Speakeasy Blues details
- Designer: Adrian Adamescu, Daryl Andrews
- Artists: Don Whitson, Heiko Günther
- Publishers: Artana
- Release Date: 2018
- Player count : 2 - 4
- Age range : 14+
- Time range : 45 minutes
- Mechanism(s): Dice Rolling, Set Collection, Take That, Worker Placement, Worker Placement with Dice Workers
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Speakeasy Blues brings players back to 1920s Prohibition Era New York City when hooch smuggling, mobsters, dirty cops and the rich and famous ruled the nights. In order to make your mark as well as your fortune, you’ll need to create the most prestigious speakeasy of the time before the 18th Ammendment is repealed.
Collect expensive items such as yachts or cars to prove your worth. Invite in well known historical figures of society of the time to class up the joint. Make deals with mobsters while being careful to hide them from view during classy soires lest they detract from your reputation. Do favors for dirty cops to add to your set collection as well as to allow you to bust any mobsters on the attack from competing hooch vending entrepreneurs.
Of course, there is Jazz to liven up the night and add bonuses to your action selections as well as Soires to provide additional cash flow and reputation to your gin joint. So roll the dice, draft a set for worker placement and enjoy a strategic and thematic delve into the high society, law breaking, liquor driven endeavors of the time. May the most hoppin’ and shakin’ speakeasy win!
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