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Shopping and building: Tori preview

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Designer Kimmo Sorsamo sent me a copy of his latest game Tori. I still haven’t tried his previous game, Epäillyt, which is a murder mystery in 1930’s Helsinki. Let’s just say that one didn’t get a very good reception among board game hobbyists and I doubt I could convince my friends to give it a go anymore. Well, it’s a family game and probably works well as one.

ToriAnyway, I was talking about Tori… Tori will get better response from gamers, as it’s definitely more of a thinking game. Players try to succeed on the Helsinki Kauppatori market place during the Summer Olympics of 1952, building different kinds of market stalls, attracting customers to them and expanding the stalls.… Read More…