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2023 Ranked #1,552

Welcome To…: Collector's Edition

One deck, an entire suburb of possibilities. Draw the plans, number the streets, and return night after night to neighborhoods that refuse to be built the same way twice.

Family Games City Building Paper-and-Pencil Simultaneous Action Selection Solo / Solitaire Game

Players

1-6

Play time

25 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2.09/5

Rating

8.29

Easier to teach Low interaction Light strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.3/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.8/5

High replayability

Interaction 2.8/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 4.9/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.2/5

Light strategy

Player control 3.9/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 5 min
Teach time About 10 min
Recommended edition Welcome To…: Collector's Edition – Blue Cocker Games English Collector edition (2023)
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How it plays

How does it play?

Build a 1950s neighborhood from simultaneous card choices, then explore a reusable collector box of classic maps and thematic remixes.

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Welcome To...: Collector's Edition gathers the original flip-and-write city builder and its thematic neighborhood system in a reusable dry-erase production. Every round, three construction cards are paired with three effects. All players simultaneously choose one pair, write its house number into a valid ascending street, and use the associated action. Surveyors divide streets with fences, landscapers grow parks, pool makers reward the right addresses, real-estate agents improve estate values, and temporary workers bend the numbering rules. City plans race the table toward shared objectives, while mistakes and missed opportunities can force permit refusals and bring the game to an early close. Because everyone acts from the same options at the same time, a table of six plays in essentially the same compact window as a solo session. The collector box replaces paper sheets with thirty-six double-sided dry-erase boards, six markers and erasers, and organized storage. It includes the familiar classic neighborhood plus seven thematic map families, refreshed rules, thirty-five additional cards, a revised solo opponent, Roswell, Share the Dream, Quack, and the previously released seasonal, atomic, zombie, and ice-cream variants. Six artists also reinterpret the classic sheet. Each map keeps the central tension of fitting numbers into streets while changing what players value, making this a broad anthology rather than only a deluxe copy of the base game.

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Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Welcome To…: Collector's Edition – Blue Cocker Games English Collector edition (2023) 2023 English Blue Cocker Games / EU

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Play and group

Players
1–6
Play time
25 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.1/5
App
None app Source
Player elimination
No Source

Practicalities

Setup time
About 5 min Source
Teach time
About 10 min Source
Teardown time
About 5 min Source

Campaign and continuity

Group continuity
Flexible Source
Resettable
Fully Resettable Source
Save system
No save system; a neighborhood is designed and scored in one 25-minute sitting. Source
Consumable components
The included neighborhood sheets are dry erase and reusable; the markers will eventually need replacement. Source

Edition and product

Optional extras
Everyone resolves the same card choices simultaneously. The collector box adds seven map families, three previously hard-to-find variants, 35 cards, six artist interpretations of the classic sheet, and a revised solo opponent. Source
Recommended edition
Welcome To…: Collector's Edition – Blue Cocker Games English Collector edition (2023) Source
Language
English
Region
EU
Availability
Current
Edition type
Deluxe Source
Current edition
Yes Source
Box dimensions
20.5 × 20.5 × 6.0 cm Source
Consumable components
Dry Erase Markers Are Replaceable; Sheets And Erasers Are Reusable. Source
Compatibility
English Collector Edition, Barcode 3770006370243; A Complete Standalone Reimplementation Of The Original Game And Its Thematic Neighborhood Packs. Source
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Alexis Allard Benoit Turpin

Artists

4
Christine Alcouffe Maud Chalmel Vincent Dutrait Ryan Goldsberry

Publishers

1
Blue Cocker Games

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