Euro Games Trivia

1. "I'll trade you wood for sheep?" Trading (and negotiation) is common in the popular winner from 1995 where players race to be the first to 10 points.

From Quiz Award Winning Tabletop Games

Answer: Catan

Although originally called "The Settlers of Catan", the name was shortened to simply "Catan" with the release of the game's 5th edition.

From Quiz Board Games Named After Cities

Answer: Bruges

Set in the Belgian city, 'Bruges' (also know as Brugge or Brügge) is a board game that was notoriously hard to get due to it being out of print. The board game was reimplemented in 2022 by Queen Games under the name 'Hamburg' - another board game named after a city!

From Quiz Concordia: Balearica (Board Game)

Answer: Rondel

A rondel is a series of available actions arrayed in a circle, with a player token moving around the circle. Players need to plan a few turns ahead based on what actions are next available in the rondel. Mac Gerdts is known as one of the few designers to make extensive use of the rondel, making it a primary feature of both his "Antike" and "Imperial" series of board games.

From Quiz Concordia: Venus (Board Game)

Answer: Having provinces with multiple houses

In the individual game, Venus cards grant two points for each province in which a player has at least two houses. In the team game, Venus cards grant one point for each province in which the player and their team mate both have a house. A lot of card scoring methods encourage players to spread out as much as possible. The Venus scoring offers a more compact way to score points.

From Quiz Concordia (Board Game) Map Expansions

Answer: There are separate starting cities for sea and land colonists

The "Britannia / Germania" map expansion was released in 2014, one year after the base game. The Britannia map has two capital cities: Portus Itius and Londinium. Portus Itius is on the French coast and has only sea routes connecting it, so all sea colonists start there. Londinium is land-locked (there is no route along the Thames river), so all land colonists start there. Unlike most "Concordia" maps that have a capital city in the relative middle, the Britannia map's capital cities are in the south east, meaning everyone has to expand in roughly the same direction.

From Quiz Concordia: Salsa (Board Game)

Answer: Salt is a wildcard resource

Salt is a wild resource. Technically, it becomes a different, appropriate resource when it is used. In the base game, players started with one of each resource, plus an additional food. This allowed them to build one brick city, and one city of any type if they played an Architect as their first card (a common first play). When playing with salt, players start with one of each of the now six resources (no second food), so players can use that salt to be a second brick, allowing them to build in two non-brick cities on their first turn.

From Quiz Concordia (Board Game)

Answer: Food

Players all have storehouses with 12 slots in them in which resources can be stored. Initially, four of those slots are occupied by colonists. In order to make more room in the storehouse, players will need to buy more colonists, moving them from the storehouse to the board. There is an alternate start to "Concordia" included in the "Historical Information" booklet (not the rule book) in which players start with more money and no resources. On their first turn, they can purchase any number of any kind of good to start their game with more flexibility. The "Historical Information" booklet was not included in the "Concordia: Venus" version of the base game.

From Quiz Istanbul: Trading in the Grand Bazar

Answer: Rudiger Dorn

Rudiger Dorn was born in 1969. His first game "Cameo" was published in 1992. "Istanbul" was published in 2014 and was awarded the Kennerspiel des Jahres for it. Dorn was also nominated for various awards for his games "Jambo", "Arkadia", "Karuba" and "Luxor". Daviau, Stegmaier and Borg are all American game designers.

From Quiz Pandemic: The Board Game

Answer: Matt Leacock

"Pandemic" was designed by Matt Leacock and published by Z-Man Games in 2008. As with many of Matt Leacock's games, "Pandemic" is a cooperative rather than competitive game, which means that the players are competing against the game not each other. "Pandemic" was a 2009 nominee for the Spiel des Jahres Award for Game of the Year. Matt Leacock's other games include "Forbidden Island" and "Forbidden Desert". Of the other designers, Elizabeth Hargrave designed "Wingspan", Antoine Bauza designed "7 Wonders", and Susan McKinley Ross designed "Qwirkle".

From Quiz Blokus

Answer: Corner to corner.

Tiles of the same color must only touch the corner of another piece of the same color. However, tiles of a different color may touch side to side.

From Quiz Cosmic Encounters

Answer: 5

Each player begins play with twenty ships, distributed evenly among the five planets in his/her home solar system. In order to win the game, a player must establish five colonies on planets in the other players' solar systems.

From Quiz Award Winning Tabletop Games

Answer: Just One

Help your teammates guess the correct word by writing just one word on your whiteboard. Try to be unique though because duplicate words get erased and are not displayed to the guessing player!

From Quiz Board Games Named After Cities

Answer: Carcassonne

Carcassonne was released in 2000 and the world has expanded mightily since. There are at least 10 official expansions released for the game which add everything from the ability to support an extra player, to bringing the circus to town!

From Quiz Concordia: Balearica (Board Game)

Answer: Prefect

The resource tiles assigned to each province are replaced with the new fish tokens. When using a Prefect to produce in a province players still receive resources for any houses they have in cities in the province, but instead of getting the bonus resource, they instead add a fish token to their storehouse. Four of the ten actions in the fish market are to exchange a fish for a resource, so if players need a particular resource, they can still easily get it.

