Pros: INSANE replayability, variable strategies for success, engaging end game bonuses, enjoyable tension and player interaction This is a game that gets better with each play through but what you get out of this game will vary depending on who you play it with. I would of scored this a 50% out of 100% on my first play through but like I said it gets better the more you play it. For me, I don’t usually mind some take that stuff in my games and I really don’t mind negative effects that impact all of the players equally as the Unfair City cards do in this game. That said, some of the things you can do to each other in this game are just nasty. Many of the event cards feature devastating effects that if not defended against can ruin a long term strategy you’ve been working on over many turns. Compounding this is the fact that most people hold on to those effects until near the end of the game, trying to make it so that blueprints that you’ve been working on since the start of the game can no longer be fulfilled once you get to scoring.

Okay, so it’s not a great game. It’s old and clunky, and may be better suited to kids than to adults, but so are a lot of board games. Is Monopoly really that more deserving of all this hatred than any of the other classic board games that have existed for over a century? Once everyone has completed their park actions, you move to the guest and cleanup stages where you calculate your income from guests and bonuses for the round as well as refresh the market with new park cards to buy. After the 8th round of play, players will score each of their attractions separately based on the number of icons present from upgrades, blueprints, staff points and any remaining coins they have. The highest scorer is the king of Unfair City! Must be This Tall to Ride Unfair and Funfair both have events, but there is one crucial difference: Funfair only has City Events. While Unfair also has City Events, it also has regular events that are played by the players. City Events affect everyone; regular events affect a certain opponent as chosen by you, the one who played the event to begin with. Of course, those regular events also give you the option of ignoring the negative effect on others and getting a positive effect for yourself, so you aren’t always targeting people. Because those regular events don’t exist in Funfair, the game is a lot friendlier and it doesn’t take as long to play, since you’re not taking the time to go through that phase of the game. Event cards we’ve already covered. These go into your hand and do count for the hand limit at the end of the turn.Not all of the argument against Monopoly comes down to the game itself. Despite it being the very thing that Elizabeth Magie was trying to warn against with her design, Monopoly’s publisher and rights owner Hasbro has a bit of a monopoly on the tabletop market itself. It might be difficult to reconcile when you look at Hasbro as a company - the people who make Connect 4 and Trivial Pursuit, Cluedo and Monopoly - but it’s an absolutely massive fish in a small pond. Unfair is a brilliant and enjoyable card-based engine building game where I can truly say no two games will be the same…well unless you play A LOT! There are so many viable choices for a strategy and it is very enjoyable to ponder which direction you should take. After the first four rounds of the game, it becomes harder to get blueprints so you are forced to choose betweencontemplate collecting them early or risking not having any later. Unfair offers many ways to build your park, upgrade it and interact with your opponents to slow their progress and muddle their blueprint progress. Would I recommend this game? If you like games that contain a take-that element 100% get this game your group will love it. If at any time you don’t have enough money, you can always take out a loan. This doesn’t cost you an action. You can take out a maximum of four loans. Each loan you take out instantly gives you five coins but costs you ten victory points at the end of the game.

If you prefer not to have other players meddling in your affairs, then Funfair is probably more up your alley. However, if you love a game with more variety and the ability to mix games up from one to the next, Unfair is where it’s at. But now that you know the differences between the two, I’ll leave the final decision up to you. Everything I loved about Funfair is still present in Unfair, and to me that’s awesome. As someone who prefers heavier games, I also love all the added complexity and decision points. There’s a lot more to think about and a lot more options every turn, and that’s great for me and the people I usually game with. If this all sounds great you can find out more information about an Unfair expansion in our review of Alien, B-movie, Dinosaur, Western. Final scoring is calculated based on the blueprint cards you have achieved (or points deducted if they have not been achieved), each upgrade on each attraction and money. Some staff cards may provide end game scoring bonuses. The player with the most points is the winner and has built the best theme park in town. Putting the ‘F’ in Unfair

The scoring section now explicitly states that attractions over 25 cards score the maximum points regardless of size. If it is a topic that has not yet been covered, you can most likely find more information here on your topic of choice. From official Unfair board game useful links to very unofficial ones.

