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Designed By	Hagen Dorgathen Uwe Rosenberg
Art By	Claus Schobig
Published By	999 Games Kosmos Rio Grande Games Tilsit
Year Published	2000
# of Players:	2 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (19 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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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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	9d 3h 25m
	12d 15h 50m
	15d 11h 21m
	25d 9h 22m
	1d 3h 20m
	2d 9h 47m
	12h 40m
	26d 2h 3m
	25d 10h 11m
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0	Rules pictures of tribes on board	2009-11-09	fmoros	2
0	Rules stone and skills	2009-10-31	fmoros	4
11	Reviews Babel - Why get it, why leave it and who to play this with	2009-10-20	WebKoala	1
2	Rules Game End Clarification	2009-08-27	Thomo	2
12	Reviews A Girlfriend's Perspective on: Babel	2009-05-27	cerenycus	4
7	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

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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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274	100 Games Reference Sheets and Counting ...	2009-05-03
181	Proposed yucata.de games	2007-07-07
176	The Kosmos 2 Player Game List: By Average Rating	2006-05-28
165	1578 wives and girlfriends speak out...	2007-01-19
163	For Someone Who Doesn't Believe In God, I Sure Do Build a Lot of Churches	2007-02-28
159	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

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Board Game Rank:	426
Num Ratings:	1801
Average Rating:	6.77
Standard Deviation:	1.25
Num Views:	72338
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.4
Fans:	3

Personal Comments:	678
Users Owning:	2357
Users Wanting:	72
Users Trading:	94
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Dutch review of Babel on www.de-spellenhoek.nl	http://www.de-spellenhoek.nl/recensies/b/babel/bab...	2009-09-03
Babel at Rio Grande Games	http://www.riograndegames.com/games.html?id=29	2009-07-20
German Review on AEIOU.DE	http://www.aeiou.de/avs/bericht.php?nummer=3	2008-12-18
Rio Grande Games rules	http://www.riograndegames.com/uploads/Game/Game_29...	2008-10-23
Eine deutsche Spielrezension zu Babel gibt es auf brettspiele-report.de	http://www.brettspiele-report.de/babel/	2008-04-19
Dutch review on www. spellenclub13.be	http://www.spellenclub13.be/recensies/Babel.htm	2007-05-21
GameNight Review	http://www.gamenight.com/html/Games/babel.htm	2006-09-05
Greg's rules summary at his Wood Cubes & Cardboard site	http://pacificcoast.net/~greg/Babel.jpg	2006-01-19
Byoskop - Fiche de la version française	http://www.byoskop.net/index.php?ind=reviews&op=en...	2005-05-31
Chinese rules from tagage.com	http://www.tagage.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&...	2004-07-23

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