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This game revolves around the placement of multi-national customers in a restaurant. The board shows many different tables, each with four chairs around them. The tables are grouped by nation, so the Chinese like to sit with other Chinese. However, some of the chairs are on the border between two nations, so a person from either place could occupy the seat. To further complicate this odd tile game, each of the people is either male or female, and tables must be gender-balanced. As the game progresses some tiles become unplayable...
Year Published
1989
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Adam Porter - Adams Board Game Wales general_discussion at 0:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- new version with improved components
- fits alongside Tikal and Java in the trilogy reprint line
- artistic cohesion with Tikal aesthetics
Cons
- risk of diverging from the original’s feel for purists
Thematic elements
- Adventure/Discovery
- Jungle exploration and temple-building in a mythical Mexico
- Thematic/Epic
Comparison games
- Tikal
- Java
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- now this is how you do a reprint tikal
- this is not a straight reprint this is a complete overhaul of the system and again again it's an example of how reprints should be done it looks absolutely fantastic
- I love stacking a metal elephant on top of a strongman
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