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Star Reporter

A journalism race game has reporters travel by car, train, and plane to deliver news stories and capture breaking headlines. Securing a final Scoop ends the game, and the reporter with the most points wins.

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Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.8/5

Rating

6.17

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

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?

Players act as reporters for the newspapers published in "Urbania". Each player attempts to bring in as much news as possible and to be 'on the spot' when a breaking 'Headline' story or 'Scoop' shows up.

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Players act as reporters for the newspapers published in "Urbania". Each player attempts to bring in as much news as possible and to be 'on the spot' when a breaking 'Headline' story or 'Scoop' shows up. The board is broken down into different modes of transportation: car, train, and plane. Each player roll dice and moves to a city that matches one of his News cards to score the news story and gain points... each story is worth from 10 to 25 points. Whenever double six is rolled on the dice, a Headline card (50 points) is drawn, which goes to the player who gets to the city first. Once four Headline cards have been 'captured', the next card flipped is a Scoop (100 points). When the Scoop is delivered, the game ends and the player with the most points wins.

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2–5
Play time
60 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.8/5
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Publishers

2
Editrice Giochi Parker Brothers

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