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Fresco (board game)

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Fresco is a 2010 designer board game by Marco Ruskowski and Marcel Sussellbeck, published by Queen Games for two to four players. Players take the roles of master painters hired to restore the ceiling fresco of a cathedral before an approaching festival. Each morning, players choose how early to wake their apprentices: waking earlier gives first pick of the paint stalls in the town market but costs the workers more in wages, while waking later saves money but leaves fewer good colors on offer. Over the course of the game players buy pigments, mix them into the specific colors the fresco needs, restore sections of the painting for points, and juggle secondary concerns such as apprentice morale and the bishop's approval. The game was nominated for the 2010 Spiel des Jahres and went on to win that year's Deutscher Spiele Preis, a peer prize voted on by German hobby gamers and retailers.

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Board Game 1
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Player Count
Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Origin Year
2010 1
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1. Fresco (board game) (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    Fresco is a 2010 designer board game by Marco Ruskowski and Marcel Süßelbeck.
  • Introduction
    Module 2: The Bishop's Request: Gives additional point and paint rewards if players forfeit some of their income from the restored fresco to meet specific requests. Module 3: Special Blend Colors: Makes available additional paint colors (brown and pink) that must be mixed and can provide higher points if used to restore the cathedral. First expansion (2010): Module 4: The Wishing Well: Gives early players in the market each turn an opportunity to get a small random bonus.
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    Fresco is a 2010 designer board game
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