Chinatown (1999)

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Board Game Rank: 225

Strategy Game Rank: 144

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Designer	Karsten Hartwig
Artist	Mathieu Leyssenne Franz Vohwinkel
Publisher	alea Competo / Marektoy Filosofia Editions Heidelberger Spieleverlag Quined White Goblin Games Z-Man Games Show More »
Year Published	1999
# of Players	3 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5 players Recommended with 4, 5 players (65 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (18 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (33 voters) [poll]
Honors	1999 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee 2008 Årets Spill Best Family Game Nominee
Subdomain	Family Games Strategy Games (50 voters) [vote]
Category	City Building Economic Negotiation
Mechanic	Set Collection Tile Placement Trading
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Family	Alea Big Box Asian Theme Filosofia Reprints
Primary Name	Chinatown
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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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Awards

2008 Nominee - Årets Familiespill (Family Game of the Year, Norway)
1999 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.

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First Nordic Edition

Publisher: Competo / Marektoy, Filosofia Editions

Artist: Mathieu Leyssenne

Year: 2008

Product Code: 8164

Size: 14.75 x 10.75 x 2.80 inches

1.35 pounds

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Z-man Version

Publisher: Z-Man Games

Artist: Mathieu Leyssenne

Year: 2008

Product Code: ZMG 7028

Size: 14.75 x 10.80 x 3.00 inches

3.32 pounds

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German second edition

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag

Artist: Mathieu Leyssenne

Year: 2008

Size: 14.75 x 10.80 x 3.00 inches

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Dutch version

Publisher: Quined White Goblin Games

Artist: Mathieu Leyssenne

Year: 2008

Size: 14.75 x 10.80 x 3.00 inches

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French version

Publisher: Filosofia Editions

Artist: Mathieu Leyssenne

Year: 2008

Size: 14.75 x 10.80 x 3.00 inches

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0	General Making the theme make sense: how is it that you get locations and businesses for free?	2011-01-10	cdunc123	7
2	Rules Forward Contracts?	2010-12-18	manymoodys	3

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Regras traduzidas para português (BR)

Rules translation to portuguese (based on the german version) - Regras traduzidas para português BR (baseado na versão em alemão) - Version 1.0

Romir

2011-06-05

Chinatown polish rules

Corrected some minor errors.

comma777

2011-04-21

Cartas de Referencia en Español.

Spanish translation from Lyle Schulz (Silverback) reference cards file. Traducción al Español de las cartas de referencia del archivo de Lyle Schulz (Silverback). (Revised)

Silvermain

2011-01-20

Chinatown Round Income Scoring

Microsoft Excel Workbook with multiple tabs to use to easily calculate income for each player after each round. This is version 1.0

pennincao

2010-03-22

Tuckbox for Building Lot Cards (Filosofia / Z-Man edition)

Here's a tuckbox I made to hold the building lot cards in the Filosofia / Z-Man edition of Chinatown. Tuckbox was created using the generator by Craig P Forbes at http://www.cpforbes.net/tuckbox/tuckbox.cgi

Turbo Pascal

2010-01-02

Tuckbox - Money / Reference (Z-Man / Filosofia edition)

Tuckbox for the 84 Money, First Player, and 5 Player Aid cards in the Z-Man / Filosofia edition of Chinatown.

ColtsFan76

2009-12-29

Tuckbox - Buildings (Z-Man / Filosofia edition)

Tuckbox for the 85 Buildings cards in the Z-Man / Filosofia edition of Chinatown.

ColtsFan76

2009-12-29

PlayerAid - Simplified and Deflated

Small update. Tweaked the payout chart to include box icons so it was more obviously different than the round chart. Nothing wrong with the original, just liked this one better.

Isamoor

2009-12-23

Chinatown Business Tracker

Player aid to help calculate income by tracking business sizes.

tatoolo

2009-10-20

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.

Striker511

2009-09-30

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Board Game Rank:	225
Strategy Game Rank:	144
Family Game Rank:	31
Num Ratings:	3256
Average Rating:	7.21
Standard Deviation:	1.27
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.4
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Personal Comments:	1147
Users Owning:	3435
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Users Trading:	92 [find trade matches]
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Chinese Rule on NetherWaters	http://blog.xuite.net/tacox0127/rx002/42259982	2012-02-17
German review - games we play	http://gamesweplay.de/chinatown.html	2011-07-16
German review - Cliquenabend	http://www.cliquenabend.de/spiele/652000-Chinatown...	2011-07-16
German review - spieletest.at	http://www.spieletest.at/spiel.php?ID=2154	2011-07-16
Polish review in GamesFantaic.pl	http://www.gamesfanatic.pl/2009/01/09/chinatown-za...	2011-03-17
Ressenya en català del joc a través del blog D'oca a oca	http://docaaoca.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/chinatown...	2011-01-16
Nederlandstalige review Chinatown	http://www.bloggen.be/speleninlille/archief.php?ID...	2010-11-12
Dutch user reviews on Bordspelmania.eu	http://www.bordspelmania.eu/spellen/detail/chinato...	2010-09-08
English Review on Drake's Flames	http://drakesflames.blogspot.com/2010/06/board-gam...	2010-06-17
German review at Michas Spielmitmir	http://www.michas-spielmitmir.de/spieletests.php?i...	2010-05-01