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Hanoi, do not hesitate to contact-us! Let's learn through play!
Science? Military? What will you draft to win this head-to-head version of 7 Wonders?
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
2026/04/05
One of the best games I know: Power Grid.
It's a shame the box art is so ugly and the components so basic because the game itself is really interesting. I wonder if there's a deluxe version with nicer components. :)
It combines auction mechanics, energy resource management, and strategic placement on a map shared with the other players. It also has a little something extra regarding the balance between energy production and the electrical grid on the map: it's pointless to produce a lot of energy on a grid that's too small, and it's pointless to have a huge grid if you can't power it.
It's usually a rather long game, and even though I reduced the victory conditions, by having to repeat the French phrases at each stage, we're only halfway through.
The students didn't have too much trouble reading the sentences in correct French (including liaisons and pronunciation tricks), but we had a good laugh about the names of French cities. :)
There was one city they couldn't get right: "Caen". :)
It's pronounced [k??] and not [ka??], [k?n], or [sa??]! :)
I had planned to play Hangman with the day's vocabulary (coal, oil, auctions, etc.), but we really didn't have time.
P.S.: Hoa won, to everyone's surprise, including his own. :)
It's a shame the box art is so ugly and the components so basic because the game itself is really interesting. I wonder if there's a deluxe version with nicer components. :)
It combines auction mechanics, energy resource management, and strategic placement on a map shared with the other players. It also has a little something extra regarding the balance between energy production and the electrical grid on the map: it's pointless to produce a lot of energy on a grid that's too small, and it's pointless to have a huge grid if you can't power it.
It's usually a rather long game, and even though I reduced the victory conditions, by having to repeat the French phrases at each stage, we're only halfway through.
The students didn't have too much trouble reading the sentences in correct French (including liaisons and pronunciation tricks), but we had a good laugh about the names of French cities. :)
There was one city they couldn't get right: "Caen". :)
It's pronounced [k??] and not [ka??], [k?n], or [sa??]! :)
I had planned to play Hangman with the day's vocabulary (coal, oil, auctions, etc.), but we really didn't have time.
P.S.: Hoa won, to everyone's surprise, including his own. :)
