Big Kini (2005)

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Board Game Rank: 1969

Strategy Game Rank: 713

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Designer	Guido Eckhof
Artist	Bert Elter
Publisher	Playme.de
Year Published	2005
# of Players	2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players	(Not best with any number) Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players (7 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Strategy Games (7 voters) [vote]
Category	Civilization Territory Building
Mechanic	Modular Board
Expansion	Big Kini Expansion: 5-6 Players and Action Cards Big Kini: Flaschenpost
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Primary Name	Big Kini
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In this game, players explore a variable landscape to discover islands and try to gain influence and prestige. Influence is gained by taking over posts on the island which gives the player special abilities.

Expanded by Big Kini Expansion: 5-6 Players and Action Cards

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Big Kini

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First Edition

Publisher: Playme.de

Artist: Bert Elter

Year: 2005

Size: 12.19 x 8.69 x 2.38 inches

1.75 pounds

English, German

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1	General Anybody have a copy of the Expert (Designer Fixed) Rules?	2009-05-17	Rompcat	3
0	Rules Voting Question	2008-08-06	punkzter	1
0	Rules Two Questions (Proliferation and Movement)	2008-01-05	punkzter	2
9	Reviews Big Kini - Review	2007-04-25	gschloesser	4
3	Sessions Big Kini Takes A Toll	2007-03-23	Samuraicat	1
0	Sessions Big Kini - Session Report	2006-03-22	gschloesser	2
0	Rules The new expert rules	2006-02-09	easterly1	1
0	General Variants and Optional rules	2006-02-07	GeoMan	6
0	General Exporation	2006-01-05	locusshifter	4
3	Reviews Big Kini... a dissapointment	2005-12-17	alfons	4

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0	Big Kini: Flaschenpost General Get it from Playme.de	2009-12-14	GeoMan	3
3	Big Kini Expansion: 5-6 Players and Action Cards General Flawed for 5 players - math shows how	2008-07-06	reapersaurus	7
1	Big Kini Expansion: 5-6 Players and Action Cards Rules Action Cards	2005-12-03	AdamT	1

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Expert Rules German and English

From the publisher

Peter Loop

2009-05-17

Big Kini - Player's Aid

Cut and glue at the back of the scoring boards. It covers the expansion for 5-6 players and the advance rules.

Thrylos

2008-02-01

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523	Best With Two	2009-11-26
442	Theme changed by the publisher	2006-09-07
410	2007 Edition of: My Secret Santa Sent Me... (only received gifts)	2007-11-20
179	Essen 2005 Canonical List	2005-08-18
148	Blow off the dust! "Dated" non-top-100 games you should check out	2008-07-02
137	The Monster List of New and Upcoming Games, Sorted by Rating (Fall 2005 Edition)	2006-01-12
115	Games and Designers - A Photo Tribute	2006-10-31
70	Games set on or around islands	2010-10-20
68	The M'aider Math Trade	2009-04-29
58	GAMESTORM 11 - Games played and overall assessments	2009-03-29

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Board Game Rank:	1969
Strategy Game Rank:	713
Num Ratings:	262
Average Rating:	6.45
Standard Deviation:	1.14
Num Views:	23058
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.5
Fans:	0

Personal Comments:	131
Users Owning:	303
Users Wanting:	16
Users Trading:	27 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Total Plays:	270
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Big Kini Expansion: 5-6 Players and Action Cards

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	68
Average Rating	6.39
Average Weight	2.78

Num Owned	176
Prev. Owned	25
For Trade	14
Want in Trade	2

Wishlist	7
Comments	34
Year Published	2005

Big Kini: Flaschenpost

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	0
Average Rating	0.00
Average Weight	0.00

Num Owned	11
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	0
Want in Trade	6

Wishlist	5
Comments	0
Year Published	2009

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German review - spieletest.at	http://www.spieletest.at/spiel.php?ID=1228	2011-11-26
German review - Hall9000	http://www.hall9000.de/html/spiel/big_kini	2011-11-26
German Review on Michas-Spielmitmir.de	http://www.michas-spielmitmir.de/spieletests.php?i...	2006-10-21
Bruno Faidutti's ideal game library	http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=ludothequ...	2005-11-17
Game review at La Tana dei Goblin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2005-11-02
Westpark Gamers review (in English)	http://www.westpark-gamers.de/Reviews/bericht181.h...	2005-10-23