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Plague Board Game Bristol 1350 Arrives in April

Bristol 1350 (Façade Games)Following a successful Kickstarter, Façade Games will be releasing a new board game which features the great pestilence of the 14th century. In Bristol 1350, designed by Travis Hancock, players will look to race their villager carrying cart out of the city, hopefully without any contagion. The game is for one to nine players, ages 13+, plays in around 20 to 40 minutes, and will carry an MSRP of $24.99 when it arrives April 21st.

About the game:

The dreaded Black Death has descended upon the town of Bristol. You are racing down the streets in one of the three available apple carts, desperate to escape into the safety of the countryside. If your cart is the first to leave the town and it is full of only healthy villagers when you leave, you and your fellow cart-mates successfully escape and win the game!

However, some villagers on your cart may already have the plague! They are hiding their early symptoms from you so that they can enjoy their last few days in peace. If you leave town with a plagued villager on your cart, you will catch the plague. You must do whatever is necessary to make sure that doesn’t happen!

On the surface Bristol 1350 is part cooperative teamwork, part racing strategy, and part social deduction. In reality, it’s a selfish scramble to get yourself out of town as fast as possible without the plague, by any means necessary.

The game comes in a magnetic book box and includes a rubber playmat, 9 wood pawns, 3 miniature carts, 6 rat/apple dice, a linen bag, and 64 cards. The deluxe version adds 6 coins, 6 cards, and 3 metal carts.

This is a standalone game. It is Volume 4 in the Dark Cities Series by Facade Games (previous Volumes include Salem 1692, Tortuga 1667, Deadwood 1876).

Bristol 1350 Contents (Façade Games)

Jeff McAleer

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