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Blue Moon City

Players: 2 – 4 players | Game Duration 30 – 50 mins | Min. Age 14+ | Game complexity: LOW Genre: City Building, Fantasy Solo game mode: No | Co-op: No | Online Version: No

What is Blue Moon City about?

Blue Moon City – the board game – picks up where the two-player game, (Blue Moon), ended: the reconstruction of the destroyed city of Blue Moon. The board, illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel as well as many well-known American fantasy artists, consists of 21 large building tiles, which show building plans on one side and the buildings in their reconstructed glory on the other. As in the 2-player game, the game includes 3 large molded plastic dragons.

At the start of the game, the board tiles all show their building plan sides. The object of the game is to use cards featuring the races of Blue Moon to help rebuild the city and, at the end, put the large Crystal of the Obelisk in the middle of the city back together. Whenever a building is completely rebuilt, its tile is turned back over to its rebuilt side. The players who helped with a building get crystals and dragon favors, which can be traded in for crystals at certain times.

The player who first manages to add the required number of markers by paying crystals to the Obelisk wins the game. (four markers in a 4-player game, five markers in a 3-player game, and six markers in a 2-player game)

There are two mini-expansions for this game (Blue Moon City: Expansion Tile Sets 1 & 2), each consisting of two tiles that can be added to the main game either separately or combined. The first mini-expansion was included with the Der Knizia Almanach. The second mini-expansion was included in the 6/06 issue of Spielbox.

Rules changes
Original Knizia design–after dragon scales score, ALL players discard scales. This rule was modified by the publisher. [citation needed]
In original printings such as my Kosmos and FFG for 4-3-2 players the game uses 15-12-9 dragon scales. In later edtions new publisher CMON changed this to 12-9-7 scales.

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Awards Won by Blue Moon City

2007 Golden Geek Best Gamer’s Board Game Nominee
2007 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
2007 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee
2006 Spiel des Jahres Nominee
2006 Meeples’ Choice Award
2006 International Gamers Awards – General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
2006 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee

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