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Agricola (board Game)
''Agricola'' is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. In ''Agricola'', players are farmers who sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families. After 14 rounds players calculate their score based on the size and prosperity of the household. The game was published by Lookout Games and released at Spiel 2007, where it was voted second-best game shown at the convention, according to the ''Fairplay'' in-show voting. The game was released in English by Z-Man Games in July 2008. Playdek released an iOS conversion of the game in June 2013. A second edition of ''Agricola'' was published by Mayfair Games in May 2016. ''Agricola'' won the Spiel des Jahres special award for "Best complex game 2008" and the 2008 Deutscher Spiele Preis. It was also the game that ended ''Puerto Ricos run of more than five years as the highest-rated game on the board ...
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Uwe Rosenberg
Uwe Rosenberg (born 27 March 1970) is a German game designer and the co-founder of Lookout Games. He initially became known for his card game ''Bohnanza'', which was successful both in Germany and internationally. He is known for complex economic strategy games, including ''Agricola (board game), Agricola'' and ''A Feast for Odin (board game), A Feast for Odin.'' Works Born in Aurich, Germany, Rosenberg first began to occupy himself with the development and mechanisms of games at the age of 12. He published a number of play-by-mail games during his school years. While he was still in college, Amigo Spiele, Amigo published his first major success, ''Bohnanza''. Since finishing his statistics studies in Dortmund (the subject of his thesis was "Probability distributions in Memory (game), Memory"), his main occupation is the development of games. In 2000, he and a few other game designers founded the publishing company Lookout Games. It published a number of expansions to ''Bohnan ...
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Spiel Des Jahres
The Spiel des Jahres (, ''Game of the Year'') is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design, and promoting excellent games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award was one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. A ''Spiel des Jahres'' nomination can increase the typical sales of a game from 500–3,000 copies to around 10,000, and the winner can usually expect to sell as many as 500,000 copies. Award criteria The award is given by a jury of German-speaking board game critics from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, who review games released in Germany in the preceding twelve months. The games considered for the award are family-style games. War games, role-playing games, collectible card games, and other complicated, highly competitive, or hobbyist games are outside the scope of the award. Since 1989, there ...
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Mayfair Games Games
Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the eastern edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane. It is one of the most expensive districts in the world. The area was originally part of the manor of Eia and remained largely rural until the early 18th century. It became well known for the annual "May Fair" that took place from 1686 to 1764 in what is now Shepherd Market. Over the years, the fair grew increasingly downmarket and unpleasant, and it became a public nuisance. The Grosvenor family (who became Dukes of Westminster) acquired the land through marriage and began to develop it under the direction of Thomas Barlow. The work included Hanover Square, Berkeley Square and Grosvenor Square, which were surrounded by high-quality houses, and St George's Hanover Square Church. By the end of the 18th century, most of Mayfair was built on with upper-class housing; unlike some nearby areas of Lo ...
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IOS Games
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also includes the system software for iPads predating iPadOS—which was introduced in 2019—as well as on the iPod Touch devices—which were discontinued in mid-2022. It is the world's second-most widely installed mobile operating system, after Android. It is the basis for three other operating systems made by Apple: iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS. It is proprietary software, although some parts of it are open source under the Apple Public Source License and other licenses. Unveiled in 2007 for the first-generation iPhone, iOS has since been extended to support other Apple devices such as the iPod Touch (September 2007) and the iPad (introduced: January 2010; availability: April 2010.) , Apple's App Store contains more than 2.1 million iO ...
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Board Games About History
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Board or Boards may refer to: Flat surface * Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat ** Plank (wood) ** Cutting board ** Sounding board, of a musical instrument * Cardboard (paper product) * Paperboard * Fiberboard ** Hardboard, a type of fiberboard * Particle board, also known as ''chipboard'' ** Oriented strand board * Printed circuit board, in computing and electronics ** Motherboard, the main printed circuit board of a computer * A reusable writing surface ** Chalkboard ** Whiteboard Recreation * Board game **Chessboard **Checkerboard * Board (bridge), a device used in playing duplicate bridge * Board, colloquial term for the rebound statistic in basketball * Board track racing, a type of motorsport popular in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s * Boards, the wall around a bandy field or ice hockey rink * Boardsports * Diving board (other) Companies * Board International, a Swiss software vendor known for its business intelligence software to ...
