MINE A MILLION - VINTAGE BOARDGAME

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But because you’re a mining company and not a transport company you have to hire these lorries, and there’s a limited supply. game and methodology for teamwork facilitation (planning, problem solving, improving performance etc.

So once the ore starts flowing you can take great delight in hiring more lorries than you need and leaving your opponents with ore piling up at their pitheads and grinding their teeth in frustration while they worry about an event card coming up that’ll destroy unsold ore on the board. Before you can go on the canals you need to set up a canal company, and that takes a sizable investment of capital which no-one will have at the start. The playing board appears to be made of Bakelite and small wooden sticks are used to keep track of your plays. Before exporting by sea, a player needs to have acquired sufficient money (sterling) to pay for the transport rental during the sea journey. Barges can carry more ore than a lorry and the canal spaces they move through mean they have a shorter route to the warehouse than lorries do, and they can also sail across the sea to sell your ore for dollars.

But if you can’t pay it at all you have to sell your ore direct from the pithead for an absolute pittance compared to what you’d get for moving it to port and that’s a complete disaster: you’ve suddenly got no ore, no dollars and hardly any bloody pounds to get your operation back on its feet again. Given that players can loose vast amount of ore into the abyss thanks to sudden unforeseen events or can have their ore constantly stranded at a pithead or stolen or diverted by the other players, it follows that this might take a while.

Perhaps Waddingtons were seeking ride the coat-tails of Monopoly, or maybe trying to make the game sound like a classy, upmarket pass-time for merchant bankers. Join the community and come discuss games like Codenames, Wingspan, Brass, and all your other favorite games! com Limited is an Appointed Representative of Compare The Market Limited who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. com Limited is an Introducer Appointed Representative of CarMoney Limited who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, FRN 674094.If the latter then it’s a serious mistake because it is, in fact, one the nastiest, trashiest mass-market games around which, in spite of some flaws, can be a ton of fun to play.

They each start with one cool little plastic drilling rig on the map board and they start each turn by rolling a dice: on a one or a six their rig produces some ore and they have to take a random event card. In the long lost days before I was a fully paid up member of the board gaming cognoscenti, but still a keen gamer, I spent a lot of time playing mass-market board games with my non-gaming friends. Having a queue of face up events to make it a bit more strategic, for example, or simply reducing the winning post to make the game a bit shorter.com Limited, registered in England and Wales with number 03934849, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom. A further unit is produced each time the player rolls a one or a six; this can be increased to three units should the player purchase an additional mining rig (or "working"). The Game is Complete and the Contents are Unplayed as the Production Units are still sealed in their Bags. I have found Panamax but that may be too heavy and Black Gold looks like it fits the theme but may be far too cutthroat for casual gamers.