Crystal Palace

At Cristal Palace, each player represents a nation at the first Universal Exposition of 1851 held in London. In order to ensure that your homeland attracts the attention of the entire world, you will exhibit spectacular inventions and recruit the brightest and most influential minds of your time. You will move the threads everywhere to prepare the event in the best possible way. Everything could be very simple ... if your government had provided you with unlimited means. But the way things are, you will be constantly divided between modest investments and excessive loans.

Crystal Palace is a dice placement game in which the players themselves decide the values ​​of their dice at the start of each round. The higher this value, the better ... But it comes at a cost.

Throughout the game, the dice are placed in 8 different Action Locations vying for the best resources, patents and wits. In a world full of unusual inventions, you will rub shoulders with characters like Phileas Fogg, Levi Strauss and Charlotte Brontë and gadgets such as the thinking machine. the beer counter glass or the climate transformer.


Components:

    12 double-sided locating boards
    1 administration board
    5 double-sided player boards
    30 patent / prototype letters
    30 character cards
    15 participation sheets
    11 flyer tabs (4 blue, 4 green, and 3 violet)
    4 double-sided editorial tiles
    1 pocket watch marker
    45 research sheets (32 with green back and 13 with purple back)
    30 loan tokens (10 of each: -8, -9 and -10)
    62 pound banknotes (£ 32 32, £ 5 20, £ 10 10)
    1 round marker
    3 tickets
    5 chests
    25 wooden gears
    25 wooden energy tokens


Authors: Carsten Lauber