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Burano

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  1. 6 out of 10

    4 hours for a 2 player game, including learning it. And learning it was hard, so many odd rules that seemed hard to remember. We got confused especially by some of the scoring in the clean-up phase. We both liked the game but it seemed too much work for what resulted. The core mechanism of placing big cubes to place rooves to trigger scoring effects really worked. The bonus scoring cards seemed to work. But man was it hard to get money. We spent many actions just raising cash just to proceed with the game. It needs a game editor to really chop it down and pull it together. We did not think we played slowly, nor did we think it'd improve with more players. It was just a lot of work to get through. I would play it again but I'd play other games sooner.

  2. 6 out of 10

    Only played once. Medium-heavy weight Euro that was just overly complex for my tastes. In particular, the pyramid building bit of the game seemed unnecessary as all it added was immense frustration.

  3. 8 out of 10

    One of the very fine Euros that I played before. You required to stack buildings efficiently and interaction happens very closely. Pros: - Colorful - Tight - Planning Oriented Cons: - Quite lengthy - Prone to AP

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Burano, also known as the lace island, is an island in the northern Venetian lagoon. Burano is extremely famous for its brightly colored houses, those square-shaped houses of a riot of colors along the water channels make it like a fairy tale land.

Fishing has been the main activity in Burano since its foundation. A story goes that while fishermen went a long-term fishing outside the lagoon, their wife who stayed and missed their husband took out needles and made lace like they mended their husband’s fishing nets.

In the Middle Ages, Burano lace was highly admired and widely requested by royal families all over Europe. Players represent a family leader on this little island. They can send men to fish for the main source of income, or send women to lacemaking to sale abroad. Making a good living and making Burano become world famous, you have to figure out how to organize family members to their suitable work. It depends on you to earn the glory for your family and lead them to be outstanding from other families.

Burano is played over four seasons, 14 rounds altogether. Through the novel "cube pyramid-driven" mechanism, players take turns paying coins to operate their cube pyramid during each round. The operation of the color-coded cubes would trigger certain actions, such as fishing, lace making, and house roofing, which will earn players victory points (VP). At the end of the game, whoever has earned the most VP wins.

Ages

12+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

90m – 120m
Designer

Eros Lin, Yu-Chen Tseng
Mechanics

Action Points, Area Majority / Influence, Pick-up and Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection
Theme

City Building
Publisher

EmperorS4, Lucrum Games, Quick Simple Fun Games, Broadway Toys LTD
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