Exhibition: 20th Century

At the heart of this game is the deck of cards: one for each year from 1900 to 1999 plus the wild Albert Einstein (it's the hair). Your aim, as a museum curator, is to put together collections from these cards, usually in ascending order of year,usually in different colours.

The cards available to draft are laid out randomly in columns and each player has a marker at the top of a column. They take a card from that column and then move to the column of the same colour as that card. This is fiendish! Not only do you have to think about how a card will fit into your exhibition, you have to think about where it will take you next and what might be available in that column...

The one-player game has minimal changes to the rules but means you don't have other players interfering in your plans. This means you can plot out several turns at the beginning – only for the new cards to give you other options. This is a clever, challenging game and the title suggests we may get other centuries to play with.

There is one expansion to the game already and that's the "Variation showcases". These overlay some/all of the collection spaces on players' boards to give different constraints on their collections. Great for when you think you've mastered the challenge of the base game. Ahem.

For 1-5 players, aged 9, playing time 20-50 minutes: £20.00 (£16.67 without tax outside the UK)
 

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Exhibition: 20th Century was designed by Peter Joustra, Ron van Dalen and Corné van Moorsel and is published by Cwali

Find out more:
    Exhibition: 20th Century on BoardGameGeek
    Pevans's first impressions of Exhibition: 20th Century in TWJO issue 221

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Variation showcases

As noted above, this is a set of card overlays to go on players' boards. Each changes the requirements for the particular collection it covers, providing variety and fresh challenges to Exhibition: 20th Century. You can add one variation, several or all of them, depending on how big a change you want.

For 1-5 players, aged 9, playing time 20-50 minutes (with the base game): £5.00 (£4.17 without tax outside the UK)
 

In stock

Exhibition: 20th Century – Variation showcases was designed by Peter Joustra, Ron van Dalen and Corné van Moorsel and is published by Cwali

Find out more:
    Exhibition: 20th Century – Variation showcases on BoardGameGeek

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