Saint Petersburg is a card-drivendesigner board game created by Michael Tummelhofer, a pseudonym for Michael Bruinsma, Jay Tummelson and Bernd Brunnhofer. The game was published in 2004 by Hans im Glück and Rio Grande Games, and won the Deutscher Spiele Preis and International Gamers Award for that year. // This article is about games played with cards. ... German-style board games, also known as Euro games, designer games, family strategy games or hobby board games, are family games designed to appeal simultaneously to older children and adults. ... Hans im Glück is a German board and card game publisher, named after the Grimm fairy tale Hans in Luck. ... Rio Grande Games is a publisher of German-style board games in English. ... The Deutscher Spiele Preis (German for German Game Prize) is arguably the next most prestigious award for German-style games after the Spiel des Jahres. ... The International Gamers Award is an award for strategy board games and historical simulation games. ...
It's a game about the great Canal building era of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that captures the feel of the period and gives players plenty of decision making in their attempts to complete some of the most famous British canals.
This new boardgame for the whole family is set in middle America long before Cortez came to conquer the area.
How the game is played: Utilizing the forces of magnetism, players take turns placing hovering magnetic discs on the board in order to impose chaos on their opponent.
SaintPetersburg was one of only two new games that were added to the 2005 WBC Century list, coming in fourth with 200 votes.
The tournament format of three heats allowed more people a chance to enter, and two games would be played in each heat because SaintPetersburg is about a 1.25 hour game and two games fit in a three-hour block better than one game fit in a two-hour block.
The highest score in the four-player games was 134 points achieved by Brian Carr in the same game with the highest total score in a four-player game of 390 points.
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