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Alea big box series

alea was started as a new label within Ravensburger in 1999. Each of their games in a particular sized box is numbered in order of publication, yielding their big box series, the Alea medium box series and the Alea small box series. The alea versions of the games were produced in German. Some of the series were re-printed by Rio Grande Games in English versions of the boxes. Chinatown and Adel Verpflichtet were not.

  • The English version of Mammoth Hunters, while having a similar box art style as the others in the series, does not actually have a number 8 printed on the box.
  • The Swedish/Finnish edition of Puerto Rico was renumbered #1 by the publisher, and the separator between the author and game name was dropped.
  • Different games of the series are published in Dutch:

The "big box" games (with their ranks on BGG as of Jan 18, 2010) are:

  1. Ra (28)
  2. Chinatown (144)
  3. Tadsch Mahal (Taj Mahal) (54)
  4. Die Fürsten von Florenz (The Princes of Florence) (17)
  5. Adel Verpflichtet (Hoity Toity) (496)
  6. Die Händler von Genua (The Traders of Genoa) (88)
  7. Puerto Rico (2)
  8. Eiszeit (Mammoth Hunters) (1311)
  9. Fifth Avenue (1435)
  10. Um Ru(h)m und Ehre (Rum & Pirates) (818)
  11. Notre Dame (68)
  12. Im Jahr des Drachen (In the Year of the Dragon) (66)
  13. Macao (650, with 196 ratings)













The first 7 games in the Alea big box series were highly praised on BGG, and are often given as examples of gamers games. All but one, Adel Verpflichtet, rank in the top 150 games on BGG as of Jan 18, 2010. The following three games–Eiszeit, Fifth Avenue, Um Ru(h)m und Ehre–have remained substantially lower ranked. Two of the more recent games, Notre Dame and Im Jahr des Drachen, could be considered a return to form, as both are rated in the top 70 as of Jan 18, 2010 with Macao rising in ranking.














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