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GeekList: My Quest for the Civ-Lite Holy Grail - Share Your Own Journey

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Barteus Maximus

(barteus)

United States
Parsons
Kansas

Vinci came next. You don't control a specific race, but you have two unique technologies. Vinci features your civ expanding and declining, but there is no economic aspect and military is a very basic one-for-one mechanic. Again, not Civ-Lite, but a good game to play.

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Posted Tue Apr 3, 2012 8:47 pm

GeekList: April 2012 Benelux Math Trade [EU]

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Richard Rutten

(Blind Reality)

Netherlands
Nijmegen

the spunk plus the bomb plus the pump plus the torture instrument times frankie equalling the bang is an exclusive piece of ZTT exploitation

You don't need eyes to see, you need vision. (mj)

1999 Descartes German language edition
Language dependency: low
Condition: good
Free shipping

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Posted Wed Apr 4, 2012 8:19 am

GeekList: Testing the Percentages - A Games Only Math Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

(Ophryon)

United States
Central Point
Oregon

Edition: Descartes 1st edition, English. 1st edition map verified. Home-printout of 2nd edition rules included.

Game Condition: Played but in good condition. Map has minor scuffing in the ocean quadrant over the compass rose (not in the map areas where you actually play). All other components verified complete.

Box Condition: Good condition, no damage, but starting to show wear at corners and some edges.

Shipping: Free USPS Priority shipping within the USA to all 50 states and I will pay the first $10 outside the USA.

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Posted Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:43 am

GeekList: Testing the Percentages - A Games Only Math Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

William Wood

(mst3k4ever)

Canada
Toronto
Ontario

First English edition (as verified by map). Opened but super clean and complete. Includes photocopies of player aids.

Free shipping in Canada; first $10 elsewhere.

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Posted Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:41 am

GeekList: Mad as a March Hare Math Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

William Wood

(mst3k4ever)

Canada
Toronto
Ontario

First English edition (as verified by map). Opened but super clean and complete. Includes photocopies of player aids.

Free shipping in Canada; first $10 elsewhere.

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Posted Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:43 am

GeekList: March 2012 European Maths Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Jeremy

(praxy)

United Kingdom
Malmesbury
Wiltshire

Descartes French Edition. Good condition.

Free shipping in EU.

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Posted Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:33 pm

GeekList: Mispronounced Board Game Names

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Barteus Maximus

(barteus)

United States
Parsons
Kansas

I pronounce this "winky" (hard "c"s in ancient latin, "v"s are a soft w sound), although my fellow gamers usually look at me strangely until I bring out the game and then they say "oh, yeah".

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Posted Sat Mar 3, 2012 10:39 pm

Michael Stone

(stoneart69)

United States
San Antonio
Texas

Vin Chee or vin C

Posted Sun Mar 4, 2012 3:35 am
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Patrick Carroll

(Patrick Carroll)

United States
Carver
Minnesota

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." (GK Chesterton)

"That's how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)

franklincobb wrote:

stoneart69 wrote:

Vin Chee or vin C

Yep. Dear lord, please don't call this great game "WINKY." That makes it sound like a euphemism for your penis.

"You guys want me to bring out Winky?"

"Noooo! Noooooo! Esss too sexy!"

Yeah. When the game was revised into Small World, they were thinking of calling it Dinky Winky.

Posted Sun Mar 4, 2012 5:23 pm
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Jason Novak

(jaynova)

United States
Cleveland
Ohio

franklincobb wrote:

stoneart69 wrote:

Vin Chee or vin C

Yep. Dear lord, please don't call this great game "WINKY." That makes it sound like a euphemism for your penis.

"You guys want me to bring out Winky?"

"Noooo! Noooooo! Esss too sexy!"

"But I must."

Posted Sun Mar 4, 2012 7:09 pm
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Matteo Targa

(DarkShine)

Italy

Yes Sir,
Vin Chee, V is like in "Velvet"

Posted Sun Mar 4, 2012 8:35 pm
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Philip Clayberg

(Felimid)

United States
Arlington
Virginia

DarkShine wrote:

V is like in "Velvet"

And B is like in "Blue".

Posted Sat Mar 10, 2012 11:11 pm
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GeekList: Gathering of Friends XXIII Math Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Floyd Sherrod

(fhsIV)

United States
Sharpsburg
Georgia

Comments: Somehow I ended up with two copies of this game, so the better of the two can be yours!

Publisher/Edition/Language: Descartes English First Edition

Condition: This item is opened, but unpunched and unplayed. Aside from the smallest of dings in the top left corner of the box (you have to look hard to notice it), this game is in excellent, like new condition.

