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Nuno Conde
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
RJ
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Jogo aberto e em ótimas condições (está com o insert). Jogado poucas vezes.
Edição: alemã da Hasbro (essa da imagem ao lado), com regras impressas em inglês.
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Lloyd B
United Kingdom
Sidcup
Kent
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Another Knizia - I play it just often enough that I can remember having played it, but not how to play it.
Turns out, it's pretty good.
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Steve Bullock
United States
Palm Coast
Florida
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Brand new in shrink. "Face To Face Games" version.
Start: 20.00
BIN: 22.00
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Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
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Face to Face Edition
Very good used condition. Only played a couple times.
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Michael Green
United States
Massillon
Ohio
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Mint in the original shrink. English.
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With translated English instructions
Plus, sweetener :
Castle Keep
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JDM
Canada
Pickering
Ontario
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Tabscon only
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Travis Monson
United States
Fairbanks
Alaska
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Open, played once. Box has some shelf wear, but box and components are in excellent condition.
Starting Bid: $15
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Laszlo Molnar
Hungary
Budapest
Hungary
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#42
nr. of plays: 2
The most fun and lightest game of those end-of-the-nineties Knizia games that have some mechanism connections to Acquire. of course it's also the most luck-dependent one, although the rule that allows you to place your knights next to already placed knights instead of the given number makes your strategies more flexible than it seems first (or than Acquire). I guess Rheinländer might be rated so (relatively) low only because it was released just after a bunch of heavier Knizia titles and gamers were expecting something meatier.
Related games: Reiner Knizia's take on acquiring and merging
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Andrew Fergus
United Kingdom
Par
Cornwall
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Face to Face Game edition. Played a couple of times from new. One small knock to top box edge.
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese & Korean !
Free shipping within the UK. Ship UK only.
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Titel: Rheinländer
Verlag: Hasbro
Sprache: deutsch
Zustand:
- Schachtel: leichte Lagerspuren an Ecken und Kanten
- Material: gut und komplett
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Christian Brunner
Germany
Neuching
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Edition: deutsche Ausgabe von Parker
Zustand: sehr gut
Kostenloser Versand in Deutschland!
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Brian Eggert
United States
Piscataway
New Jersey
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F2F version. Box has shelf wear and a few corner dings, contents are like new, cards still sealed, but rulebook is missing.
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Ben Draper
United States
Castro Valley
California
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Will add requisite info within next few hours.
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Chef D
United States
Newtonville
Massachusetts
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Face 2 Face Edition. Played once. Very good condition.
Starting Bid: $15
I will be at Unity from 9 until early evening.
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Laszlo Molnar
Hungary
Budapest
Hungary
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End of the year, no gaming club, no time and energy (not even for taking photos), not too many new releases. At least I could play some of my own unplayed games – save for the Dice Town extension all these new to me games were games that I own.
Rheinländer 2x
While Tigris & Euphrates takes one idea or two from Acquire, two 1999 Knizia games are really about 40% Acquire (the other one being Stephenson's Rocket). I wouldn't call them Acquire clones or "Knizia's Acquire" (Sorry John  ) but their connection to the Sid Sackson classic is obvious. Out of the 3 games the other two games are really deep, strategic and rather heavy. Rheinländer is quite light compared to them; it's not even that deep - but I'm not sure it's not the most fun of them.
First, I love some of the ideas - for example, the geometry of the two paralel lines with the potential to be connected near the end of the game, or that while you place the Knights to the places indicated by the cards, the "enforcement" rule makes it less luck-dependent and more strategic than Acquire in this sense. The fact that you don’t have shares here but clear majorities also makes it more fun and accessible for non-gamers. It's also a very Knizian twist that you need big duchies to be able to protect them, but in the end of the game the more duchies you have the more points you get... Stephenson's Rocket is a great (although a bit dry) game, T&E is a timeless classic but Rheinländer is so fun... that everyone demanded a replay when we tried it. We played it once again and everyone liked it. 7.6
Einauge sei wachsam! 1x
Captain One-Eye is a relatively unknown Kramer/Kiesling card game that is a bit overproduced for what it is (it comes in a Carcassonne-sized box while this could fit in a Kosmos 2-player box even if it's not a strictly 2-player game). It's a nice card game, nothing revolutionary or special but it plays fine (you can try it online at www.yucata.de). I don't say this will be played a lot in the coming years but it still has a potential to become a filler game that we bring to the table once in a while. 6.8
Mole Hill 1x
Mole Hill is a very short and light abstract filler game from Reiner Knizia from the ’90s when he was still experimenting with the classic checkered board and the classic abstract games. It’s a bit like Quoridor with one player moving the maul and the other one placing the walls (and then changing roles in the second half of the game). It’s nothing revolutionary or extra but still it was enjoyable and it seems the tactics of the gardener are not as obvious as it seems first. Right now I rate it only 6.5 but as soon as I start to find some of its possibilities it’s probable that I’m going to rate it higher.
