''Saint Petersburg'' () is a card-driven designer board game, with the design of the game credited to ''Michael Tummelhofer'', a pseudonym for ''Michael'' Bruinsma, Jay ''Tummel''son and Bernd Brunn''hofer''. Most of the design work was done by Brunnhofer. The game was published in 2004 by

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and

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, and won the

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and

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for that year. The first expansion, by

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, is ''The Banquet'', appearing first as an insert in a magazine, and consists of 12 new cards (3 normal and 9 special). The second expansion, by Tom Lehmann, is ''The New Society'' and consists of 36 cards (28 normal, 7 replacement, and a fifth role card), plus rules to expand the game to five players. Both expansions were bundled together and sold as the ''St. Petersburg Expansion''. In 2014, a successful

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campaign on the German website ''Spieleschmiede'' led to the printing of a second edition of ''Saint Petersburg''. This edition included brand-new art for all of the cards; rebalanced some of the cards; and added a new expansion, ''The Market'', which introduced a new scoring mechanism and allowed five players to play the game, replacing ''The New Society'' as the recommended five-player expansion. This edition also included the new cards from both expansions from the first edition plus four brand-new expansion modules.

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computer version of the game
at Westpark Gamers
online version of the game
at Yucata.de
Review of Saint Petersburg
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