2009-01-03	smilingra	0
0	General Kingmaker issue.	2008-07-11	the majes...	4
4	Sessions Take it easy; take a senesi	2008-04-15	Paul Mackie	2

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Siena rules in plain English

Complete, clear Siena rules presented in a new structure that follows the flow of the game and with more typical English usage. It draws on the work of Zman, Masdoro and discussions on BGG. (This is version 3, correcting an earlier mistake about the Opening Auction and adding some player aids.)

ZirkvandenBerg

2009-05-19

Siena Card Summary (text) V1.0

Text-only card summary that is indexed by the top values of each card. Two copies of the summary are on one printed page. If two numbers are listed for the amount of cards in the game, the first number is the number of copies of the specific card and the second number is the total number of that kind of card in the game.

smilingra

2008-12-27

Siena-HilfeV2.doc

German Player Aid +rewriten rules V2

digital_tilas

2007-02-11

siena_hu.pdf

Hungarian translation with pics, from the rewritten rules and the FAQ

Thaur

2006-09-09

Siena Comprehensive Player Aid v1.xls

Player Aid incorporating hopefully all the chrome rules and FAQ

PBrennan

2006-07-24

Siena_sp.doc

Traducción al español

compluto

2006-06-22

siena_graphic_overview.gif

Print onto Legal Paper (8.5"x14"). This is a graphical player aid that covers most of the rules of the game, with an emphasis on the areas of the board.

kvn299

2006-02-24

siena playeraid.xls

Siena playeraid

lexen

2006-01-01

S I E N A_hun_rule.doc

Hungarian translation rules

barbate

2005-12-22

siena rules.pdf

Unofficial rewriting of the rules by masdero - version 1.9

masdero

2005-11-29

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1169	That is illogical captain! - Logical inconsistencies in otherwise fine games	2007-01-10
286	BoardGameGeek Chain of Generosity	2007-09-19
255	It's a work of art! Games that are puzzles: cards with artwork that forms a single picture when combined	2008-09-15
252	I never thought it could happen to me...	2008-02-14
183	It's time for another game ... How well do you know your game rules? Go on, have a go. You know you want to.	2008-11-19
178	Essen 2005 Canonical List	2005-08-18
149	"Is Anyone Still Having Fun?" Games You've Quit Out of Boredom or Frustration	2009-02-09
146	The Worst Game in Your Collection	2005-11-02
145	a sucker for beautiful boards	2007-04-22
137	The Monster List of New and Upcoming Games, Sorted by Rating (Fall 2005 Edition)	2006-01-12

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Board Game Rank:	1594
Num Ratings:	409
Average Rating:	6.24
Standard Deviation:	1.83
Num Views:	42439
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Avg. Game Weight:	3.4
Fans:	7

Personal Comments:	257
Users Owning:	731
Users Wanting:	22
Users Trading:	61
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Total Plays:	435
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German review at H@ll9000 with link to rules summary	http://www.hall9000.de/rezi.pl?spiel=siena	2009-07-21
Official Card Summary (.doc)	http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/files/siena/Si...	2009-02-25
Official Rules (English) (.doc)	http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/files/siena/Si...	2009-02-25
Dutch Review on www.spellenclub13.be	http://www.spellenclub13.be/recensies/Siena.htm	2007-05-22
Review on www.GoodGameGuide.de (in German)	http://www.superfred.de/siena.html	2006-02-15
Optimized material, short rules (german)	http://spielepizza.de/siena-kurz	2005-12-12
Review in Italian at Giochidatavolo.net	http://www.giochidatavolo.net/gdt/modules.php?name...	2005-11-23
Siena on ZMan games site	http://www.zmangames.com/products/siena/siena.htm	2005-10-18
Review di Siena sulla Tana dei Goblin (Italian)	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2005-10-18
Preview by gamepack	http://www.gamepack.nl/gamepack/rec-sienapreveng.h...	2005-09-30

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