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Chinatown
Masked Man style negotiation in Chinatown
Typical board at the end of a game (new Filosofia edition)
Completed Factory in China Town - QWG Edition 2008
Green develops a radio shop on Park Row
Chinatown in play.
Box front
I wanted a fancier tile-drawing bag for Chinatown, but finding Chinese-themed fabric proved difficult.  I finally settled on this lantern and bamboo themed fabric in lucky red, and lined it in red satin too.
Chinatown
4 player game

Chinatown (1999)

Players
3–5
Best: 5
Playing time
60–60 min
Age
12+
7.44
Average rating
12,541
Ratings
2.23/5
Weight
#387
BGG rank
Top 1,000
Alternate names:ไชน่าทาวน์ +1 more
Designer:Karsten Hartwig
Artist:Franz Vohwinkel, Mathieu Leyssenne
Publisher:alea +9 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 9, Luck 4, Interaction 9, Complexity 4.5, Theme 5
Strategy9.0
Luck4.0
Interaction9.0
Complexity4.5
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

EconomicNegotiationCity BuildingTile PlacementSet CollectionTradingEnclosureVictory Points as a ResourceIncomeInvestmentNegotiation

Overview

This is a negotiation game in the truest sense of the word. In it, players acquire ownership of sections of city blocks then place tiles, representing businesses, onto the block-sections. At the end of each turn, each tile you've laid gives you some sort of payout, but completed businesses (formed of three to six connected tiles of the same type) pay quite a bit better. All these resources are dealt to the players randomly, however, so players must trade to get matching businesses and adjacent locations.

This game is #2 in the Alea big box series.

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