Board game · 2006

Leonardo da Vinci

Players: 2 to 5
Duration: 90 min
Age: 12 and up
Complexity: Family

Acchittocca · Flaminia Brasini · Virginio Gigli · Stefano Luperto · Antonio Tinto · DV Games

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Area Majority / Influence Auction / Bidding Contracts Hand Management Worker Placement Industry / Manufacturing Renaissance

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01 Intro 00:00 02 How to Play — Setup 02:59 03 How to Play — Goals & Broad Concepts 10:57 04 How to Play — Directing Your Laboratories 12:03 05 How to Play — Assigning Your Workers 13:50 06 How to Play — Resolving Your Workers 16:33 07 How to Play — Completing Inventions 24:44 08 How to Play — End of Round & End of Game 28:16 09 Is It a Gem? 30:06 10 Brief Comparison with Codex Leicester 41:07
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01 Intro 00:00 02 Setup 00:20 03 Big Picture 10:39 04 Assigning Projects to your Workshops 11:06 05 Placing your Workers 14:14 06 Examples of Evaluating Locations 17:35 07 End of the Round 23:01 08 Differences in Later Rounds 23:49 09 Other Details 25:20 10 End-Game Scoring 29:59
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In brief

Theme: Florence, fifteenth century. The inventors of the Renaissance created amazing machines for the Lord of the city. Become the protagonist of this age of unbelievable discoveries by realizing your inventions! You'll direct your team into the laboratories, workshops, among the shops and perhaps learn the intrigues of the palace. Only the best can rival the great Leonardo!

Summary: A worker-placement game for 2-5 players with an interesting bidding mechanic. In many other worker-placement games, if an opponent beats you to a spot, you're out of luck. Not so in Leonardo de Vinci. Here, you can bid more workers to jump ahead in line. And people at the back of the line, can still get something, but they have to pay more to get it. The competition for resources is very dynamic and fun.

Your same workers that compete for resources may also power your laboratory, so you must balance acquiring resources with working in the laboratory so that you can complete inventions and not run out of Florins (i.e. manage cash-flow).

The key is planning your resources and production capacity to maximize the number of inventions you can make and therefore maximize the amount of Florins you can earn. The last two rounds of the game require extra careful planning because new resources cannot be acquired.

Meta: A "gamers' game" by Acchittocca (a team of Italian game designers). Nr. 1 in the QWG Master Print Edition series

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