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Rating: 6.9 Good
Popularity:69
Difficulty:Easy
Year:2008
Players: 2-4 players
Playing time: 60-90 minutes
Age:10+

Official Site: Webpage at Hans im Glück Verlags-GmbH Publisher


Created by: Bernd Brunnhofer, Michael Menzel

Published by: Hans im Glück Verlags-GmbH, 999 Games, Bard Centrum Gier

Alternate Names: 100000 лет до нашей эры, L'Âge de Pierre, Doba kamenná, Epoka Kamienia, Stenen Tijdperk

Description:

Stone Age is a worker placement game in which the players have to place their workers wisely in order to gain most victory points.

In Stone Age, the players have to hunt, collect wood, break stone, make tools or wash their gold from the river. In every turn you choose where your people gather the resources you’ll need to build your civilization and win the game. Because you have up to 10 tribe members and also the spaces at each location are limited, you have to do it wisely.

There are three phases. In the first phase, players place their people on different locations on the board. In the 2nd phase, the players collect their resources and in the 3rd phase, players must have enough food available to feed their population. If not, they will lose resources or victory points.

When a player send people to the hut, he can 'generate' more tribe members. This results that you have more to feed. For this, you can send people to hunt for food or send one to improve your food production. Also useful, is to send people to the tool area to improve the future dice roll results.

Because you have to roll dice to gather resources, there is an element of luck. Know that the more people you place in a location, the more dice you can roll. That also means you will have less people to send to other locations on the map.

The player can use the collected resources to build buildings or buy special cards to gain victory points.

When the game is over, all player scores points for different things like food production, tools, cards or buildings. These points are multiplied by the the number of civilization cards that match with that value. This mechanic pushes players to specialize, but also to balance their play. Because all player's cards are facedown, you are never able to say who will win the game until the game is over.

The civilization cards give you also bonuses that happen immediately like extra resources, tools and an advance on the agriculture track.

This board game is a great way to introduce new players to the worker placement genre, though newcomers should be aware that there is a small learning curve to overcome.

The game is not too demanding and this makes it a nice, light and entertaining game for rookie and experienced players. There is some math involved when rollong the dice to see how many of each resources you get. The game is recommend 13+ but also younger kids are able to play it. They can even train their basic math skills.

Even for hardcore gamers, Stone Age still offers enough of strategies and tactics to be interesting. Stone Age balance well between strategy and luck and this makes it great for a family board game.

Each game takes about 60 till 90 minutes and it can be played by 2-4 players. When it's played by four players, it's definitely more challenging and the best strategy is not as obvious as when played by two players. Especially as last player, it's harder to gather your resources on that turn. Players have to adjust their strategy because of this.

Stone Age has a gorgeous look. All components are well made. The colorful main board, the wooden resources, and even the wooden dice add to the look and feel of this game.

Prices:
Retail Price:$72
Amazon:$68
Ebay:$98
Expansions:
Schmuck und Handel (fan expansion for Stone Age)
Stone Age: Casino
Stone Age: The Expansion
Stone Age: The New Huts
Awards:
Ludoteca Ideale Official Selection 2010
Vuoden Peli Adult Game of the Year Nominee 2009
Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee 2009
JoTa Best Family Board Game Nominee 2009
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Components

  • 1 game board
  • 4 player boards
  • 58 wooden resources
  • 40 wooden people
  • 8 wooden markers in 2 sizes
  • 53 food tiles
  • 28 building tiles
  • 18 tool tiles
  • 1 start player figure
  • 36 civilization cards
  • 7 dice
  • 1 leather dice cup
  • 1 information sheet

Setup

  1. Place the game board in the table middle.

  2. Separate the food tiles by value and place in stacks on the hunting grounds.

  3. Place the 20 wood resources in the forest, 16 brick resources in the clay pit, 12 stone resources in the quarry and 10 gold resources in the river.

  4. Separate the tools by values 1/2 and 3/4 and place them in two stacks in the space next to the tool maker. …



A player keeps all cards which he acquires on his player board until the end of the game.

All cards are divided into two parts:

Top: The player takes the item shown on the top immediately when he takes the card.

Bottom: The player scores what is shown on the bottom during final scoring.

Bottom Part

During the final scoring, each player multiplies the number of different card by itself and adds extras.

There are 16 cards with green background, with 8 different culture symbols, twice each. And there are 20 cards with a sand-colored background. …



  1. Do not neglect the civilization cards! Apart from the immediate gain of resources, food, and so on, they can earn a player many points during final scoring.

  2. Collect the civilization cards with the final scoring in mind. A wide selection of cards is usually not as effective as cards which work together.

    If you plan to add people to your player board, you must also plan increased food production to feed them. If you work this strategy properly, at game end you will have many people and your food marker wil be high on the food track. …



Components

  • 1 game board
  • 4 settlements
  • 4 player markers
  • 4 player figures
  • 20 goods
  • 15 hut tokens
  • 2 dog tokens
  • 14 forest tokens
  • rulebook

Jono and Jada, the Stone Age Children

In the Stone Age, 10,000 years ago, people lived life very differently than they do today.

They worked hard building simple huts, hunting, and gathering berries and mushrooms to eat.

They lived their lives surrounded by nature. When the sun went down, they would gather around the fire for light and warmth.

During this time, there was a little a boy named Jono. He had shaggy blond hair and was quite strong for his age. Jono had an older sister named Jada. She had the same knobbly nose as her brother. Jono and Jada were inseparable. …



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