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Rating: 7.9 Very Good
Popularity:18
Difficulty:Easy
Year:2013
Players: 1-4 players
Playing time: 75 minutes
Age:13+

Official Site: Glass Road - Z-Man Games


Created by: Uwe Rosenberg, Dennis Lohausen

Published by: Cranio Creations, Feuerland Spiele, Filosofia Éditions

Alternate Names: De Glasstraat, Die Glasstraße, La Route du Verre, Szklany Szlak, グラスロード

Description:

Glass Road is a game that commemorates the 700-year-old tradition of glass-making in the Bavarian Forest. (Today the Glass Road is a route through the Bavarian Forest that takes visitors to many of the old glass houses and museums of that region).

You must skillfully manage your glass and brick production in order to build the right structures that help you to keep your business flowing. Cut the forest to keep the fires burning in the ovens, and spread and remove ponds, pits, and groves to supply yourself with the items you need. Fifteen specialists are there at your side to carry out your orders...

The game consists of four building periods. Each player has an identical set of fifteen specialist cards, and each specialist comes with two abilities. At the beginning of each building period, each player needs to choose a hand of five specialists.

If he then plays a specialist that no other player has remained in his hand, he may use both abilities of that card; if two or more players play the same specialist, each of them may use only one of the two abilities.

Exploiting the abilities of the specialists lets you collect resources, lay out new landscape tiles (e.g., ponds and pits), and build a variety of buildings. There are three types of buildings:

  • Processing buildings
  • Immediate buildings with a one-time effect
  • Buildings that provide bonus points at the end of the game for various accomplishments

Mastering the balance of knowing the best specialist card to play and being flexible about when you play it - together with assembling a clever combination of buildings - is the key to this game.

Prices:
Retail Price:$57
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Expansions:
Brettspiel Adventskalender 2015
Die Glasstraße: Die Adventskalendererweiterung
Die Glasstraße: Harlekin
Die Glasstraße: Oktoberfest
Awards:
Meeples' Choice Nominee 2013


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Components

  • 1 Building board
  • 4 Landscape boards
  • 4 Production boards
  • Glass wheel Brick wheel
  • 4 sets of 15 Specialist cards
  • 40 Good tokens
  • 51 small Landscape tiles
  • 24 large Forest tiles
  • 93 Building tiles
  • 1 sheet with stickers for the Good tokens
  • 1 Start player goblet
  • Instructions

Object of the Game

In Glass Road, you will produce glass over four building periods. Aside from glass, you will need to produce bricks and collect wood and clay to build buildings.

Only the value of your buildings will determine your final score and whether you will win the game or not. To accomplish this task, you will need the help of a variety of specialists. When choosing your specialists, try to anticipate which ones your opponents will choose to use your own more effectively. …



Play according to the rules of the 2-player game but with the following changes.

The goal of the solo game is to have as many points as possible at the end of the 7th building period. (30 points is considered a remarkable score).

For each building period, choose a number of Specialist cards as indicated by the following table. Set the other cards aside, face-down.

Shuffle the chosen Specialist cards and draw one randomly.

Play this card using only one of the two abilities on it. Continue to do so until you have only two cards left in your hand. …



The appendix consists of two sections: a list of all Specialist cards and a Building tile index.

Appendix 1: the Specialist Cards

This is a detailed list of the 15 Specialist cards and their abilities. There are some general rules regarding basic goods and how they are indicated on the Production wheels:

  • When gaining basic goods, move the corresponding token in clockwise order.

  • When paying basic goods, move the corresponding token in counter-clockwise order.

  • You cannot move a basic good past sector 7.

Reminder:
  • Glass and Bricks are not considered basic goods. …



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