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Chinatown

Chinatown 1999

7.4 /10
BGG rating
#386
BGG rank
2.2
Weight
3–5
Players
5
Best at
60
Minutes
12
Age

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About the Game

This is a negotiation game in the truest sense of the word. In it, players acquire ownership of sections of city blocks then place tiles, representing businesses, onto the block-sections. At the end of each turn, each tile you've laid gives you some sort of payout, but completed businesses (formed of three to six connected tiles of the same type) pay quite a bit better. All these resources are dealt to the players randomly, however, so players must trade to get matching businesses and adjacent locations.

This game is #2 in the Alea big box series.

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Also known as
ไชน่าทาวน์ · 차이나타운
BGG ratings
12,544 · geek rating 7.11
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026

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