Shipping: n/a

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Posted Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:19 pm

GeekList: The Great Boardgame Purge: The Finale

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Curt Carpenter

(curtc)

United States

Washington

I prefer the look of Vinci over Small World, but I prefer Smallworld's segmentatoin of attributes into race/class. I also prefer SmallWorld's closed scoring, but that's more a function of the people I played with who insist on attacking whoever currently has the most points. But we solved that in Vinci by using mini poker chips in plastic cups. But I sold them both.

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Posted Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:39 am

GeekList: GameStorm 2012 Math Trade - Trade List

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Dave L.

(Emile)

United States
Portland
Oregon

German edition, cover art as shown, map art same as English 2nd edition. Punched but unplayed. Includes printout of English rules and translation of civilization counters.

EDIT - sorry forgot to add that the box has minor shelfwear

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Edited Thu Mar 8, 2012 4:58 pm
Posted Thu Mar 8, 2012 5:04 am

GeekList: Toronto Area No Ship Math Trade XXV

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

mateen

(slinkydink)

Canada
Toronto
Ontario

Raks Raks Raks

The first English edition, as pictured. Complete and in great condition.

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Posted Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:47 pm

GeekList: Ancient/Historic Empire Builders of the Modern Era - A Critical Comparison

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Oliver Kiley

(Mezmorki)

United States
Ann Arbor
Michigan

Year Published: 1999

Num. of Players: 3-6
Recommended Players: 3,4,5
Typical Playtime: 90 min.
Weight: 2.8

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Posted Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:46 am

Jason Farris

(Smilinbrax)

United States
Fair Oaks
California

There is a duck in every game. You may not see it, but it's there.

Objective / Scoring: Scoring is completed at the end of every turn. You score one point for every nonmountain territory you control at the end of the round plus any bonus points you have for your civilizations. Com civs allow you to score mountains, other allow you to score points based on how many pieces you eliminate in a turn. There are many ways to score.

Game End: The game end is triggered by a predertimined number of points, based on the number of players, being reach and then the round is concluded so everyone has the same amount of turns.

Taking Actions: On a plyers tiurn they may end their turn, score their current civ and take a new civilization or take a normal turn. An normal turn consists of taking any number of their pieces off the board and then attacking other players from a territory adjacent to one where they have a piece. They can continue to attack unitl they choose to stop or they run out of pieces to use. Then the player may distribute any unsued pieces or ones from territories they choose to abandon among the territories they control to act as a defense against other players' aggression.

Exploration: There is no exploration

Movement: Movement is largely irrelevant as you can pick up pieces at will. You do have to maintain a contigous civ or lose the smaller of the two parts that are cut off. The only real board movement is accomplished by taking territory as you can immediately attack out of conquered territory.

Development: There is little devleopment. you have a finite number of troops to start and you can only get more if you have certain civ combinations. thus your civlizations days are numbered from the beginning. eventually you cannot defend or expand more and this forces you to get a new civ.

Resources: There are no resources per se. There are territories that will score more points based on your civs specilizations but you never collect a resource, just get points for controlling it. expansion is entirely through combat. you have to defeat the initial neutral civ pieces when you first come on the board andf then you spend the rest of the game eliminating your opponents pieces.

Technology: Technology consists of a pair of tiels that indicate what you cvilization does well. You add up two numbers on the pieces to find out how many pieces your civ starts with and you will get special powers from each tile in the civ. The only exception is the barbarians tile as its special power is that it gets the most pieces to start with.

Conflict: battles are simple and detemrinistic. when attacking, you put 2 pieces down for the territory, one for each opposing piece on the territory, and, one more if it is a forest, and one more if it is a mountain. you automatically conquer the space if you can place that many pieces in the territory. the opponent removes all but one piece which is removed from the board as a casualty. The attacckeer cannot use the pieces for any more atttacks but cna rearrange them in defense at the end of the turn. any opponents with defeated armies can also put them down in defense at the end of the turn.

Politics: No trading or real negotiation but highly political. VPs are opne information so you will often be trying to convince others to pick on the leader and not you, unless you are the leader. Then you will tryto get thme to pick on the one who will become the leader if they pick on you.

Luck: The only luck in the game is how the civs come out but this is mediated by your ability to pay to get a better civ if a weaker one is in front of you. your payment then acts as a bribe for someone else to pick the weaker civ eventually as you vp payment becomes their vps if they choose it.

Vinci was a very unique game that allowed you to have a civ feel and combat without having to play for hours. It reminds me of a light and super fast history of the world. however, small world, a lighter/gutted version of vinci is now available with the same mechanics. I think small world is like a sugary snack, short adrenaline rush but leaves you feeling empty afterward. it is certainly a more consumer accepted game but I think Vinci is the better game overall.

