I’ve just found a copy of this for £13… 
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Still has the pros and cons of PG. It still snowballs. And it doesnt have a map 
I like that bit but most people didnt like that it doesnt have a map
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18Lilliput goes for around £30. It’s really good fun. Maybe not so economic though but it’s an 18xx bridge.
Chicago Express is also a similar price, that’s fairly economics focussed. Shared incentives and valuations abound.
£50 for Pipeline might be pushing the bounds but it’s really good and chucking in the pipe puzzle fun times rodeo is very entertaining.
Tokyo Metro is maybe better than Lilliput overall in my eyes and might even be a bit more what you’re after. The shares and stocks and investments are a bit more to the fore. Also looks great and has a cool box. Price appears to be around £40. That would be my top recommendation from these.
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For context, I own Brass: Lancashire, Food Chain Magnate, Pipeline, and Tokyo Metro… I was struggling to get one of those, Root, and Sagrada into the £100 challenge 
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Fingers crossed for Arkwright the card game!
There’s also Modern Art the card game… which confuses me. Isn’t Modern Art itself a card game?!
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Tbh my £100 challenge would probably not be possible if I can’t have Indonesia for the price I payed for my copy.
I think I’d just go for that and Burano which goes for £20 these days and then I’d have my top 2 games.
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I have the older edition called Masters Gallery. It’s cardier than the original!
I considered backing the Kickstarter, but I seem to recall that shipping to the UK was very expensive.
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A few UK stores have ordered it in for a group pledge, and can offer for the same price as the KS without the shipping price (inbuilt to-house postage, and offer of protection again post-Brexit import costs [within reason]). The ADDED complexity is that the retail pledge on the KS gets the retail version of the game, so to get the KS edition, stores have had to enter for a standard group pledge.
Always more complicated than it needs to be!
If you want in on a group pledge let me know and I can ask the one I’m in. No pressure 
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Here’s my attempt (prices from Zatu):
- Tokyo Metro: £36.69
- Sagrada: £26.79
- Skull: £13.97
- Codenames: £11.49
- Saboteur: £10.49
(Root was just too expensive 
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So gave it a shot. It’s pretty hard.
Concordia £42
Arboretum £15
Dominion £33
6 nimmt £8
There were a lot of close calls. Cosmic Encounter nearly made it in place of Concordia. And it killed me to not include condottiere, arboretum just pushed it out though.
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6 Nimmt is a great shout. I think that and Hanabi are my most bang for your buck games along with Gloomhaven. Gloomhaven is less applicable to this exercise.
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Gloomhaven for £99.99, and two copies of One Night Ultimate Shove Ha’penny, solo edition?
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Approximately what I paid for them new:
Jaipur - £15
Decrypto - £15
Undaunted Normandy - £20
Whitehall Mystery - £25
Battle for Rokugan - £25
I’ll admit that I’ve only played UN and BfR a handful of times each but they’re already good value.
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I do like a bit of thread necromancy now and again!
Three games?
Carcassonne, Spirit Island and Concordia.
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I don’t think my list has changed that much…
Twilight Imperium 4th Edition for being the greatest game ever crafted by human hands
Diamant for being the superior version of Incan Gold and a great, silly, push your luck style game you can teach to (almost) anyone
… and probably Battletech if we’re including “games” as opposed to just “board games” due to the unbelievable flexibility (co-op, solo, campaign, RPG, quick skirmish through to massive sprawling scenarios, and hundreds of options of what and how to play). If we’re sticking with board games, I’d have to pick something co-op dungeon-delving again, but the truth is that I haven’t played Imperial Assault, as much as I love it, in years. I have all the content they released for it, but I’ve only played a quarter of that… it’s still great, but I don’t know what I would replace it with in this slot. Not Descent, which is fantastic but only one campaign, not Oathsworn which is starting to drag 12 missions in, definitely not Gloomhaven or Frosthaven which are both good but overly fiddly and the models are awful… maybe Xia Legends of a Drift System? It’s almost an RPG, and it’s varied enough and deep enough that you can play dozens of times and have different experiences each time? Maybe.
So there you go. My updated list of 3.5 games I would have in my collection.
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Mine’s changed completely. Now I’d go with:
Can play with anyone - Cascadia
Pleasing two-player - Star Wars: Outer Rim
Crazy all day solo - Nemo’s War
(Runners up:
Can play with anyone - Parks
Pleasing two-player - Santorini
Crazy all day solo - Obsession)
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Cascadia is a good one. Now that I’m thinking about it. Also auch a good solo with the challenges and the new expansion is fun.
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These were my previous picks. Spirit Island is still the single game that is set in stone.
Wingspan though while I still like it doesn’t make the cut. More important than many other considerations is: will my partner play this. So I have got to pick Clank! and currently I feel Catacombs is the best iteration. It is not too heavy, allows for some spicy moves but not too much.
The Crew is still an awesome game. But. Who needs light card games and fillers? And also it is impossible to solo. Clank! I could at least multihand. So no out the window it goes (I’ll pack a standard deck of cards though as a bonus to play all kinds of other trickery games and such)
So what is pick #3? I am on a roll with Terraforming Mars games and as much as I like Dice, nothing quite beats OG. Also TM has a great solo mode. So here are my 3 picks for now:
- Spirit Island (*)
- Clank! Catacombs (*) (**)
- Terraforming Mars (*)
and 1 deck of playing gards
(*) assuming I am allowed all the expansions, Catacombs can be combined with any fantasy Clank! of course, but even without them all these games shine!
(**) for a completely soloable 3 game collection remove Clank! and replace with Cascadia.
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I’m going to revise my £100 game collection from above.
Jaipur - £15
Arboretum - £15
Decrypto - £15
Whitehall Mystery - £25
Troyes - £30
3 years later and it’s mostly the same. 
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