{"product_id":"luthier","title":"Luthier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo and a half hours on the question of who gets to make the violin.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDave Beck and Abe Burson's follow-up to Distilled, set in the workshops of eighteenth-century Europe when instrument-making sat somewhere between craft and industry. You are courting patrons — real ones, Bach and Mozart and Beethoven among them — while assembling the wood, varnish and labour to finish instruments that those patrons will actually want. The production is the re\u003cimg\u003eason people talk about it: this is a game that looks like the subject it is about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe engine is hidden bidding welded to worker placement, which is an unusual pairing and the source of most of the tension. You commit to a bid before you know what anyone else wants, and a lost auction is not merely a lost turn, it is a turn your rival now takes. Heavy, long and unapologetic about it — nearer two and a half hours than ninety minutes with four, and the rulebook expects you to have played this sort of thing before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/strong\u003e the group that finished Distilled and immediately asked what else the same people had made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1–4 players | 90–150 minutes | Age 14+\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📖 \u003cstrong\u003eNew to the style?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/what-is-a-worker-placement-game\"\u003eWhat is a Worker Placement game?\u003c\/a\u003e — what the mechanism is, and why it keeps turning up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paverson Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49738929930392,"sku":null,"price":139.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/8381\/9672\/files\/pic8145392.jpg?v=1787624987","url":"https:\/\/www.cartellgames.com.au\/products\/luthier","provider":"Cartell Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}