Paris – La Cite de la Lumiere (City of Light)

Paris is a two-player board game by Jose Antonio Abascal, the game is infused with Parisian aesthetics from the boardgame’s artist Oriol Hernández. The game is set in late 19th century Paris during the 1889 “Exposition Universelle,” or world’s fair, when public electricity was a hot topic. Electricity spread throughout the city, creating today’s beautiful nocturnal Parisian streets and coining Paris’s nickname “La Cite de la Lumiere”, the city of lights.
The most well-lit buildings are admired more highly by passers-by. In the first phase of the game players can either place tiles or grow their collection of buildings. The cobblestone tiles are divided into 4 random spaces, being their colour, their opponents’ colour, a streetlight or a mixed-colour space where either player can build.
In the second phase of the game, players build on top of their colour or the mixed spaces. This is done so to position their buildings as close to as many streetlights as possible. More streetlights solicit more adoration and points. The player with the best lit buildings steals the hearts of Parisian pedestrians and wins the game.
Player Count: 2
Time: 30 minutes
Age: 8+