Paris: La Cité de la Lumière

Paris: City of Light is how I translate the title and streetlights play an important part in the game. It's also a game of two halves, the first part setting up the board for the second. Though it's perfectly possible for your opponent to wreck your preparations when it comes to actually playing the second half.

The aim is to get your buildings onto the board (carefully contained within the game's box) so that they are illuminated by Parisian streetlights. However, you can only put your buildings on cobbled areas in your colour – or neutral. Hence the importance of the first half, which is when you lay cobblestone (and streetlight) tiles and grab buildings. But it's only in the second half that you score points and it's so easy to come unstuck!

I really enjoyed this game when I played it at Spiel '19 and it looks pretty as well. I know have the Eiffel expansion.

For 2 players, aged 8+, playing time 30 minutes: £18.00 (£15.00 without tax outside the UK)
 

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Paris: City of Light was designed by José Antonio Abascal Acebo and is published by Devir

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    Paris: City of Light on BoardGameGeek
    Pevans's first impressions of Paris: City of Light at Spiel '19 in To Win Just Once 200

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Paris: Eiffel

How to make the game more like Paris: add the city's major landmarks. This expansion adds neat cardboard stand-ups of Paris's attractions, including the Louvre the Arc de Triomph and, of course, the Eiffel Tower (though opinion's divided on this one). Extra 'postcards' provide more variability to the gameplay and the whole thing looks just as pretty and more like Paris.

For 2 players, aged 8+, playing time 30 minutes: £13.00 (£10.83 without tax outside the UK)
 

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Paris: Eiffel was designed by José Antonio Abascal Acebo and is published by Devir

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