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Designed By	Alan R. Moon Aaron Weissblum
Art By	Jürgen Martens
Published By	Adlung-Spiele
Year Published	2002
# of Players:	2 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	8 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
Category	Card Game Renaissance
Mechanic	Set Collection
Primary Name	Canal Grande
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A card-game version of San Marco. Once again players are trying to gain influence in the districts of Venice.

One player divides a set of cards in two piles, the other chooses who gets which pile. Cards give influence in districts, actions or negative points.

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Contents

52 action cards
- 30 district cards: 5 each for Cannaregio, Santa Croce, San Polo, Dorsoduro, San Marco, Castello
- 3 spies
- 7 traitors
- 6 gondolas
- 6 doges
14 numbered cards: 4 1s, 5 each of 2s and 3s

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7	Reviews It's a lot like San Marco, but...	2009-08-23	thepackrat	3
2	Sessions First Time - One Game Each	2009-07-14	da pyrate	1
0	Rules Rules online?	2009-05-22	Mozart78	0
0	Rules Shuffling? - trying to remember	2009-05-03	UnknownPa...	2
10	Reviews A Bit Dodgy	2007-03-04	ccarlet1	1
1	Sessions Gone-dolas	2007-03-01	ccarlet1	0
0	Rules Gondola Question	2007-02-20	ccarlet1	5
0	Rules Canal Grande Standard Rules - available for download?	2005-09-02	Sheylon	2
0	General Rule question	2005-01-29	bigcheese	2
1	Sessions They don’t have the decency of letting me win!	2005-01-05	ValJor	0

	Recommendations

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Take it Easy!	Schnäppchen Jagd	Igel Ärgern	Hattrick
Where's Bob's Hat?	Freight Train	Drunter und Drüber	Verräter

Weak Recommendations
Die Fugger	Die 1. Million	Bauernschlau	Kathai
Eselsrennen	Pompeji	Babel	Edel, Stein & Reich
Sushi Express	San Marco	Mamma Mia!	Caesar & Cleopatra
Medina	Web of Power	Capitol	Carolus Magnus

Very Weak Recommendations
Meuterer	Wyatt Earp	Taj Mahal

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Canal Grande - Reglas.jpg

Spanish rules (fit in box) - REGLAS en castellano (tamaño carta)

JESSONSO

2005-03-05

Canal Grande Ita.pdf

Rules in italian

the_spy

2005-02-14

CanalGrande_hu.doc

Hungarian rules (magyar játékszabály)

Adhemar

2005-01-18

canal-ref-box.pdf

Reference cards (in English). UPDATE 16 July 2009: fixed the card distribution.

kilgore

2003-08-20

Canal Grande - 4 players.doc

English translation of 4 player rules

pittc

2002-10-28

Canal Grande = Dutch Translation.doc

Dutch Translation

eklaver

2002-10-28

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Board Game Rank:	1212
Num Ratings:	432
Average Rating:	6.38
Standard Deviation:	1.28
Num Views:	29415
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.1
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Personal Comments:	193
Users Owning:	664
Users Wanting:	48
Users Trading:	22
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Review in Finnish at Lautapeliopas	http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/peliarvostelut/canal-g...	2009-07-30
Finnish rules at Lautapeliopas	http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/saannot/canal-grande-s...	2009-07-17
Dutch Review on www.spellenclub13.be	http://www.spellenclub13.be/recensies/Canal Grande...	2007-05-21
Rules in Finnish at Lautapelaaja.net	http://www.lautapelaaja.net/saannot/canalgrande.ht...	2005-03-19
Review in Finnish at Lautapelaaja.net	http://www.lautapelaaja.net/arvostelut/canalgrande...	2005-03-19
Bruno Faidutti's ideal game library	http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=ludothequ...	2004-10-27
Game review at La Tana dei Goblin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2004-03-24
French review on JeuxADeux.com	http://www.jeuxadeux.com/jeux/canalgrande.php	2004-03-24
Le site perso de Ludo le gars (français)	http://lgimet.free.fr/CanalGrande.htm	2003-01-20
French review (and French rules for 4 players) on Jeux2Rody.com	http://www.jeux2rody.com/jeux/canalgrande.html	2003-01-15

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