Which seven great cities does the game use? Is there any educational benefit to learn any world history?
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Other people mentioned the cities. While it does not teach specific history, it can open up a discussion regarding how one might build their city, concentrate on trade, or education, or war. You can use the rules of the game to associate how that might have worked in ancient times. I suppose, it's educational the way Monopoly can teach you the strategy of owning either a few expensive properties or many lower ones, and seeing which strategy wins out; and how you can relate that to real-life money-making strategies. I hope that makes sense. :)
507157
The game uses the seven wonders of the ancient world: the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum of Helicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. There's not really any historical/educational benefit to the game other than the use of the 7 wonders and some historically flavored cards used in the game. It's a great game, but not educational.
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There is no educational benefit except for the names of real ancient cities (and their wonders and, with the Leaders expansion, the names of famous leaders from the past. Off the top of my head, some of the cities are the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, The Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and the Colossus of Rhodes. The expansions come with other wonders and cities beyond the original 7.
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The game includes the Pyramids of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Lighthouse at Alexandria, and the Colossus at Rhodes. Beyond that there is no real education value. It is a strategy game that uses a special feature from each wonder to help it achieve victory, but the special features are by and large arbitrary and really don't tell anything about the wonder itself. The artwork is good, though, and the game might instill curiosity to go and learn about the ancient wonders in some.
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hey man i had the same problem except the only thing it gave me was colonization. heres whatcha have to do you. go to your c drive programs 86 and go to 2K games and click on file that says civ it should open you to the files that says complete, warlords, and colonization with the exes for the other expansions. though you might look around the files for a little bit but you will find them :D i wish ou the best of luck hope helped- Megaminecraft9
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My 7 and 8 year olds have been playing Catan for about a month. It took them a game or two to start getting a grasp on the "subtle" aspects of some of the strategy but since then they play the game really well. In fact, after a few weeks, I bought Cities and Knights and they both play that and play it well.
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It depends on how many people you have playing at the same time - if you are looking for sheer player expansion either Intrigue or the Dominion Base Cards set would do the trick. If you are a newer player definitely go with Intrigue first, then as you grow more accustomed to the game I'd go with Prosperity, Seaside, Guilds, and Dark Ages though not necessarily in that order. Honestly I do not believe there is a wrong answer as far as the best expansion.
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No. The Cities expansion will have a few more leaders to add to your leaders deck if you do have it, but the core of the Cities expansion (Black cards, debt tokens, diplomacy tokens and 8-player mode) functions completely fine without it. Also the two new wonders do not interact with leaders at all.
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I don't know anything about the card game. This expansion is larger train cards than were in the original game, and more destination cards. It seems to be meant to use with the original Ticket to Ride board game to expand play. That is what I use it for, and we loved getting the expansion. Again, I think the 1912 European expansion does the same thing...expands the original board game with new ways to play. You have to have the original board game for the expansion packs to be of any use. I hope that helps!
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It is actually when you travel to the middle world not through the dungeons but the middle world there is a table and that is where you access the other games. Kinda confusing but they all download though the main game
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The version I have (2007/2008) has the games you ask about plus 24 more, some very good and some not so. Double crossword game is very good, plus the slide tile game is a real favorite. Well worth the money for these games.
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My kids love it. It has great educational value too. Not only does my 5 year old know what Smegma is, but he can spell it too. That's the longest word he can spell! I think this game should be played in every school in America!
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Yes it has Bridge, poker, hearts, spades, rummy, euchre,gin, canasta, solitaire, blackjack, pinochle, go fish, old maid, cribbage and war. It works on Win 7. Thats what I have. I have only done euchre and cribbage so far it works fine.
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I've played both and consider myself an 'ameteur' when it comes to these types of games. I get overwhelmed when they get too complicated. Dominion, by itself without expansions, is easier than 7 wonders. I LOVE both games but they are played totally differently. Same basic concept of building a civilation, game time is similar and the goal is getting the most points (scoring is must easier with Dominion) but game play is different and strategy is different. I agree that if your kids already play 7 wonders, they will likely want expansions for Dominion.
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The names are made up or a combination of possible merged countries. Such as Enclave of the Bear, Indiastan, and Ukrania. Also water and moon names that are fully made up. Love this game.
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The hint button will give you info about it or you can also google the walk thru for the game and go to that section of instruction.
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Yes, it's quite accurate. We gave it to our grandkids in England, and they learned location of countries quite well, especially after playing it a number of times.
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As far as free play? Yes. You choose up to I think 6 different nations to be allies or enemies, you chose your starting location and you choose the difficulty. Is that what you mean?
2161515
The version I have (2007/2008) has the games you ask about plus 24 more, some very good and some not so. Double cross word game is very good, plus the slide tile game is a real favorite. Well worth the money for these games.
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yes, this is everything about Civ 5. Mine showed Brave New World at the home page, but it got everything in it.