2021 · Territory Building

Nouvelle-France

Players take turns drawing shaped construction-block cards and adding the indicated piece to one of three shared buildings: a military redoubt, a church, or a seigneurial mill. Blocks must follow placement rules set by foundation tiles and height limits, and cannot be slid under existing pieces. Each placement scores points for newly placed cubes of the player’s color plus bonus points for touching existing cubes of the same color. Special ally and neutral blocks alter scoring or placement options. Three times during the game a snowflake card triggers a level scoring: cubes visible on that level are tallied with modifiers and then hidden by snowdrifts. After the third snow scoring, the highest total wins.

groupPlayers

2–4 best 3

schedulePlaying time

45–60 min

cakeAge

10+

psychologyComplexity

2 / 5