Paris: La Cité De La Lumière

Should this hit the table?

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Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but limited emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.1

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but limited emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

Paris: La Cité de la Lumière has a high replayability score due to its strong variability in the gameboard, expansions available, strategic depth, scalability, and moderate easiness to learn. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with the potential for players to discover new tactics and strategies. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing the replay value. The game also scales well with different player counts, ensuring an enjoyable experience regardless of group size.

Luck profile

Paris: La Cité de la Lumière has a moderate level of luck involved in the game. Random elements such as dice rolls or card draws have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. However, players have substantial ability to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

Paris is a two-player board game by José Antonio Abascal infused with Parisian aesthetics by the boardgame’s artist Oriol Hernández. The game is set in late 19th century Paris during the 1889 “Exposition Universelle,” or world’s fair, when public electricity was a hot topic. Electricity spread throughout the city, creating today’s beautiful nocturnal Parisian streets and coining Paris’s nickname “La Cité de la Lumiére”, the city of lights. The most well-lit buildings are admired more highly by passers-by. In the first phase, players can either place tiles or grow their reserve of buildings. The cobblestone tiles are divided into 4 random spaces (their color, their opponents’ color, a streetlight or a mixed-color space where either player can build). Then, in the second phase, players build on top of their color or the mixed spaces, in effort to position their buildings as close to as many streetlights as possible. More streetlights solicit more adoration and points. The player with the best lit buildings steals the hearts of Parisian pedestrians and wins the game. —description from the publisher

Mechanism

5

Action Drafting Area Majority / Influence Grid Coverage Layering Open Drafting

Family

6

Cities: Paris (France) Components: Game Box Used In Play Components: Polyominoes Country: France Organizations: Board Games Association ofâ?¦ Players: Two Player Only Games

Type

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Abstract

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