Capstone Games: Crystal Palace – Strategy Board Game, 2-5 Players, Ages 14+, 60 to 150 Min

In Crystal Palace, each player represents a nation during the first World’s Fair of 1851 in London. To make sure that your country attracts everyone’s attention, you are going to showcase spectacular inventions and recruit the brightest, most influential minds of your time! Whether in the sacred halls of Westminster or in the dark corners of the docks, you are pulling the strings everywhere, to prepare for the great event in the best possible way. And it could all be so easy – if your government had provided you with unlimited means. As it is, you are constantly torn between modest investments and excessive loans. But if you make the right choices for the Great Exhibition, your nation will get covered in glory at Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace is a dice-placement game where the players determine the status of their dice at the beginning of each round. The higher the number, the better — but it comes at a price. Over the course of the game, dice are placed on 8 action locations in a competition for the best resources, patents, and brains. In a world of slightly weird inventions, you will meet people like Phileas Fogg, Levi Strauss, and Amelia Edwards, and invent gadgets such as the Thinking Machine, the Beer Glass Counter, or the Climate Changer.