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FEATURES | - 2 to 4 players
- 60 to 90 minutes to play
- Russian city building
- Strategy game
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
This is the English language edition of Hans im Gl?ck |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 11 reviews)
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We've all reverted to the Stone Age by Eric A. Evans  5 Stars
September 24, 2009
Stone Age has been one of the most playable and engrossing games in my collection. The rules are relatively simple. I can usually get non-gamers to play it. Almost every time we play I end up looking at my watch after the game and wondering where the time went. This is truly a great game.
Stone Age is a European-Type, worker placement game. In Stone Age, each player has a tribe of villagers that need resources like food and building material. The goal of the game is to accumulate resources with which each tribe can purchase buildings and valuable cards. The trick is to allocate resources wisely to get the most points. Sounds dull right? But this game is so beautifully designed, it really works.
The game board is a work of art and draws players into a prehistoric scene. Likewise the game comes with fo-bone dice and a leather cup (sturdy, yet crudely stitched like one would find in the stone age. All of these little touches tends to make even non-gamers enjoy the game. Our game group plays this allot. Each time the dice are rolled, everyone chants "oo-ka-la-ka, oo-ka-la-ka" until the dice are thrown. When you can get 4 aging hippies to chant "oo-ka-la-ka" you know you've got a good theme going.
This game is quite similar to "Pillars of the Earth" though not quite as complex.
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Stone Age Review Rick Meyer by Richard D. Meyer Jr.  4 Stars
September 07, 2009
This has been a great family game, for the kids it helps teach strategy and math, for me it is more stimulating than some of the other games the kids have.
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A challenging fun game by girl in the pink jacket 5 Stars
May 28, 2009
I bought this game as a birthday gift for my husband after playing it twice with our friends. We played it the day he got it and it finally made sense...so it took us 3 times to actually fully understand the game, but we love it! The game is challenging and there are so many different strategies to winning...that is what we love about it! It takes about 1.5-2 hours to play but it is a fun game. The product is extremely well made.
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EXCELLENT 2 HOUR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GAME by MISTER SJEM (CALIF BAY AREA United States) 5 Stars
April 23, 2009
CONCEPT: a village of cavemen/cavewomen break off into smaller groups to create the best community. Best being determined by stone age advanced, most buildings, most people, most food production, etc.
OVERALL GRADE: B to B plus (but only if you enjoy resource management games which are competitive but less so than wargames and the standard Axis & Allies board games)
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2-4
AGES: 10 and up, though, I think it's more like 12 and up. Seems complicated for 10 years olds.
OVERALL SPREAD: every player starts with 5 pieces that represent a group of their people. Every phase of your turn you get to place some of those pieces into a certain category on the board.
Those categories are typically:
1. VILLAGE CENTER: put two pieces to create a baby at the end of the piece. You can also increase your food production or build tools that offset bad rolls.
2. RESOURCES: you can go for more food by hunting or seek out quarries for wood, clay, stone or gold. Gold is the hardest to get per turn. You need a six on a regular die to get this so most players use multiple workers to have a shot at getting just one gold resource.
3. BUILDING: there are four stacks of possible huts to build. What is required are a variation of resources. The better resources means more victory points. One thing about this stacks is that when one runs out the game is over.
4. CARDS: there are four cards laid down. You have to put a worker down and also pay resources. These cards typically give you something or give you a chance of getting something. One of the big victory point conditions on these cards are artifacts which can really add up your total. In addition, there are special types of people, like shamans (who add bonuses to your total people at the end of the game), builders (for number of huts at the end of the game), farmers (adding totals to your food production at the end of the game) and workers (adding bonus totals to your total tool use point total). Like building cards, the game ends when there are no more cards to draw from the pile and there are less than four cards remaining.
TACTICS: this is a game where blocking your opponents can really pay off. For instance, if someone is close to ending the game the other players can block a card he/she needs to play or they can sit on a resource that he/she cannot take. In fact, the rules actually suggest you do such things
Heh.
HOW DOES IT COMPARE TO AGRICOLA? For those who have played this game the answer is that STONE AGE is about half the time and a third to a quarter of the many resource pieces.
Enjoy!!!!
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Stone Age by L. Day (~Iowa) 5 Stars
April 17, 2009
This game is great!!!!!!!! Super fun!!!!
Its semi tough to learn a good way to play.
I've won 8 outta 8 times. So the game really has to be played with an idea in mind. So this game is not for those who go on luck alone because odds our your luck will run out long before the game is done and lose.
But this game is great!!!!
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