Unfair Review: https://www.boardgameatlas.com/forum/ypEE69fZOB/a-totally-fair-review-of-unfair-and-the-abdw-expansion Next, you score all of your Blueprint cards. Gaining the points shown on the card for the basic requirement if your park matches what is listed on the card. If you complete the basic portion you can also score the bottom bonus section, if you also have all of the requirements listed for the bonus. For every Blueprint card where you didn’t meet the requirements listed in the basic section, you lose ten points. While Unfair does not have any bonus awards to score at the end of the game (aside from Blueprints, which Funfair also has), Funfair has a number of Award cards that can help you focus on specific things for you park. For example, at the end of the game, the player with the “most guest services” in their park gain an additional 15 points. This could be a game changer in a close game! Besides, as I mentioned, these awards help players unfamiliar with the game work toward something, guiding them along until they can get a firmer grasp on the gameplay.Next, you get points for any cards in your tableau that award points. Most of these are staff cards but there are also some park cards that feature end game scoring opportunities. I will honestly say, our first two-player game of Unfair was like this. Deanna saved up two events for the last round of the game and played both of them on me. These two cards undid all of the work I had done during the entire game to complete two difficult blueprints. Those two card plays cost me over sixty points when we got to end game scoring. At that point, I had determined that I didn’t like Unfair at all. I felt like it took all of the great stuff from Funfair and ruined it with nasty take that event cards. In general, Americans weren’t massive fans of being taxed. Georgism wanted to tax the value of the land itself across the country to fund the American government, after which any leftover funds could then be equally and fairly distributed among the citizens of the state. This was a pretty enticing system for a lot of progressive political leaders because it was seen to motivate land cultivation, it put money in the hands of those who had low socioeconomic standing and it got rid of the idea that landowners and landlords held all the power of the land that citizens used despite not really contributing to anything that was made on that land.

Funfair is a two to four-player card drafting, hand management, tableau-building game. It’s from designer Joel Finch and published by CMON/Good Games Publishing. Players compete over six rounds to build the best theme park by building attractions. They’ll also be upgrading them with the use of cards. Funfair is a reimplementation of the 2017 popular game, Unfair. This one has a faster setup and playtime. A lighter, more streamlined ruleset and focused more on positive player interaction. Funfair is a more family-friendly game compared to its predecessor Unfair. During scoring, you are awarded points for a few different things. First up is Attraction Size. For each of your attractions count up the number of icons on the attraction and all of its upgrades. This total is compared to a chart to see how many points that attraction is worth. The more icons the more points, with the difference in points escalating as you go up the scale. Other Game Changer cards include the World Peace Game Changer where you cannot use Event or Park card abilities that affect other players (great for groups who dig the game but don’t like the take-that aspects) or the School Vacation Game Changer that makes Unfair a great game for kids by removing everything but the park cards and changing the game to a race to build five rides worth at least fifteen stars.

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What do I think? Well this is why I struggled with getting this review done. Every time I have played this game my thoughts have changed. I have gone from hating it to loving it, to now thinking it’s a game unlike anything else in my collection and worthy of its shelf space. Well, for one, despite it maybe seeming quite novel at the time - Magie’s original patent for The Landlord’s Game was supposedly the first game board to feature a continuous looping path - the game itself isn’t designed to be fun. It’s designed to make a statement. While one player around the table might be flying high as they squeeze every cent out of their competitors, the rest of the people playing will be subjugated to a long slog of slowly going bankrupt with not much they can do about it. But that’s the whole point. Magie wanted players to feel like they’d been cheated and unfairly cast asunder, so that when she brought out the second, Georgist version of the game that showed the virtues of her cause they’d implant themselves in its philosophy even further. The Landlord’s Game existed in two separate versions. The first was essentially modern-day Monopoly. The players moved around the board, swallowing up every space worth of property they could and slowly grinding the other players down to the point where they were forced to sell their own lands, with the winner being whoever ended up with everything at the end. This was the version that players would first be introduced to and was supposed to represent the then-current system that Americans were living under. Elizabeth Magie was an American game designer, writer and inventor born in Illinois in 1866. Born to newspaper publisher and abolitionist James K. Magie, who would spend the 1850s accompanying Abraham Lincoln during the Lincoln-Douglas debates around Illinois, Elizabeth was no stranger to progressive politics from an early age. We have not reviewed this game yet but we can tell you that this is a very fun park management game that is a great personal tableau game. You and other players are on a timeline and you need to play your hand to build up your park and make sure you are the biggest success. It is a very solid choice for this type of game. Read Our Full Unfair Review (Coming Soon) Go to Top