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Art By
Published By
Year Published
1999
# of Players:
3 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5 players
Recommended with 4, 5 players
(32 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
(8 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(16 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Chinatown
Alternate Names
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This is a negotiation game in the truest sense of the word. In it, players acquire ownership of sections of city blocks then place tiles, representing businesses, onto the block-sections. At the end of each turn, each tile you've laid gives you some sort of payout, but completed businesses (formed of three to six connected tiles of the same type) pay quite a bit better. All these resources are dealt to the players randomly, however, so players must trade to get matching businesses and adjacent locations.

This game is #2 in the Alea big box series.

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4 Reglas español de Chinatown (ALEA)
Versión española del reglamento de Chinatown de Alea. Traducidas desde la versión francesa.
2009-06-20
0 Teaching aid for Chinatown - in Hebrew
המערך אינו הסבר ממצה של חוקי המשחק אלא אמצעי עזר לשחקן המסביר את חוקי המשחק לשחקנים חדשים
2009-04-26
2 Bonus Cards for New Edition
Bonus Cards in the new Z-Man style, in pdf for easy printing at home. 4 sheet pdf, sheets 1&2 are A4 sized, while 3&4 are Letter sized.
2009-04-12
2 Russian rules Chinatown
Правила игры Chinatown на русском языке
2009-03-22
3 Chinatown -- Alea Official Variants by chaosbreaker
Alea variants that were removed in the new Filosofia edition are here for play.
2009-02-17
1 Chinatown: carte riassuntive in ita
Chinatown Filosofia edition - carte riassuntive in italiano x5
2009-01-07
0 Chinatown: regolamento in ita
Chinatown Filosofia Editions - Rules in Italian with original layout.
2009-01-05
0 Chinatown Magyar szabály (új kiadás)
Hungarian translation of the rules (new edition)
2008-08-17
6 English Chinatown Reference cards - Side 1 - NEW edition
This page is for use with the page 2 of the other reference cards I posted here. This version has the new monetary values (incresed by a decimal place from the old Alea version). If you want the cards for one of the NEW editions, you'll want to use this file for the side 1 of the cards.
2008-04-02
7 English Chinatown Reference Cards
These should be printed double sided (page 1 on one side, page 2 opn the other). Use auto-rotate and center. They are based on the reference cards that come with Alea's Chinatown. I added a black card and a white card, because it appears (from photos) that the upcoming Filosofia version will contain black and white as player colors...
2008-04-01
Statistics
User Rank: 151
Num Ratings: 1668
Average Rating: 7.33
Standard Deviation: 1.29
Num Views: 92178
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
Similarly Rated: View
Avg. Game Weight: 2.5 moreinfo
Fans: 16
Personal Comments: 690
Users Owning: 1730
Users Wanting: 337
Users Trading: 27
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 1
Price History: View
Total Plays: 2249
Plays This Month: 3
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