Board game · 2010

Fresco

In Fresco, players are master painters working to restore a fresco in a Renaissance church. Each round begins with players deciding what time they would like to wake up for the day. The earlier you wake up, the earlier you will…

Players: 2 to 4
Duration: 60 min
Age: 10 and up
Complexity: Family

Wolfgang Panning · Marco Ruskowski · Marcel Süßelbeck · Queen Games

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01 Déroulement du jeu 00:00 02 Choix de l'heure de levée 00:21 03 Modification de l'humeur 02:10 04 Programmation des actions 04:06 05 Actions possibles 04:51 06 Réalisation des actions 05:17 07 Choix au Marché 05:45 08 Réfection de la cathédrale 08:20 09 Position de l’évêque 09:51 10 Placement sur la ligne des point de victoire 10:23 11 Repeindre l'autel (2 fois la même remarque) 11:54 12 Atelier du peintre 13:32 13 Mélange des couleurs 13:43 14 Le théâtre 14:31 15 Finir le tour de jeu 15:10 16 Récapitulation du tour 16:06 17 Condition de fin de jeu 16:54 18 Décompte des points 17:39 19 Conclusion 18:00
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In Fresco, players are master painters working to restore a fresco in a Renaissance church.

Each round begins with players deciding what time they would like to wake up for the day. The earlier you wake up, the earlier you will be in turn order, and the better options you will be guaranteed to have. Wake up early too often, however, and your apprentices will become unhappy and stop working as efficiently. They would much rather sleep in!

Then, players decide their actions for the turn, deploying their apprentice work force to various tasks. You'll need to buy paint, mix paint, work on painting the fresco, raise money (which you'll need to buy the aforementioned paint!) by painting portraits, and perhaps even send your apprentices to the opera in order to increase their happiness. Points are scored mostly by painting the fresco, which requires specific combinations of paints, so you'll need to buy and mix your paints wisely, in addition to beating other players to the paints and fresco segments you would like to paint.

Fresco includes several expansion modules, so you can play without expansions for a lighter family game or add in expansions to vary play and increase the decision-making and difficulty, resulting in a very flexible game with a high replay value.

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