Capstone Games | Watergate | Board Game | 2 Players | Ages 12+ | 30-60 Minute Playing Time, Brown

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Watergate is a near flawless travel companion for two players who have a bit of space and time – perhaps on a caravan holiday or a warm balcony – and it’s also an interesting way to involve older children in a bit of historic learning. As the Nixon administration you want to suppress evidence, turn informants, and conspire to get away with it, or stall until your presidency is over. Players must balance on a tightrope of advancing their position in the game, while at the same time trying to slow down their opponents. Please note that all items within our outlet section contain a level of damage to the packaging, which in no way effects game play.

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If you are looking for a card-driven, two-player game that fully embraces its theme, the grab a copy of Watergate from Capstone Games. Conversely, the Post player may try to secure the informants themselves early, but that will likely mean Nixon secures enough momentum to win very quickly. As the administration you feel pursued and harassed by these pesky journalists who keep turning over evidence you thought long suppressed. Watergate: White Box version features a stunning, thematic box cover of the original best-selling and award-winning Watergate game. In the two-player game Watergate, one player represents the Nixon administration and tries not to resign before the end of the game while the other player represents The Washington Post and tries to show the connections between Nixon and some of his informers.Whilst the Washington Post (who were hell bent on proving the involvement and subsequent cover up of Nixon’s administration in a break-in involving their Democratic rivals) did not succeed in having Nixon impeached in reality, they came damn close to it. When you use the value part of your card to move an evidence token, it must be a token of the color shown on that card A or a two-colored evidence token that includes that color.

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Final Score: 5 Stars – Excellent, tight gameplay and a great theme make this a must own for those looking for their next two-player game. Each card can work one of 4 ways: move an initiative, momentum, or evidence token, or for it’s event. With the journalists it goes face up as you slowly thread the evidence together, connecting informants up and eventually to the president himself.If there is a face-down token with that color, Nixon must flip it face up and move it the appropriate number of spaces towards your side. Writing for the Paste Magazine, Keith Law agreed and praised the mechanics and the "well explained and depicted" theme through the "extensive appendix" of the rulebook, but criticised that the card powers did not have "any real relationship to the various personages or events the game cards". A rare gem of a two-player game, Watergate is accessible and quick to play, with tug of war gameplay that brings gripping tension with every round.

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While each player has their own goals and unique deck, the overall gameplay uses the same rules for both players. However, I’d urge you to read this review all the same, because to turn your nose up at Watergate without looking deeper could be doing your collection a major disservice. It’s a game for two players only, and happily sits on a small table between the players, which is the way it’s designed to be played. Removing a bunch of cards means you’ll be drawing those powerful journalist/conspirator cards more often. To win, the Nixon Administration must build up enough momentum to make it to the end of the term, whereas the Editor must gather enough evidence to connect two informants directly to the President.

Watergate was designed by Matthias Cramer, who previously designed the worker placement title Glen More. If it is your first discarded card, place it face up beside your draw deck to create your,discard pile). Whenever you gain an evidence token (or are instructed by a card to pin one to the evidence board), place it onto any empty evidence space that is marked with a slip of that token's color (or - in the case of a two-colored token - one of its two colors). First off, the simplicity of the design abstracts the events of Watergate into a tense head-to-head of move and countermove.

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I think this fascination comes from repeatedly playing Draughts, Chess and Stratego with my dad and friends when I was much younger. At any time, both of you may look at face-down evidence tokens that are already on the evidence board. The bag of evidence tokens and seven tiles representing potential informants or supporters sit on the table next to the board. For those who may not know (since it’s not in living memory for a lot of us – including me), Watergate is an infamous scandal involving the administration of then President Richard Nixon, which ultimately resulted in his resignation.

Sometimes we may include links to online retailers, from which we might receive a commission if you make a purchase. If there is no face- down evidence token with that color (and Nixon tells you so), you may instead move either the initiative token, the momentum token, or an already face-up evidence token with that color (or - in the case of a joker - any color). Pick up the latest issue of the UK's fastest-growing gaming magazine in print or digital hereor subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. After a couple of games, players will learn the abilities on each other’s card and will start making decisions based on the powerful abilities they know their opponent can still play in the future and try to negate them. If the Washington Post can ever complete unbroken lines of evidence from any two informants all the way to Nixon, then they will win immediately.