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Designed By	Hagen Dorgathen Uwe Rosenberg
Art By	Claus Schobig
Published By	999 Games Kosmos (Franckh-Kosmos) Rio Grande Games Tilsit Show More »
Year Published	2000
# of Players:	2 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (18 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (6 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (8 voters) [poll]
Category	Ancient Card Game City Building
Mechanic	Action Point Allowance System Set Collection
Primary Name	Babel
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Expanded By	Show Expansions »
Families	Kosmos two-player series

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A multi-faceted card/board game of building temples in the ancient world. Players use "personnel" cards representing five different ancient civilizations to do various activities, including building six-tiered temples using a separate temple card deck.

Babel is part of the Kosmos two-player series.

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Awards

2002 Games Magazine Winner, Best Family Card Game.
2001 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.

Components:

1 gameboard
45 temple cards
60 tribe cards
2 stone figures
1 rulebook

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Rio Grande Babel RGG 185	23d 5h 29m	$ 19.99
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BABEL Rio Grande Board Card Games Game NEW	19d 9h 45m	$ 17.99
RIO185 Babel - Rio Grande Games	7d 12h 58m	$ 16.49
Babel Rio Grande Games	27d 4h 58m	$ 21.50
Babel Rio Grande Games	13d 17h 58m	$ 19.99

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8	Reviews A Girlfriend's Perspective on: Babel	2009-05-27	cerenycus	4
6	Reviews A game easier than the Rules- a Nutshell review/Rules Summary.	2009-03-30	maxo-texas	3
7	Reviews An enjoyable, medium-weight card game for two.	2009-03-04	ludopoly	2
0	General Travel board?	2009-02-25	MesterLars	3
3	General Babel Now Sold in Metropolitan Museum of Art	2009-02-22	klarkinhi...	1
3	Reviews Move 'em in threes, always in threes.	2009-02-12	mi_de	0
8	Reviews Nice Guys Finish Last	2008-10-11	voynix	3
1	Rules Using tribes' powers and temple level support	2008-09-24	Apocryphile	5
0	Rules Using a skill more than once costs only three cards?	2008-08-11	Mark_H	2
13	Reviews Babel Review	2008-06-17	greglios	6

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Just Another Babel Player Aid v1.0

This compact player's aid will "fit in the box" (laminated). Enjoy!

decumanusmaximus

2009-05-29

Babel Nederlands / Dutch

The Excel-version of Betty Egan translated into Dutch for my kids. All credits are for Betty, thnx!!! De Nederlandse vertaling van de Excel-versie van Betty Egan.

BigShuffle

2008-08-19

Babel Concise rulers refresher

This sheet is for people who have played the game before but need a concise rules refresher so they can jump straight back into playing. Print double sided, laminate and stick in the box!

Mark_H

2008-08-12

Babel_sp.pdf

Babel: rules in spanish

ostadar

2007-11-22

REFERENCE CARD IN SPANISH

Reference card. Tarjeta de referencia. Based on a previous work of Chris Conboy.

Speedro

2007-11-21

Universal Head BABEL Rules Summary & Reference Sheet

The Universal Head BABEL Rules Summary & Reference Sheet v2.1 (Jan09). Single-sided rules summary and reference sheet (2 on the page).

UniversalHead

2007-06-06

Babel Player Aid.pdf

2 Handy, full-color reference cards for quicker play.

anubis9

2007-03-31

ConciseRefSheet03 - Babel.ppt

Concise reference sheet for teaching the game and easy reference

hecose

2007-02-23

Formatted Rules.doc

Babel Formatted English Rules

habermanm

2007-02-13

Babel Card Tuckboxes.pdf

Babel Card Tuckboxes with artwork. They fit in the box insert, too.

hholzgrafe

2007-01-03

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263	100 Games Reference Sheets and Counting ...	2009-05-03
162	Proposed yucata.de games	2007-07-07
161	The Kosmos 2 Player Game List: By Average Rating	2006-05-28
161	1578 wives and girlfriends speak out...	2007-01-19
160	For Someone Who Doesn't Believe In God, I Sure Do Build a Lot of Churches	2007-02-28
158	Verbing game titles	2009-04-14
128	Oh, It's THAT Sort of Game - Games That Didn't Look Nasty At First	2007-05-09

	Statistics

User Rank:	395
Num Ratings:	1691
Average Rating:	6.79
Standard Deviation:	1.24
Num Views:	65484
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.4
Fans:	3

Personal Comments:	653
Users Owning:	2220
Users Wanting:	82
Users Trading:	84
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Total Plays:	2230
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Fancy version of rules summary sheet.	http://www.pacificcoast.net/~greg/Babel.jpg	2001-11-02
Review from Kulkmann's G@mebox	http://members.aol.com/kulkmann/babel.htm	2001-11-02
BdmL french review	http://jf.peyridieu.free.fr/babel.html	2002-03-12
French reviews, links, comments... (Ankou)	http://www.ankou.net/fiches.det.php3?id=164	2002-03-22
Review and photos	http://jesweb.free.fr/critique/babel/babel.html	2002-10-09
La Guilde French Review	http://xretaux.free.fr/Fiches/babel.html	2002-12-31
Review from LudiGaume (French)	http://www.ludigaume.be.tf/Jeux/Babel/babel_i.htm	2003-09-22
Game review at La Tana dei Goblin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2004-01-12
Review on LudiGaume (French)	http://www.ludigaume.net/Jeux/Babel/babel_i.htm	2004-05-02
Chinese rules from tagage.com	http://www.tagage.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&...	2004-07-23

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