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Santorini (game)

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Santorini is an abstract strategy board game for two to four players, designed by Gordon Hamilton in 1985. He published an all-white wooden version in 2004, and Roxley Games republished it through Kickstarter in 2016. The game takes its inspiration from the architecture of the cliffside villages on Santorini Island in Greece. It is mainly designed for two players and is played on a grid where each turn players build a town by placing building pieces up to three levels high. To win, a player must move one of their two characters onto the third level of the town.

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Board Game 1
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Player Count
Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Origin Year
1985 1
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1. Santorini (game) (Wikipedia)
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    Santorini is an abstract strategy board game for 2-4 players
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    designed by Gordon Hamilton in 1985
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