For Sale

[mattlistener]

Before I try to sell these on ebay...

$20 Princes of Florence
$20 La Citta
$20/$12 Elfenland/Elfengold
$20 Lord of the Rings (Knizia cooperative boardgame)

All are played a couple times, hence punched but "like new". PoF, LaC, and EG are out of print.

[see comment for capsule descriptions]

Comments

[randysmith]

Do you want to recommend any of them? (This feels like a silly question, since you probably wouldn't be giving them away if you did, but a quick summary of gameplay/pluses & minuses would be useful in managing any impulse purchase urges I may have).

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

Princes of Florence is in a family with Puerto Rico: each round, enhance your estate, try to produce something, aim to fulfill bonus conditions by game end. The player interaction is via auction, and there's a box-packing challenge in putting elements in your estate in a way that leaves room for the rest of your plans. Definitely a good game, personally I'm more likely to play Puerto Rico.
Rank at funagain: 4.7 out of 5. [link]

La Citta is a city-expansion game with three different spheres of development, only one of which matters each round (determined semi-randomly). At the end of each round neighboring cities are compared in the sphere that turns out to matter, and superior ones attract citizens from inferior ones. A good gamer's game, unbalanced when experienced players play with newbies. (T&E fits that description too.)
Rank at funagain: 4.3 out of 5. [link]

Elfenland is a "travelling salesman" game in which you try to visit towns on a very pretty map as efficiently as you can using the transportation options dealt to you -- and piggy-backing on the options implemented by others. Elfengold turns this from a light family game into a gamer's game, making an auction of the selection of transportation options, with money generated by visiting towns. volta was crushingly good at this game in his first play, because "this game plays the way my brain works".
EL rank at funagain: 3.9 out of 5. [link]
EG rank at funagain: 4 out of 5. [link]

Lord of the Rings has a very original format -- the players have a cooperative goal: destroy the ring, and don't let Sauruman get it in the meantime. Individuals can die, so self-interest can interfere with group-interest. Hands of resources are kept hidden but players are encouraged to discuss what's available and work out the best approach to each situation. The antagonist is the board itself, and the scary semi-random progression of events from the lotr timeline. The longer it takes the party to complete each scenario, the more likely it is that the forces of evil will achieve more of their own ends, corrupting the hobbits and bringing the ring closer to capture. Fun depends entirely on group dynamic -- there are numerous reports of groups that find this very replayable, and there are now two expansions (ranking 4.5 and 5).
Rank at funagain: 3.9 out of 5. [link]

[zzbottom.livejournal.com]

Very interested in your Prince of Florence.