Expansions:
Ticket to Ride Map Collection – Team Asia 1x
I have already rated François Valentyne’s Legendary Asia an 8 in October. But now, as we spent some quality time with family, I had the opportunity to play the Team Asia map (by Alan R. Moon) with family. And I must say that it’s not only the map that’s fine but this team play aspect brought back the feeling of my very first Ticket to Ride games. I still like playing Ticket to Ride but haven’t felt the first dozen play’s extreme excitement, enthusiasm and FUN in years. Team Asia brought this great feeling back. Even though you need exactly 4 or 6 players, I say Team Asia is the best Ticket to Ride game since 2005. 9
Ticket to Ride Map Collection – India 2x
I have played the Switzerland map years ago (luckily that was someone else’s copy). But now I bought this expansion and played Ian Vincent’s India. The Mandala scoring gives an interesting touch to the game. It makes the game rather cutthroat and cruel as intentions of making one large circle on the map are obvious. I'd say it makes it more of a gamers' game without having the extra rules complexity of Märklin, the other gamer-y entry in the series. Also it's one of the very few TtR maps without tunnels – it feels a bit drier than most maps (it can be felt that it’s not a Moon design) but it's a really strong one; I prefer this one over the other (very good) map contest winner, Legendary Asia. 8.3
Dice Town extension 1x
When I played Dice Town with the expansion, two players didn't really understand the text on the cards and two players played without thinking at all. The large luck factor combined with these people made this one a pure luck game that was also quite long. So I just can't tell if I have problems with this expansion (the game remains long, 6 players also make it longer, 6 players also means you're always going to take gold or money from Dr. Badluck; also quite often you get 2nd place reward so if you run out of money – which is easy here – then it's rather hard to get back in the game – as 6 players also means in most rounds the round ends after 1 or 2 re-throws). I didn’t like my one play, that’s sure. (Right now I’d say something like 5 but I’m not sure that would be fair).
Children’s game:
Orchard 3x
For Christmas my 3-year-old son got a board game present: Orchard. He already owns The Little Orchard which he likes and I also think that game is probably the most interesting game offered for 3-year-olds, using all their knowledge and creativity. So I bought the “big bother” for him – and quite interestingly, from an adult’s perspective, this one is a bit weaker. It's still great for this age and my son also enjoyed picking the 4 different fruits from the trees and creating the raven puzzle. But while the small version has a strong memory element and a little (very basic) deduction, this game is an almost pure luck dice roller. But well, I like playing 99% pure luck dice rollers with my son. 
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Tim Buckley
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Found this in the clearance section of my FLGS for $15 and when I saw that it was a Knizia game, I couldn't pass it up! I love many of his games on iOS so this was a no-brainer. Another one that needs to make its way to the table.
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Laszlo Molnar
Hungary
Budapest
Hungary
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On Monday I finished work for this year. So I had more time for playing!
On Tuesday, during the kids' daytime sleep, we tried Einauge sei wachsam!, a Kramer/Kiesling card game that is a bit overproduced for what it is (it comes in a Carcassonne-sized box while this could fit in a Kosmos 2-player box even if it's not a strictly 2-player game). It's a nice card game, nothing revolutionary or special but it plays fine. I don't say this will be played a lot in the coming years but it still has a potential to become a filler game that we bring to the table once in a while.
In the evening we played Ingenious, one of her favorite games twice. No wonder why: she won both games.