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Digital Games Research Association
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) is a nonprofit international learned society whose work focuses on game studies and associated activities. DiGRA was formally established in 2003 in Finland. It is a leading academic organization in the field of digital games. Frans Mäyrä was the founding president from 2003 to 2006. DiGRA aims to coordinate activities related to academic research of games in different disciplines and in different parts of the world. For this purpose, several local chapters and special interest groups (SIGs) have been set up within DiGRA. Together with local organisers, DiGRA has so far produced eight conferences. DiGRA has also supported smaller regional conferences and, starting in 2014, DiGRA's conference is run annually. The published papers from these conferences are collected and made available online in the DiGRA digital library. Starting in 2013, DiGRA began publishing, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University's ETC Press, an open acc ...
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Golden Geek Award
BoardGameGeek (BGG) is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 125,600 different tabletop games, including European-style board games, wargames, and card games. In addition to the game database, the site allows users to rate games on a 1–10 scale and publishes a ranked list of board games. As of , boardgamegeek.com has an Alexa rank of . History BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko, and marked its 20th anniversary on 20 January 2020. Since 2005, BoardGameGeek hosts an annual board game convention, BGG.CON, that has a focus on playing games, and where winners of the Golden Geek Awards are announced. New games are showcased and convention staff is provided to teach rules. There is also an annual Spring BGG.CON which is family friendly, and an annual BGG@Sea which is held on a cruise. In 2010, BoardGameGeek received the Diana Jones Award, which recognized it as "a resourc ...
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Caverna (board Game)
''Caverna: The Cave Farmers'' is a 2013 board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a complex worker placement strategy game that shares similarities in gameplay and theme with his earlier board game, ''Agricola,'' The game's theme revolves around helping a small dwarf family to settle a cave and nearby woodlands and to develop the setting through furnishing caves as well as converting forests into meadows, fields and pastures. ''Caverna'' received positive reviews from critics, two major expansions have also been released for the game. Gameplay ''Caverna'' is chiefly a worker-placement game with engine building elements for 1–7 players that play over 12 rounds. Each player begins the game as dwarfs seeking ores and rubies to develop their home spaces, which includes a forest to be converted to fields and meadows (the later can store animals by modifying it into pastures) and two caverns that can be expanded. During each round, a new action spaces added, accumulated spaces ar ...
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Agricola Animeeples (cattle And Wild Boar) (5650295714)
Agricola, the Latin word for farmer, may also refer to: People Cognomen or given name :''In chronological order'' * Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40–93), Roman governor of Britannia (AD 77–85) * Sextus Calpurnius Agricola, Roman governor of the mid–2nd century AD * Agricola (consul 421) (365–?), Western Roman statesman * Agricola (vir inlustris) (), son of the Western Roman Emperor Avitus * Saints Vitalis and Agricola (died 304), martyrs * Agricola of Avignon (c. 630–c. 700), bishop of Avignon and saint * Saint Agricola of Nevers (died 594), bishop of Nevers Surname :''In alphabetical order'' * Adam Christian Agricola (1593–1645), evangelical preacher * Alexander Agricola (1446–1506), Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance * Christoph Ludwig Agricola (1667–1719), German landscape painter * Georg Andreas Agricola (1672–1738), German physician and naturalist * Georg Ludwig Agricola (1643–1676), German composer * Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German scholar an ...
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Agricola Board Game
Agricola, the Latin word for farmer, may also refer to: People Cognomen or given name :''In chronological order'' * Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40–93), Roman governor of Britannia (AD 77–85) * Sextus Calpurnius Agricola, Roman governor of the mid–2nd century AD * Agricola (consul 421) (365–?), Western Roman statesman * Agricola (vir inlustris) (), son of the Western Roman Emperor Avitus * Saints Vitalis and Agricola (died 304), martyrs * Agricola of Avignon (c. 630–c. 700), bishop of Avignon and saint * Saint Agricola of Nevers (died 594), bishop of Nevers Surname :''In alphabetical order'' * Adam Christian Agricola (1593–1645), evangelical preacher * Alexander Agricola (1446–1506), Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance * Christoph Ludwig Agricola (1667–1719), German landscape painter * Georg Andreas Agricola (1672–1738), German physician and naturalist * Georg Ludwig Agricola (1643–1676), German composer * Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German sc ...
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