Palazzo

Late Renaissance, rich landowners, and one big question: whose palace will be the most magnificent? You build yours piece by piece from palace modules that you pick out of the quarries, and each new module changes what your palace is worth. Of course, none of it is free. Sometimes you have to step back from construction and earn money so you can keep building. That tension between spending and earning is the whole game, with bidding and collecting sets of modules keeping everyone honest. Palazzo is number two in the Alea medium box series, so expect a tidy, German-style design that plays in about an hour with two to four players.