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Between Two Cities is a 30-minute tile-drafting game for 1-7 players in which each tile is part of a city. You work with the player on your left to build one city center while simultaneously working with the player on your right to build a second city center. On each turn you select two tiles from your hand, reveal them, then work with your partners to place one of your selected tiles into each of your two cities.
At the end of the game, each city is scored for its architectural grandiosity. Your final score is the lower of the scores of the two cities you helped design, and the player with the highest final score wins the game. To win, you have to share your attention and your devotion equally Between Two Cities.
The Essential Edition combines components from the original game and the Capitals expansion into one cohesive whole. While it features a bigger box than the original game, different art on some tiles, and a scorepad instead of a board, there are no new gameplay elements (i.e., if you own Between Two Cities and the Capitals Expansion, you already have everything).
—description from the publisher
- Expansion folded into the box
- Consolidated rule book
- Fits insert well with expansion pieces
- Great for conventions and accessibility
- Art remains appealing
- Diagram/tray diagrams may not match perfectly with the original
- There can be minor tray/color differences
- Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig
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- I love Castles and Mad King Lidwick.
- Great game. Great for conventions.
- I love the art.
- Yep. If you never got anything with between two castles, get the essential edition.
- fits in so well like a puzzle piece feels so pre-planned
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- Now onto the video that I already filmed where I talk about sponsorships and maybe if I get to it if I have time, my ranking of my top 10 favorite Stonemaier games.
- No money was exchanged. We're just kind of a figurative sponsorship rather than a a literal one.
- Why build roads when you can go to space?
- What better way to tour Japan than from inside a giant mech?
- Making sure everyone's vantage is never blurry.
- I love that a rum company is the sponsor of our wine making game Viticulture.
- When you can't find enough friends to use as bait to tame real dragons, you can do it on the tabletop with much less bloodshed.