Downtown (1996)

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Designer	Bernhard Weber
Artist	Doris Matthäus
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Year Published	1996
# of Players	3 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
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Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (1 voter) [poll]
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Category	City Building Negotiation
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Primary Name	Downtown
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Taking a fairly common theme, this game is about building three types of neighborhoods in a developing city. Each turn one or two blocks will get zoned, based on the players' votes. Once all four properties in a block have been bought and the block has been zoned, its base score is the number of completed blocks adjoining it. However, there are serious multipliers (positive and negative) for locating certain types of developments next to each other.

1st Place 1996 Hippodice Spieleautorenwettbewerb (as Boomtown).

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Traduction française illustrée par François Haffner

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2002-08-27

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Board Game Rank:	3158
Num Ratings:	118
Average Rating:	6.34
Standard Deviation:	0.98
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Player aids (German, pdf) - attila products	http://www.attila-products.de/modules.php?name=Dow...	2012-05-16
German review - spiel-des-jahres.com	http://www.spiel-des-jahres.com/rezensionen/downto...	2012-05-16
German review - FAIRspielt	http://www.fairspielt.de/Spiele/downtown.php	2012-05-16
German review - Spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2012-05-16
Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/711.pdf	2011-11-19
Dutch rules on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=711&zoekcri...	2011-11-19
Critique et règle en français	http://jeuxsoc.free.fr/d/downt.htm	2002-01-28
Rules in HTML (Game Cabinet)	http://gamecabinet.com/rules/Downtown.html	2001-11-21