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Capstone Games | Watergate | Board Game | 2 Players | Ages 12+ | 30-60 Minute Playing Time, Brown

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If an instruction tells you to "pin a picture to the evidence board it means that you must take the picture tile of the person named from the potential informant supply and place it onto that person's informant space (which is marked with that person's last name). Staff, Ars (2021-12-03). "Ars Technica's ultimate board game gift guide, 2021 edition". Ars Technica . Retrieved 2022-03-23. Place the game board A between you so that the Editor can see the board the right way up, while Nixon looks at it upside down.

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Watergate: White Box version features a stunning, thematic box cover of the original best-selling and award-winning Watergate game. If the initiative token was gained earlier this round, skip this step. 3. Award This Round's Momentum TokenZatu has an excellent range of games and for most of them the best prices too. Delivery is always fast and I have never received a game in bad condition. 10/10 would recommend. If you want gameplay similar in strategy to Twilight Struggle, but would like it in a game that does not take hours to playthrough, then Watergate is a perfect alternative. Whenever you gain an evidence token (or are instructed by a card to pin one to the evidence board), place it onto any empty evidence space that is marked with a slip of that token's color (or - in the case of a two-colored token - one of its two colors).

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If you are the Editor, place it face up (to create connections). If you are Nixon, place it face down (to disrupt connections).Determine who will play the Editor and ' who will play the Nixon Administration (from now on referred to as "Nixon"). a b c "The Watergate Board Game Is a Perfectly Timed Two-Player Treat". pastemagazine.com. 2019-11-21 . Retrieved 2022-03-23. If there is a face-down token with that color, Nixon must flip it face up and move it the appropriate number of spaces towards your side. If there are more than one such tokens, Nixon chooses which of them to flip and move. I also really appreciated how the designer really embraced the theme of Watergate. This could have easily been a game with a pasted-on theme, yet the manages to pull deeply from the source material. It was clear that a lot of cards were pulled from their real-life counterparts. As you might expect, the “Deep Throat” card is pretty powerful, for example. The theming is also brought home by the excellent design that has imagery and quotes from their respective historical events. You could easily take this with you anywhere, and I could see it being a great one to take to the pub for a few drinks with a friend. How Does It Play?

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The #1 Reddit source for news, information, and discussion about modern board games and board game culture. The game ends immediately with a win for the Editor if: At least 2 informants (face-up picture tiles) on the evidence board are connected via face- up evidence tokens to Nixon's picture in the center.The board is nice and sturdy, with really nice artwork and graphic design. I love the cards, they have a lovely soft finish and are slightly larger than standard playing card size. In Watergate the cards are the game really, so I’m happy so much attention to detail is paid. The photographs of the real people are included on each card, along with clear iconography, and some really nice flavour/history text on each one. Themes in board games broadly can fall into two extremes. On one side, theme is a simple window dressing, on the other, the theme is inseparable from the gameplay. A game with a strong theme that is rooted in its gameplay that at the same time can be also viewed through a completely abstract lens seems an impossibility. Yet, here is Watergate, a game that does both things flawlessly. Another feature that I really like about Watergate is its ease of teaching, learning, remembering and playing. You can get this game setup and underway with a new player in about ten minutes, and they’ll know all the rules within about fifteen and the first game will be over in under an hour, no doubt about it. What this does tend to mean is that a player who gets into it and enjoys it will want to play again, and Watergate is definitely the kind of game that rewards multiple repeat plays between the same two players – swapping sides and trying different strategies. So, how do you win? The journalists win if they manage to create a chain of evidence between Nixon and two recruited informants, thus bringing disgrace on the President. Nixon wins if he manages to thwart the journalists’ efforts long enough to win 5 momentum tokens or run down the game supply of momentum tokens, signifying that Nixon was successful in whitewashing Watergate long enough for Nixon to complete his term in office and the public to become disinterested/come down on the President’s side – #FakeNews. Thoughts

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