allboardgames.com
Cornwall box art
2015 Ranked #7,051

Cornwall

A tile-laying area game in which players expand landscapes, place pawns, earn money, and retrieve workers from the pub. Completing an area sends its workers away, creating tension between growing claims and keeping pawns available.

Area Majority / Influence Enclosure Region: Cornwall (England)

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

2.18/5

Rating

6.48

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

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

See all 5 specifications

How it plays

How does it play?

In Cornwall, players try to enlarge the landscape by adding tiles to it and placing pawns on these tiles. By doing so, they earn money, which is desperately needed to bring their pawns back from the pub!

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Read the full game description

In Cornwall, players try to enlarge the landscape by adding tiles to it and placing pawns on these tiles. By doing so, they earn money, which is desperately needed to bring their pawns back from the pub! Since all pawns move to the pub to celebrate the end of the workday once an area is complete, it becomes tricky to have enough pawns available to conquer new areas. You can leave pawns on an area in order to continue to increase the size of it, but then the area might become attractive for other players, too, with them joining you — or possibly even taking it over for themselves...

Browse all classifications

Shopping

Where to buy

No verified retailer offers are available yet. The references below may still help you continue your search.

Unverified shopping references

Editions

Language and publisher variants currently recorded in the catalog.

Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
No editions imported yet.

Player resources

Rulebooks, player aids, FAQs, and solo resources.

No files imported yet.

Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
30 min
Age
8+
Complexity
2.2/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Johannes Schmidauer-König

Artists

2
Irene Bressel Anne Pätzke

Publishers

1
Schmidt Spiele

Linked items

No published linked games yet.