Venice is the new Egypt!
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While I'm sure that the number of games set in Venice is still quite small compared to the number of games set in Egypt, I predict that number will rise! Venice is the new Egypt! And unlike Egypt, which is just a movie set, Venice is a real place! Venice is a country in Italy with waterways instead of streets! Venice has gondolas and funny men in striped shirts to push them around!
Hooray for Venice, city of moisture!
Please add games to this list that are set in Venice! Hooray!
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It's that hot new game by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede! Set in Venice! Yay! Famous Environmentalists like Ted Danson have kept this game from being published in the United States because this game is all about destroying wetlands!
Destroying wetlands is bad, but Venice is good. So if wetlands must be destroyed to build a city like Venice, then I say move along little froggies!
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This game is also about building Venice with orange pillars. The orange pillars really clash with the rest of the color scheme, and in every picture of Venice I've seen, I can find no orange pillars at all. But it's in Venice, so who cares. Yay, Venice! Country of orange pillars!
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An awesome picture of an awesome city, presided over by the awesome Doge! You can tell he's the Doge because he's wearing an awesome hat.
This game really is about Venice even though it's called San Marco because San Marco is a country in Venice. Here are pictures to prove it.
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Venice again! Hooray for Venice!
Except this is a card game so there's no awesome map of Venice. So, boo!
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Board Game: Doge
[Average Rating:6.55 Overall Rank:1196]
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Look, it's Venice again! And this time it's a Colovini, so you know that the Venetian theme and the gameplay are inextricably linked in exactly the same way that Egypt and gameplay are linked in Knizia games like Rah, but better, because it's not Egypt.
And check out the Doge's hat. Did you ever seen an Egyptonese person wearing such an awesome hat? I think not!
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Here's another game set in Venice! (Yay!) And I don't know a thing about it. But it does have a map on the board, so that's awesome.
It also has boards that look like spreadsheets, and that's not as awesome. In fact, that's kind of boring. Where are the gondolas!?
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This game is based on Shakespeare's movie of the same name, in which Shylock, played by Charles Bronson, goes on a killing spree seeking revenge against those who picked on him because he was Jewish.
There's an awesome gondola chase scene.
There are also very awesome hats.
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Here is a quiz question:
Q: Is this game set in Venice?
(Hint #1: There's a Doge.)
(Hint #2: Awesome hat.)
A: Yes!
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United States
Greer
South Carolina
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There are no Doges here, nor are there hats, but there are pigeons and their poop. Oh, and a map, of course:
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Chris Bailey
United States
Broomfield
Colorado
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Here's one!
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Chris Bailey
United States
Broomfield
Colorado
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And of course Inkognito revolves around walking the streets of Venice during a carnival.
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Mike Young
United States
Sterling
Virginia
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And then in the 21st century when Venice goes to outer space they will...
What? Wait... Oh, never mind.
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oskari
Finland
Helsinki
corals... yummy!
I'm a blood-sucking fiend! Look at my outfit!
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A new two-player game from Hans im Glück.
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A. C.
Canada
Toronto Area
Ontario
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I am sure this is not a stretch. Of course we all remember Roger Moore as James Bond in MOONRAKER? Well there is no game that I know of based on that movie. But it did have Mr. Bond visit Venice for the requesite gondala / hovercraft chase scene. He also visits Venice in Casino Royale and From Russia with Love. And this game very likely contains some reference to one or more of these movies.
How many times has he been in Egypt? Only twice (The Spy who Loved Me, and very briefly in Diamonds are Forever).
So there you go.
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Rod Spade
United States
Elizabethtown
Pennsylvania
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Doge with awesome hat! Venice!
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Board Game: Casanova
[Average Rating:3.96 Unranked]
Mike Adams
United States
Brigham City
Utah
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I don't see any funny hats, but lots of canals and gondolas filled with ladies. And even better, this is from the game description:
Quote: Casanova has disguised himself with women's attire (a pin is inserted into one of ten pairs of women playing pieces - it can only be felt or seen from the underside of the playing pieces). It is the task of the players to secretly figure out, under which pair of women Casanova hides, to get him into the player's palazzo via a gondola, and finally to bribe the doge to make sure Casanova can escape into freedom.
Wow. That would never happen in Egypt.
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Jonathan Kift
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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More awesome hats, more masks, and the one in the middle is wearing head tinsel!
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Sebastian
Germany
Merzig
Saarland
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Well it doesn't play IN Venice, but you can play Venice (as fraction) IN the game
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Kjartan Kinch
Denmark
Copenhagen
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This one also includes Venice as one of a number of sides available to the players. Fight your ancient enemies the Milanese and Florentines, as well as the Pope, the Neapolitans, the Turks, the Austrians and the French.
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Kjartan Kinch
Denmark
Copenhagen
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As does this one. Fight your ancient enemies the Genovese as well as the Barcelonese, The Parisese, the Londonese and the Hamburgese. Ahem.
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Like his earlier movie, The Merchant of Venice, William R. Shakespeare wisely set the sequel, Othello, in Venice as well. (The full title of the movie is The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice.)
The Tragedy of Othello concerns a contest of wills between Othello (played by Patrick Stewart) and his lover, Iago, as they match wits over the board game pictured above. What was originally called "Reversi" in Shakespeare's day, was soon referred to as "Othello" in honor of the film. The reason he's called the "Moor" of Venice is that he owns a dock where all the merchants moor their sea-going vessels. He lives above the dock and all the action takes place in his dwelling.
No awesome hats or pigeons, sadly.
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Jason Wiebe
Canada
Edmonton
Alberta
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Ah yes the land of Venice... Where ships suddenly land in your backyard
(Waiter there's a ship in my soup...)
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Board Game: Rialto
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
Daniel Danzer
Germany
Stuttgart
southwest
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A tactical dice-rolling game about building bridges in Venice - that`s all info that there is in the wiki and no picture at all ???
Wolfgang Friebe (single owner) - take some pictures!!
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Arthur
United States
California
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Umm..really! I can explain! See, "Puerto Rico" is the codename for "Atlantis", and, it's a well-kept secret that Atlantis is in Venice! On land, no less!
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Philip Thomas
United Kingdom
London
London
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Venice featured here! Plus a guy in a hat on the box cover. Not quite as spectacular a hat as the Venetian standard I'm afraid.
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Posted Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:27 pm
Mandeville
Louisiana
Actually, its a city.
Edmonton
Alberta
Mesa AZ
Tatooine
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Venice
I think this game can be added as well to the list: "Xe Queo!", in fact, means "It's that!" in Venetian dialect. It has no other meaning and can be understood only by Venetian people. Alex Randolph (the designer) used to leave in Venice.