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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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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:	1220
Num Ratings:	431
Average Rating:	6.38
Standard Deviation:	1.28
Num Views:	29695
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.1
Fans:	0

Personal Comments:	193
Users Owning:	669
Users Wanting:	49
Users Trading:	22
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Total Plays:	598
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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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