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What is Fresco: Revised edition

In Fresco, players are master painters working to restore a fresco in a Renaissance church.

Each round begins with players deciding what time they would like to wake up for the day. The earlier you wake up, the earlier you will be in turn order, and the better options you will be guaranteed to have. Wake up early too often, however, and your apprentices will become unhappy and stop working as efficiently. They would much rather sleep in!

Then, players decide their actions for the turn, deploying their apprentice work force to various tasks. You'll need to buy paint, mix paint, work on painting the fresco, raise money (which you'll need to buy the aforementioned paint!) by painting portraits, and perhaps even send your apprentices to the opera in order to increase their happiness. Points are scored mostly by painting the fresco, which requires specific combinations of paints, so you'll need to buy and mix your paints wisely, in addition to beating other players to the paints and fresco segments you would like to paint.

Fresco includes several expansion modules, so you can play without expansions for a lighter family game or add in expansions to vary play and increase the decision-making and difficulty, resulting in a very flexible game with a high replay value.

Specs

Game details

Players: 2–4
Age: +10
Duration: 60 min
Difficulty: Medium
Type: Board game
Year: 2010
Mechanics: Action Queue · Grid Movement · Market
Categories: Renaissance
Designer: Wolfgang Panning
Publisher: Devir

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Sentencia_JG10/10

2-4 J. (4 mejor). (1-febrero-2016) Euro de programación de acciones y gestión de recursos muy bien ambientado. La elección de la hora de levantarse es vital para la estrategia, posiblemente sea la decisión que más peso tiene en el juego pues influye en la cantidad de ayudantes (acciones), el precio en el mercado (dinero), la elección de los retratos (cartas) e incluso en qué parte del fresco pintar.