| Caylus | 
Close-up of board in play | | Designer | William Attia | | Publisher | Ẏstari Games
Rio Grande Games | | Players | 2 to 5 | | Age range | 12 and up | | Setup time | 5 minutes | | Playing time | 60–180 minutes | | Rules complexity | Medium | | Strategy depth | High | | Random chance | Very low | | Skills required | Economic management, Strategic thought | | | BoardGameGeek entry | Caylus is a strategy- and building-oriented German-style board game designed by William Attia and independently published in 2005 by Ẏstari Games in France and England and Rio Grande Games in North America. Somewhat similar in flavor (and complexity) to Puerto Rico, Caylus has a mix of building, producing, planning, and bargaining — without direct conflict or dice-rolling mechanics. Rio Grande Games is a publisher of German-style board games in English. ...
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Game Mechanics
The goal of Caylus is to amass the most Prestige Points by constructing buildings and by working on the castle of Caylus in medieval France, bringing fame and prestige granted by King Philip the Fair. The basic mechanics of the game include: Caylus is a commune of the Tarn-et-Garonne département in southwestern France. ...
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- Resource cubes of five types: food (pink, sometimes referred to as "spam" or "pigs"), wood (brown), cloth (purple), stone (gray), and gold (yellow).
- Workers: Each player has six workers, which can be placed on buildings to harvest resources, construct more buildings, build the castle, and more.
- Neutral buildings: Six neutral buildings are randomly placed at the start of the game; along with initial player order, this is the only source of randomness in the game.
- Player buildings: By placing a worker on a construction building, a player can construct a new building; each building has a fixed cost of 2 to 8 resource cubes. All players can use the new building, but the original builder gets a bonus every time an opponent uses it.
- Building the castle: By placing a worker in the castle, a player can send a "batch" of three different resource cubes (one of which must be food) to help construct the castle of Caylus and reap prestige points and royal favors.
- Royal favors: Players who contribute to the royal cause (by building the castle, using the joust field, or constructing certain buildings) are granted royal favors. Royal favors can take the form of prestige points, money, resources, or discounted, unblockable access to construct buildings. Royal favors can often be the deciding factor in the game, when used cleverly.
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Awards Caylus initially gained public acclaim when it was rated the number one game of the October 2005 game fair in Essen, Germany by a public vote conducted by Fairplay Magazine. [1] It quickly rose to become one of the most discussed and top-rated games on BoardGameGeek, a popular online board gaming forum. Essen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...
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Caylus also received the Trictrac d'or 2005 award from the eponymous French boardgame website. [2] An eponym is the name of a person, whether real or fictitious, which has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery or other item. ...
With the international attention gained via BoardGameGeek and Essen 2005, the first printing of Caylus sold out in December 2005. A second printing was released in February 2006, including new cardboard coins to replace the gray plastic tiddlywinks-style coins from the original release.[3] The second edition also includes the jeweler as a standard stone building tile (it was previously an extra promotion tile) and numerous graphic design changes to clarify certain rules. Screenshot of the BoardGameGeek entry for Settlers of Catan. ...
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Although Caylus was not nominated for the 2006 Spiel des Jahres, the jury awarded it a special prize (Sonderpreis Komplexes Spiel) for the best complex game of 2006. [4] The Spiel des Jahres (German for Game of the Year) is arguably the most prestigious board game award for German-style board games. ...
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