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The second edition of the game adds a couple of modules. Yes, if you want to be good at the game, you have to think about these things. The more rounds it can generate points the better, or it has such a high yield per round that it’s OK again. The later in the game you buy a card that gives you points, the lower the yield. Get your economy running that’s the thing. That means that you might be able, financially, to buy more cards in the building phase, and it might be totally worth it to do so, but because you are the first player in the next phase, there is a chance that you can get an even better deal in the next phase. If you have the aristocrat phase token, you’ll be first player that phase, so you have first dibs on the new aristocrat cards. Every phase has a token and these tokens will move to the next player at the beginning of a new round. The way the player order works might also influence your decision to buy or not to buy certain cards.

In the beginning of the game you will get most of your money at the end of the worker phase, so that means that you have to use your money wisely in the four phases that come after. It’s mostly just buying the right cards and try to asses if a card gives you enough back in term of money or points.īecause you only get money at the end of certain phases, if you have the right cards, you have to be really careful when to buy what card.

There are very few rules and everything play smoothly. The game itself, like you can read above, is pretty simple. The game does look more attractive now, I have to say that, so only that might draw more people in. In my opinion the game did not need anything more than was in the box from 2004. I already like this base version of the game. It ends after the round where one of the card stacks is empty and then you count the aristocrats and the player with the most points wins the game. This is a short summary of the base game.

The more unique aristocrats you have collected the more end-game points you will get. Or you have a good amount of aristocrats that give you sufficient amounts of money, of course.Īristocrats are also very important because they can give you loads of points at the end of the game. So, if you spend all you money during the building phase, there’s a good chance that you can’t buy anything good during the coming aristocrat, exchange and new worker phase. But remember, only at the end of that phase. In general the worker cards will give you money during the game, buildings give you points and aristocrats give a bit of both. So, if players buy no cards during the building phase, for instance, no new aristocrat cards will be added to the board in that phase. For cards in the bottom row you have to pay one coin less.Įvery phase you will draw cards from the corresponding deck until a certain amount of cards is displayed on the board. During the current round you will place cards in the top row, phase after phase, and after a round ends you will move the cards that are left in the top row to the bottom row, removing all cards that were left in the bottom row. You only have to pay the difference in value between the two cards. At the end of the exchange phase you won’t get anything.Įxchange cards are special anyway because these can be buildings, workers or aristocrats and you can exchange this card with a card of the same type that you already have in front of you. Worker cards ‘produce’ at the end of the worker phase, buildings give you stuff at the end of the building phase and aristocrats give points or money at the end of the aristocrat phase. All cards cost you money, but will also give you money or points at the end of the different phases. There’s the worker phase, the building phase, the aristocrat phase and the exchange phase. Let’s take a look at this game from Bernd Brunnhofer and Karl-Heinz Schmiel.Ī round in the base game is divided into four phases and during each phase the market is filled up with cards of a specific type. Published in 2004, but in 2014 they’ve released a second edition, which added new modules to the game and updated the artwork. Saint Petersburg is an older game, twelve years old to be precise.