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Mombasa: Cooked Books Mini Expansion

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Published
2016
Reach
Well known (via base game)
Players
2–4
Play time
75–150 min
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Main mechanics

  • Action programming
  • Area control
  • Deck / bag building
  • Hand management
  • Drafting
  • Worker placement
  • Action programming: You commit to moves in advance and watch them play out.
  • Area control: Presence on the map decides who scores.
  • Deck / bag building: You shape your own deck or bag of resources as you play.
  • Hand management: Timing which card to spend is the core puzzle.
Full publisher description

Contained in the Deutscher Spielepreis 2016 Goodie Box Includes 6 book tiles and 1 bookkeeper tile Setup: Add the new book tiles to the ones from the base game. Place the bookkeeper tile next to the game board. This bonus space is an additional bonus space and remains there for the duration of the game Game Play: Pay the amount depicted on the bonus tile to acquire it. At the end of the game, the bonus values of all new book tiles that your ink jar has reached or passed are added to your bookkeeping scoring category Majority bonus bookkeeper space: If no other player has a higher total of bookkeepers, you may place here. You bookkeepers are not used up by this action. Reward: 1 bookkeeper gets you 2 pounds from the bank. 2 bookkeepers gets you 5 pounds from the bank 3 or more bookkeepers gets you 9 pounds from the bank

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