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Year Published
1999
# of Players:
3 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5 players
Recommended with 4, 5 players
(35 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
(9 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(18 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Chinatown
Alternate Names
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

This is a negotiation game in the truest sense of the word. In it, players acquire ownership of sections of city blocks then place tiles, representing businesses, onto the block-sections. At the end of each turn, each tile you've laid gives you some sort of payout, but completed businesses (formed of three to six connected tiles of the same type) pay quite a bit better. All these resources are dealt to the players randomly, however, so players must trade to get matching businesses and adjacent locations.

This game is #2 in the Alea big box series.

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1 Chinatown Business Tracker
Player aid to help calculate income by tracking business sizes.
2009-10-20
4 Chinatown income chart
This is a chart you can use with the game to track your total income. HOW TO USE: Place on the table and when you open a business, place a marker on the income for that business. (example: open a 2-tile photo, place a circle on the 2 and photo grid= 20k). This chart makes it easy to use when figuring out how much income you earned at the end of that round.
2009-09-30
4 Reglas español de Chinatown (ALEA)
Versión española del reglamento de Chinatown de Alea. Traducidas desde la versión francesa.
2009-06-20
1 Teaching aid for Chinatown - in Hebrew
המערך אינו הסבר ממצה של חוקי המשחק אלא אמצעי עזר לשחקן המסביר את חוקי המשחק לשחקנים חדשים
2009-04-26
4 Bonus Cards for New Edition
Bonus Cards in the new Z-Man style, in pdf for easy printing at home. 4 sheet pdf, sheets 1&2 are A4 sized, while 3&4 are Letter sized.
2009-04-12
3 Russian rules Chinatown
Правила игры Chinatown на русском языке
2009-03-22
5 Chinatown -- Alea Official Variants by chaosbreaker
Alea variants that were removed in the new Filosofia edition are here for play.
2009-02-17
1 Chinatown: carte riassuntive in ita
Chinatown Filosofia edition - carte riassuntive in italiano x5
2009-01-07
0 Chinatown: regolamento in ita
Chinatown Filosofia Editions - Rules in Italian with original layout.
2009-01-05
1 Chinatown Magyar szabály (új kiadás)
Hungarian translation of the rules (new edition)
2008-08-17
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 149
Num Ratings: 1970
Average Rating: 7.33
Standard Deviation: 1.28
Num Views: 108025
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Avg. Game Weight: 2.4 moreinfo
Fans: 23
Personal Comments: 788
Users Owning: 2160
Users Wanting: 318
Users Trading: 43
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 1
Price History: View
Total Plays: 2817
Plays This Month: 97
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