Description

This is the Turku version of the Kaupunkipelit (City Games) series. The southwestern city of Turku is the oldest city in Finland (founded 1229), was the capital before Helsinki until 1812, and still is the 6th largest city and the hub of the 3rd largest metropolitan area in the country, the capital of it's region, and an important seaport with shipyards.

Unlike most games in the series, this one (along with Helsinkipeli) came in two different editions; an earlier edition in a styrofoam box inside a cardboard sleeve fastened by velcro (similar to the concurrent Swedish Lokalspelet series) and a later edition which is similar to most of the other games in the series.

Kaupunkipelit is a series of games, each of which is basically a light version of Monopoly localized to a city/region of Finland. The games promote local companies, councils, educational institutes etc. and were designed as a fund raising effort for local sports clubs.

The main differences between these games and Monopoly are:

-Instead of a "street" each square on the board represents a local business.
-There are no hotels or houses, but each square has two title deeds instead of just one, allowing two players to jointly own any location on the board.
-The majority of the event cards are trivia questions about the locality the game is set in.
-While the effects of the first two corner squares (Go and Jail in Monopoly) remain the same for every edition (Go and Stock Market Crash), the effect of the other two corners varies from edition to edition and is the only real difference between them (except for the trivia content, of course). They are typically also local businesses but without title deeds and thus no rent either, but some special effect instead, such as pass a turn or get an extra throw.