Fjords (board game)

For other uses, see Fjord (disambiguation).
Fjords
Designer(s) Franz-Benno Delonge
Publisher(s) Hans im Glück
Rio Grande Games
Players 2
Age range 8 years and up
Setup time 1 minute
Playing time 30 minutes
Random chance Medium
Skill(s) required Tile placement

Fjords is a tile-based German-style board game designed by Franz-Benno Delonge and published in 2005 by Hans im Glück and Rio Grande Games. Unlike some other games in the genre, Fjords is strictly limited to two players. The game is played in two phases: exploration and expansion. In the first phase, the players draw random hexagonal tiles and place them on the gaming table in alternating sequence to form a map. Tile edges must consistently match with respect to terrain types (clear land, mountain, and water). On some of the tiles they place their four villages. In the second phase, they expand from their villages by placing tokens of their colour on the tiles. The player who succeeds in placing the most tokens (by cutting off the other player's access to tiles) wins the game.

This game is not to be confused with the game Fjord, a military simulation situated in Norway during World War II.

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