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Flip City Review: Build your own town!

22/03/25, 0 comments

The inhabitants of Flip City want you to run the town - this means collecting taxes, which makes them unhappy! As city manager, you must satisfy them by using taxpayers' cash wisely. Are you up to the challenge?

Por Cesar Cusin

traducido por Antonio Carlos

revisado por Antonio Carlos

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1. > Chih-Fan Chen

Chih-Fan Chen

One can't talk about Flip City without mentioning Chih-Fan Chen - the game's designer and artist. He is basically THE most well-known boardgame designer from Taiwan.

Flip City is very nostalgic, after all, everyone at some point played with small city-building toys. It stimulates children’s logical and mathematical thinking, and strategy, and also a beautiful art visual that also captures their attention.

As you play the cards, it is necessary to use math to add up the cash, victory points and any unhappiness icons that appear. There are also decisions to make: should I play another card? Should I stop or push my luck? These questions should be encouraged in children, so they can face the consequences in their decisions. Frustration may happen, but it's part of the process!

There's a lot of strategy involved in what to do with cash: recycle cards, or save the money for the Building Phase? It's ok to help, but let the child make the final decision. It helps them mature.

Use the game's art as reference for a real place in your city, and you can even link it with geography, locations, just use your imagination and many things can be explored.

Pedagogically, Flip City stimulates, teaches and entertains!

I recommend Flip City for your collection!