From Quiz Concordia: Venus (Board Game)

Answer: Copies the last card the player used

In base "Concordia," the Diplomat lets players copy each others' cards. The Magister lets players copy their own most recent card. Just adding this one extra card offers players more flexibility. The only caveat is that the Magister cannot be used to copy a Senator, so players cannot reliably set up two turns in a row of buying new cards.

From Quiz Concordia (Board Game) Map Expansions

Answer: Tribune

In every "Concordia" game, there is one resource tile associated with each province, which is flipped with a Prefect action. Because of the way "Concordia" is set up, which tiles are used is not consistent, meaning there are many extras included with the game. The Germania map makes use of these extra tiles by having Roman forts. After placing tiles for the provinces, ten more tiles are placed on the forts, which are connected by routes just like cities. When a player plays their Tribune to recover their cards, if they have a colonist on a route connected to a fort, they can take that resource from the fort for free.

From Quiz Concordia: Salsa (Board Game)

Answer: Tools and wine

Wine and tools were not used for much in the base "Concordia" game. Tools were used to create new colonists and buy a few new cards, and wine was used mostly to buy new cards. When playing with salt, both wine and tools become more important, being the only way to build salt cities.

From Quiz Concordia (Board Game)

Answer: Food

Because players start the game with one of each resource and then another food, a common first move is to use the brick and any other resource to build a house on that kind of city, and then use one of the food to build a house on a brick city. Food is used to make brick cities and colonists, so it can be very important, especially in the early game.

From Quiz Istanbul: Trading in the Grand Bazar

Answer: Places

The 16 place cards are arranged in a four-by-four grid. Each place card represents a location in the bazaar such as warehouse, mosque, police station, post office, etc. The places are numbered from one to sixteen. Each place displays at the top its name, a place symbol, if applicable, the available action and at some places a reward of the game.

From Quiz Pandemic: The Board Game

Answer: Four players

Although the "On the Brink" expansion allows for a fifth player and the "In the Lab" expansion can be played with one through six players, the base game is playable by two, three, or four players. Having played the game a number of times, for me there was no reason why the game could not have a larger number of players. (The game avoids the difficulty many games with larger player numbers has--excessive time waiting for your turn especially if another player has "analysis paralysis". Multiple players are often active during a particular player's turn as one player often interacts with another on a turn.) Perhaps the initial limit to four was to prevent all of the potential player "roles" (and their powers) from being available.

From Quiz Tsuro of the Seas (2012 edition)

Answer: the oldest person

The person who is the oldest is the first to place his ship anywhere on the board. The player to that person's left goes next, and so on until the last player places his ship. When the actual game begins, the oldest person is the first to roll the dice and move his ship.

From Quiz Blokus

Answer: 15

If you use all your pieces you get 15 extra points. If the single tile is the last piece to go in you get five more extra points or 20 total.

From Quiz Scotland Yard, the Board Game

Answer: Half of the circle is shaded.

In the original version, buses are green, and in the 20th anniversary edition they're blue. Each space is a circle, halved horizontally, with a box in the middle displaying the number. A bus can allow you to skip many spaces in one turn. Only certain spaces are bus stops, and when using a bus you can only get off at another bus stop (this allows you to skip one of two spaces at a time when moving around). In the origional version, the top half of the circle was shaded, while in the 20th Anniversary Edition, the bottom half is shaded.

From Quiz Award Winning Tabletop Games

Answer: Camel Up

Due to the box cover design in the first edition, there has long been debate as to whether the game's title is indeed "Camel Up" or actually "Camel Cup".

From Quiz Board Games Named After Cities

Answer: Yokohama

Set in the port city of Yokohama during the Meiji period, this board game was released in 2016 and since then, a 2-player only version (Yokohama Duel) and a Roll-and-Write version (Yokohama Roll & Write) have been released.

From Quiz Concordia: Balearica (Board Game)

Answer: Two fish can be stored in a single space in the storehouse

Fish tokens have two sides, one with one fish, and the other with two. Fish, like money, can be consolidated or split up as needed to pay for fish market actions. Any fish left unclaimed on the board when a player collects the cash bonus during a Prefect action get flipped to their double fish side, encouraging players to produce in otherwise neglected provinces.

From Quiz Concordia (Board Game) Map Expansions

Answer: Sea colonists grant two movement points

The Germania map is a land-locked region with no seas or oceans to navigate. Instead, sea colonists travel along Germany's rivers, like the Rhine. There are far fewer available routes when confined to a river system instead of a large body of water, making sea colonists on this map much weaker. To offset this disadvantage, every sea colonist on the Germania board grants two movement points instead of one.

From Quiz Concordia (Board Game)

Answer: Players have move points equal to the number of colonists on the board

Each player starts with two colonists on the board, so if they use an Architect action as their first play (a common first move), they will have two movement points. Players could move each colonist once, or more a single colonist twice. This is another incentive to get more colonists on the board. Even if the new ones don't move, they grant more movement points for Architect plays.

From Quiz Istanbul: Trading in the Grand Bazar

Answer: Wheelbarrow

To start with, each wheelbarrow allows the merchant to carry two of each of the goods that can be found in the bazaar. When the merchant collects enough money, he can go to the "Wainwright" and purchase an additional extension. This increases the capacity of the wheelbarrow and of course the goods that it can carry.

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