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Fun City Game box art
1987 Ranked #19,070

Fun City Game

This city race game has players use movement cards, dice, and shortcuts to reach timed locations and collect points. A shifting clock closes opportunities, so the most valuable destinations demand the quickest routes.

Real-time Roll / Spin and Move

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.23/5

Rating

5.71

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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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 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Players compete to race all over the board to locations like the Bowl-A-Gnome and the Super Duper Market and collect points. Use special movement cards, dice rolls, the bus, taxi, or even shortcuts through stores to get there first and claim your reward!

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Players compete to race all over the board to locations like the Bowl-A-Gnome and the Super Duper Market and collect points. Use special movement cards, dice rolls, the bus, taxi, or even shortcuts through stores to get there first and claim your reward! Just make sure that you get there before it closes (as indicated on the super-snazzy 3D bank clock!), or you're out of time, and out of luck! Each player has a hand of 3 Crazy Cards to modify their movement and combines them with their dice roll to move along any number of paths through the city streets, in an effort to reach one of the 4 Fun City Cards active at any one point in time. Each turn, the bank clock advances by either 10 or 20 minutes, and occasionally the SLOG (Somebody's Little Old Grandmother) will pop up, allowing the first player who escorts her between the Super Duper Market and the Library to claim any of the Fun City Cards available. Each of the Fun City Cards is only available during a set timeframe, and the smaller the timeframe the more valuable it is. When the clock reaches 5:00, players tally the Fun City Cards they've collected to determine the winner.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
60 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.2/5
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Credits

Designers

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(Uncredited)

Artists

1
Jack Burton Davis

Publishers

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Parker Brothers

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