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Thurn & Taxis

by Rio Grande Games

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2-4 players
Ages 10 years and up
60 minutes
2006 German game of the year
Set includes 66 city cards, 30 bonus tiles, 4 summary cards and a rules booklet

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Item Weight: 1.5 Kg
Boxed-product Weight: 2.4 Kg
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Manufacturer recommended age: 10 months and up
Item model number: U00135
ASIN: B000IXS4SY

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In 1490, Kaiser Maximilian I awarded Franz von Taxis the contract to deliver mail between the Kaiser’s residences in Innsbruck and Brussels.He did such a good job, that postal services in the country continue to be connected with the name Thurn and Taxis. With the introduction of postal carriages in the middle of the 17th century, members of the family were raised to Count status and given the hereditary title of Postmaster General. The game begins at this point in history.Can you emulate the achievements of this family and build a successful postal network? Do you have the talent to connect the right cities to create an effective network and not lose sight of the need to acquire new carriages when they are needed? Plan your moves carefully and watch your opponents’ moves carefully, so you are prepared to respond to them.The game takes you back in time and gives you challenges that will bring you back to the game over and over.

Box Contains

1 game board

80 wooden houses(20 each in 4 colors) as post offices

4 principal firm cards

20 carriage cards (4 each of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 carriage)

66 city cards (3 each of 22 cities)

For building routes

30 bonus tiles (4 x 7 distance, 3 x 6 distance, 2 x 5 distance, 4 x all provinces, 4 x Baiern, 3 x Baden

3 x Württemberg/Hohenzollern

3 x Schweiz/Tyrol

3 x Böhmen/Salzburg

1 x Game end)

4 summary cards

1 game rules

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5.0 out of 5 stars THURN AND TAXIS - A family game that delivers!, 13 Jun 2009

By	EYE of NiGHT "EYE of NiGHT" (YORK, UK) - See all my reviews

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars

I rate Thurn & Taxis 8/10 on Boardgamegeek, where its average rating is over 7/10. T&T won the main Spiel des Jahres prize in 2006, the biggest honour in the boardgame industry. It is a solid family game, quick and easy to play, but you need some plotting and planning to win.

Thurn und Taxis is a famous family, that's one surname 'Thurn und Taxis'. They built a vast postal system across Europe, and that's what you do in the game. The board shows a lot of towns and cities linked up in old German provinces, and there's a deck of cards to match each location. You take cards from an open display, add to your postal route, and then cash it in to place your post-houses on the board. Each route you build must be correct according to the map, so if you can't add to it properly, it's bust and you have to scrap it and start a fresh route.

When you fill a province with your post-houses, you take scoring chits with Victory Points (VPs), which go down in value. So the first to fill one province gets say 3 VPs, the next player to complete that province gets 2 VPs and so on. You also get points for building long routes, and each time you build a longer route, your postal company gains more VPs. There are other bonuses and at the end, most VPs wins.

You have some helpers in the game, you can use anyone once each turn. These let you take an extra card, or play an extra card, or claim a route is longer than you laid, or you can clear the display and see 6 fresh cards if there's nothing you want.

There's a neat trick in the game too. When you place your post-houses, you can can put them all from one province in your route, or you can put one house in each province in your route. This is crucial to building your route. You can visit the same place twice, but this is a waste of your turn. You want to build fresh routes and hit new places, but do you zig-zag around getting lots of provinces, or do you run straight in one province? You have lots of choices in T&T, you need to plan ahead, but it's a simple game to play.

I really enjoy playing Thurn & Taxis. The components are excellent, wooden pieces, detailed graphics (each town is drawn historically accurate!). The game-play is quick and easy to learn, but you have choices to make and a race to win VPs. The game is not aggressive, you do not get attacked or eliminated. Kids can learn a bit of geography and history, and they can easily compete with parents. Thurn & Taxis is a good example of the modern eurogames from Germany. You will want to play it again, try different tactics, which makes it great value. Plus, there are two expansion sets that add to the game; T&T Power And Glory Thurn and Taxis: Power and Glory Expansion and T&T All Roads Lead To Rome Thurn and Taxis: All Roads Lead to Rome.

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