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2001 Ranked #2,312

Villa Paletti

Dexterity building game where architects stack and relocate columns to raise a precarious villa. Removing the wrong support can topple the structure, so every move must gain height without sacrificing balance.

Family Games Action / Dexterity Children's Game Pattern Building Physical Removal

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.16/5

Rating

6.42

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.8/5

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?

An architectural rush to the skies for 2 - 4 budding architects with a good head for heights from 8 years old.

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An architectural rush to the skies for 2 - 4 budding architects with a good head for heights from 8 years old. In the land where the Lemons bloom, there once lived a wise old sage, whose friends called him "Paletti" He only had one goal in life, to finish the wonderful castle in the sky that his grandfather had begun to build many years before, but which had been left unfinished when the ducats ran out. Paletti too had little money, but instead he had a marvelous plan. Why buy new columns when he could re-use the old ones that his Grandfather had built? All he needed to do was remove some of those holding up the first floor, of which there were far too many in any case, and rebuild them further up, so that they could support new floors, reaching up towards the skies! "Excellent, Paletti" shouted his friends, and they quickly started to work. Soon they had a marvelous building in front of them, the "Villa Paletti". Nowadays, no one knows what it was caused the collapse of the Vila Paletti, perhaps a puff of wind, or a slight earth tremor, but all the experts are united on one point, that Paletti, far ahead of his time, was the first to discover something whose full importance is only now starting to become clear to us, the Euro pallet! Re-implemented by: Palazzo Paletti Menara

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Play and group

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

Designers

1
Bill Payne

Artists

1
Victor Boden

Publishers

1
Zoch Verlag