Saint Petersburg (board game)
Saint Petersburg (German: Sankt Petersburg)[1] is a card-driven designer board game, with the design of the game credited to Michael Tummelhofer, a pseudonym for Michael Bruinsma, Jay Tummelson and Bernd Brunnhofer. Most of the design work was done by Brunnhofer.[2] The game was published in 2004 by Hans im Glück and Rio Grande Games, and won the Deutscher Spiele Preis and International Gamers Award for that year.
![]() Box cover of Saint Petersburg | |
Designer(s) | Michael Tummelhofer |
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Publisher(s) | Rio Grande Games Hans im Glück 999 Games |
Players | 2-4 |
Setup time | 1 minutes |
Playing time | 45 minutes |
Random chance | Medium |
Age range | 10 and up |
Skill(s) required | Strategic thought |
The first expansion, by Karl-Heinz Schmiel, is The Banquet, appearing first as an insert in a magazine, and consists of 12 new cards (3 normal and 9 special), as well as rules to use them. The second expansion, by Tom Lehmann, is The New Society and consists of 36 cards (28 normal, 7 replacement, and a fifth role card), plus rules to use them and to expand the game to five players. Both expansions were bundled together and sold as the St. Petersburg Expansion.
References
- Hans im Glück: Sankt Petersburg
- W. Eric Martin. "Ask Jay: Board Games to Video and Back Again". Boardgame News. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
External links
- Saint Petersburg at BoardGameGeek
- computer version of the game at Westpark Gamers
- online version of the game at Yucata.de
- Review of Saint Petersburg