Cover art for Aldabas: Doors of Cartagena

Aldabas: Doors of Cartagena

2022 · BGG
Avg rating
6.70
Bayes rating
5.57
Weight
2.17 (Medium Light)
Players
1-4
Playtime
45 min
Ratings count
153

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Description

In Cartagena, Colombia, the doors speak. Not with words, but with the grandiose knockers that adorn them. In Spanish colonial times, the knockers announced your job and your social status with the design and detail. Lions, lizards, sea creatures, and hands proclaimed the homes' occupants as soldiers, nobles, fishermen, and clergy.

Aldabas is a puzzley tableau-builder in which you you seek to fill your neighborhood with the most influential citizens. On each turn, players will take actions to build their neighborhood or increase their wealth. Clever placement will unlock bonuses, but only if you build in the right way.

Those who keep the best company (and the fullest coffers) will surely be held in highest regard.

—description from the publisher



Mechanics

Hand Management

Themes

None recorded

Publishers

Grand Gamers Guild

Designers

Joshua J Mills Nathaniel Levan