2016 · City Building

Doodle China

This roll-and-write game includes two cities. In Suzhou, players draft dice to determine where they may draw, building networks of canals that connect houses, parks, markets, and ships. Shanghai uses the same dice-drafting system on a 6×6 grid, with skyscrapers, hotels, and new scoring rules. Players develop skyscrapers by adding floors or replacing them with roads, score hotels according to the roads passing through them, and mark claimed point values so each can be scored only once. Parks can provide flexible placement at the cost of trees, and players score additional points for large taxi and bus networks at the end.

groupPlayers

1–5 best 5

schedulePlaying time

20–40 min

cakeAge

8+

psychologyComplexity

2 / 5