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Collect news and collate yor newspaper

As editor-in-chief of a newspaper you fight for headlines and stories. On your own board you must assemble title page, back page or middle page of the newspaper, depending on the chosen scenario. To take a story from the Editor’s table you discard News cards showing the necessary number of manuscript and photo icons, all cards must have the same topic, that is, the same color. For the acquisition of those cards you place your meeples as reporters on the News area on the main board - which represents a newspaper office in San Francisco with areas of Sources, Operations and Editor’s desk - in order to collect News cards from six different cities: New York, London, Paris, Rom. Berlin und Tokyo.

You play in rounds that are comprised of Phases: Refresh Newsdesk & Morgue - you draw cards depending on the number of players and add them to the cities; Refresh the Newswire - you discard, relocate and add News Cards; Sell New Cards (in the first round only), Collect Income / Pay Salaries - you receive 400 $ and pay 100 $ to each reporter that you employ; if you cannot pay a reporter you put him back into your personal stock and must recruit him again if you want to use him again; Play Stringers - you can discard a reporter for News; Place Reporters for lots of action options, Activate Reporters and End of Round. Stories, headlines and advertisements earn you Circulation points and you win with most of them.

Basically a standard worker placement game with a few interesting twists from topic and detail mechanisms, for instant paying to remove a meeple from a position or use stringers to receive news directly from a city.

Players: 2-6

Age: 14+

Time: 240+

Designer: Andrew Bond

Artist: Mark Zug, Vicki Paull

Price: ca. 85 Euro

Publisher: Mayfair Games 2015

Web: www.mayfairgames.com

Genre: Worker placement

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Rare, interesting topic

Lots of option for reporter placement

Many scenarios to choose from

Rules not optimal

Compares to:

Worker placement games, topic very rare

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0