A Few Acres of Snow
A Few Acres of Snow is a board game designed by Martin Wallace. It is based on the French and Indian War of 1754-1763. Its name is taken from "a few acres of snow", words of consolation Voltaire provided King Louis XV of France, when news arrived that the French had lost Canada. The title was also used for a book by Robert Leckie.[1]
Awards
- 2011 winner of the BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award[2]
- 2011 winner of the Meeples' Choice Award,[3]
Reimplementation
In 2014 Treefrog released Mythotopia, a multiplayer game based on the core mechanisms in A Few Acres of Snow. A third, space themed game, A Handful of Stars. is also in the works for release in 2016.
References
- ↑ Leckie, Robert (2000). "A Few Acres of Snow" The Saga of the French and Indian Wars: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars. New York City: Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-24690-5.
- ↑ "2011 Golden Geek Award Winners". Board Game Geek. BoardGameGeek, LLC. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ↑ "Meeples Choice Awards". BoardGameGeek.
External links
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