Posted Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:25 pm
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GeekList: Spring Training Math Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

William Wood

(mst3k4ever)

Canada
Toronto
Ontario

First English edition (as verified by map). Opened but super clean and complete. Includes photocopies of player aids.

Free shipping in Canada; first $10 elsewhere.

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Posted Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:26 am

GeekList: Spring Training Math Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Mark Tyler

(m_r_tyler)

United States
Orem
Utah

Condition: 1999 English language edition and published by Descartes Editeur. Complete and in very good shape.

Shipping: Free shipping within United States. No shipping anywhere else.

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Posted Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:21 am

GeekList: Spring Training Math Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

(Ophryon)

United States
Central Point
Oregon

Edition: Descartes 1st edition, English. 1st edition map verified. Home-printout of 2nd edition rules included.

Game Condition: Played but in good condition. Map has minor scuffing in the ocean quadrant over the compass rose (not in the map areas where you actually play). Not sure how it got there - I believe that was where we used to put the civ counters, so it saw some counter sliding action. Not a huge flaw, just wanted to mention it. All other components verified complete.

Box Condition: Good condition, no damage, but starting to show wear at corners and some edges.

Shipping: Free USPS Priority shipping within the USA; however, the level of packaging will vary with distance. Within 1-4 postal zones of Southern Oregon (generally the west coast, with some of Idaho, Utah, and Nevada) this will ship in a large box with ample room for bubble-wrap and packing peanuts all around. Further away (including AK and HI), it may ship in a USPS medium flat rate box, which leaves room for bubble wrap all around except two sides. Selecting this for trade means you are comfortable with that degree of protection. Free tracking number in all cases.

International Shipping: I will pay the first $11 of shipping outside the USA and can adjust the degree of packaging at your request, depending on whether weight or padding is more your concern.

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Posted Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:46 pm

GeekList: Norwegiangeek's Reddit Only Math Trade

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Adam Blinkinsop

(blinks)

United States
Bothell
Washington

Edition pictured, good condition.

Used when I got it.

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Posted Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:39 am

GeekList: Games Played WABA Mount Claremont February 11th 2012

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Alicia Smith

(leece)

Australia
Unspecified
Unspecified

This is the game upon which Small World is based and I thought we'd bring it and let the Small World players see how it compared.

The differences in the rules were explained quickly and as quickly understood. I trailed by about 10 points for most of the game but made up a decent amount of pointage. Still last place though.

I think Rob won? It was a close thing though. With Vinci the 6 player game ends when 100 points are reached, and when the turn finishes for everyone, it's most past the post. So at the end there was a lot of frantic calculation to try and get past Rob's score.

It was a good, solid game.

Photos of the final scores will be up shortly. Now, who was playing? Me, Rob, ariaflame (Elaine), Renato, Craig and mezzomaniac I think?

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Posted Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:40 am

Renato Bruno

(renza22)

Australia
Perth
Western Australia

Thanks for bringing this game. Much meatier game than Small World and I like the gameplay much better. Makes Smallworld feel more like a filler game after this one!

Posted Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:42 am
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Alicia Smith

(leece)

Australia
Unspecified
Unspecified

renza22 wrote:

Thanks for bringing this game. Much meatier game than Small World and I like the gameplay much better. Makes Smallworld feel more like a filler game after this one!

I also prefer it to Small World, it's a lot more satisfying. I wonder if the Club would be interesting in finding itself a copy, with so many Small World players about it would quite popular I think.

Posted Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:07 am
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Greg Colgan

(Breaker)

Australia
Perth
WA

Sheeesh.....! The one month I can't attend, this comes up.....AND Petersburg. Perhaps a March reprise.........

Posted Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:12 pm
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Alicia Smith

(leece)

Australia
Unspecified
Unspecified

I'll bring it next month.

Posted Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:09 am
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GeekList: Greek Guild's Games For Sale

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

(leandros)

Greece
thessaloniki

κατασταση: πολυ καλη

τιμη: 20 ευρω

εκδοση: φωτο

αποστολη: μόνο Θεσσαλονικη

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Posted Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:32 pm

GeekList: Februari 2012 Benelux Math Trade [EU]

Board Game: Vinci [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:225]

Luc VC

(Wolfshade)

Belgium
Brugge
West-vlaanderen

The box lid has one split corner.
For the rest in excellent condition.

Language Dependence : Some necessary German text (on counters)

Free shipping in the Benelux (Kiala or TNT)