Hagen 1888 (2021)

Visit a bygone Hagen, Hagen in 1888, one year after it became an independent city in Germany. On this "dice walk" through the city, you can visit thirteen historical places, many of which are still in the same place today, while others have changed structure significantly and some have moved locations or disappeared.

In Hagen 1888, you want to visit a variety of locations, but ideally you can reach the right locations at the right time to score more points than others. On a turn, you roll the six-sided die, then either bank those movement points or roll again; if you roll again and get a result higher than your first roll, you bank the sum of the two rolls; if your second roll is equal to or lesser than the first roll, you bank no movement points this turn.

Next, you can move your figure on the game board, which depicts a network of walkways. Most spaces on the walkways are gray, but the board has twelve lettered building spaces in six colors as well as the Rathaus (town hall) in a seventh color. If you start on a building, you must move; otherwise movement is optional. One point of movement takes you to an adjacent space on a walkway.

If you end your movement on a lettered building (which must differ from where you started), you can place one of your eight tokens in the lowest open space on the "Hagen points" board for that letter.

If you end your movement at the Rathaus, you remove your figure from the game board and place it on a 4-point space in the Rathaus section of the "Hagen points" board. On each subsequent turn, you no longer move your figure, but instead you may spend 6 movement points to raise a previously placed token in a letter column to the first open space higher in that column; alternatively you can spend 12 points to move it up two spaces. Once you are in the Rathaus, to end your turn, place one of your eight tokens on a 1-point space in the Rathaus.

At the end of your turn, you must have fewer than 8 movement points banked. Once a player has placed all eight of their tokens on the Hagen points board, the game ends at the conclusion of the round. Players score the points listed next to their placed tokens, in addition to 1 point per 4 banked movement points and 3 points for each color of building in which they have a token, with a maximum color bonus of 21. Whoever has scored the most points wins.