Review: Kolejka (Queue)
Posted by James (admin) on 6th November 2012
When someone suggests a game about queuing and shortages in Poland in the 1980’s, your first thought is probably to avoid eye contact and back away. However, Kolejka (which is Polish for ‘Queue’ and pronounced col-aay-ka) is actually a gem of a game which I hope gets the attention it deserves as it actually contains a great Eurogame as well as an interesting and fitting theme.
Players are each trying to obtain 10 goods listed on their objective cards – for example, 4 luxury goods, 3 pieces of clothing, 2 food and 1 electrical. The first player to collect all of their items wins, or the player that collects the most of their items by the end of the game.
Each round a few goods will arrive at some of the 5 stores. First, before knowing what will arrive where, players take turns adding any of their people (meeple) who are not in queues to the queues. Then, goods cards are revealed which determine how many goods arrive at which stores, e.g. 2 electrical items at the electrical store, 3 foods at the food store, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
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