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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley plays in 60-90 minutes and includes a challenging and innovative solo-mode!
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Universe
Scott Almes' Silicon Valley puts players in the shoes of budding entrepreneurs struggling to be the first amongst their competitors to have their startup company valued at $1 billion.
Gameplay
Players hire staff for their start-up company to put out new products, with the nature of the products being determined by patterns that you build with polyominoes. By putting these products on the market, you'll gain income, but other players might copy your product and take some of that money for themselves — refining your ideas to steal market share, as it were. Along the way you need to acquire funding and try not to go bankrupt while working you way toward being the first company to be valued at $1 billion, which nets you the win.
Players must juggle their products, while keeping an eye on their competitors, hire and fire staff, seek investors, and expand their HQs, all the while keeping an eye on the bottom line. Will the valley make or break you?
Technical sheet
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Reference
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GRLSVA001676
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Release date
- 2020-07-22
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Age
- 14+
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Number of players
- 1-4
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Game length
- 60 min.
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Rules Difficulty
- Moderate
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Concentration
- Focused
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Atmosphere
- Relaxed
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Theme
- Economic
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Language
- EN , FR
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Game Designer
- Scott Almes
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Illustrator
- Kerri Aitken
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Product type
- Game
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Mechanics
- Tile Placement , automatic resource growth , variable setup
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Material
- 1 Solo board , 1 Solo turn order token , 2 False , 2 Solo pawns , 5 Solo cubes , 8 False , 8 Player order & Score tokens , 9 $25 tokens , 16 $10 tokens , 18 $5 tokens , 24 Product cards , 27 HQ cards , 27 VC cards , 36 Solo cards , 45 Employee cards , 48 Product Launch tiles , 53 $1 tokens , 140 Polyominos
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Collection
- Silicon Valley
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Box size
- 70 x 295 x 295 mm
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Weight
- 2.31 KG
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Package size
- 30.00 x 7.00 x 30.00 CM
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