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2012 Ranked #6,165

Briefcase

A deck-building business game where players acquire and activate companies to build economic empires. New companies add decision cards and lasting powers, so buying resources, hiring, and overcoming obstacles continually reshape what your deck can achieve.

Strategy Games Economic Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Hand Management Mechanism: Tableau Building

Players

2-4

Play time

45-60 min

Age

12+

Complexity

2.57/5

Rating

6.29

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Briefcase is a deck-building and resource management boardgame. In Briefcase, players build their own business empires by acquiring and activating various companies.

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Briefcase is a deck-building and resource management boardgame. In Briefcase, players build their own business empires by acquiring and activating various companies. Each company, once activated, provides the player with some benefits (which are called decisions cards) and a special ability for the rest of the game. Players start with identical decks of decision cards. Each time one player activates a company, he/she adds to his deck more decision cards. Decision cards give the players various possible actions (like buy/activate/hire/obstacles). The most important is the "buy" action, with which players can either buy a building or a resource from the market.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
45–60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Nikolas Sakaloglou Sotirios Tsantilas

Artists

1
Antonis Papantoniou

Publishers

1
Artipia Games

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