On Wednesday I had a day out - I visited a friend with two other buddies and we were playing all the day. Until the two other guys arrived we played two games. While this friend is a great card game player I frequently win Keltis: Das Kartenspiel against him - there is no explanation; he even wins this game against his wife all the time. But then he won our game of Carcassonne: The Castle - it was the first time we played it with the correct rules (collected tiles face up)! Actually I'm not sure I like this version more - this one is slightly bit more strategic as your opponent's motivations are more clear while playing the game with face-down tiles is slightly bit more fun. Anyway, it's still by far the greatest Carc game of them all.
Then, 4 players, we played with my copy of Rheinländer. While Tigris & Euphrates takes one idea or two from Acquire, two 1999 Knizia games are really about 40% Acquire (the other one being Stephenson's Rocket). I wouldn't call them Acquire clones or "Knizia's Acquire" but their connection to the Sid Sackson classic is obvious. Out of the 3 games the two other games are really deep, strategic and rather heavy. Rheinländer is quite light compared to them; it's not even that deep - but I'm not sure it's not the most fun of them. First, I love some of the ideas - for example, the geometry of the two paralel lines with the potential to be connected near the end of the game, or that while you place the Knights to the places indicated by the cards, the "enforcement" rule makes it less luck-dependent and more strategic than Acquire in this sense. It's also a very Knizian twist that you need big duchies to be able to protect them but in the end of the game the most duchies bring the most points... Stephenson's Rocket is a great (although a bit dry) game, T&E is a classic but Rheinländer is so fun... that everyone demanded a replay. We played it once again and everyone liked it.
Well, after this we played my copy of Amun-Re (I got both this and Rheinländer in Essen 2011) and I could (once again) see the difference between the appeal of a game like Rheinländer (not really a gateway but not a gamer's game either) and a gamer's game. I still think Amun-Re is great but it wasn't a big success with these (non-gamer) people. And we have analysed why - it became clear it must be the same reason why my wife doesn't like Ra. It is (also) a game that might have a nice bidding mechanism but all this is interesting only if it's perfectly clear for you how things are scored in the end. If you play without really knowing and feeling the endgame scoring, much of the tension of the game is lost, and without tension games aren't that interesting.
It should be noted that in the end of this day we played Metro which is an acceptable game at best but everyone said "...and Metro was great as always" in the end...
On Thursday I played Carcassonne: The Castle with my wife. She's won more than one C:TC games against the friend mentioned above so it felt good that I won this game now. 
On Saturday evening my son got a board game present: Orchard. He already owns The Little Orchard which he likes and I also think that game is probably the most interesting game offered for 3-year-olds, using all their knowledge and creativity. Quite interestingly, the original "big brother" is a bit weaker game. It's still great for this age and my son also enjoyed picking the 4 different fruits from the trees and creating the raven puzzle. But while the small version has a strong memory element and a little (very basic) deduction, this game is almost 99% pure luck dice roller. But well, I like playing 99% pure luck dice rollers with my son.
On Sunday morning my wife played the 99% pure luck dice roller with my son. Then we visited my in-laws. My mother-in-law liked Qwirkle so much this summer that she asked one as a present - now she got it and we played 4-player. And in the evening we played another 3 games of Ingenious in their home. The first two - 2-player - games (our 49th and 50th recorded games of Ingenious) ended in rather interesting logic puzzles where we analysed how and who can win the game - it was rather fun. For the third game my mother-in-law joined, rather surprised when she learned this is their copy that we took from the wardrobe (and they got this game some years ago as a present)...
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Ian Allen
United States
Madison
Alabama
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Parker Brothers
Reserve Price - $10
Buy It Now - $20
Sold - $15 - tobyjason
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Devi "Day" Hughes
United States
Irvine
California
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Opened, played a few times.
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Andrew Fergus
United Kingdom
Par
Cornwall
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Face to Face Game edition. Played a couple of times from new. One small knock to top box edge.
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese & Korean !
Free shipping within the UK. Ship UK only.
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Jared Paton
Canada
St. Catharines
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Excellent condition, components are unopened, box has some minor shelf wear.
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Gregg Prendergast
United States
Newton
New Jersey
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Brand new, still in shrinkwrap.
Will ship for free in the USA and will cover the first $10 elsewhere.
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George Rasmussen
United States
Clearwater
Florida
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NEW: Gameboard still in SHRINK WRAP. box in mint shape.
STARTING BID: $15
NO BIN
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Posted Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:08 pm
... oh well you can't win them all 
