A Few Acres of Snow (board game)

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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 France had lost Canada. The title was also used for a book by Robert Leckie. [1]

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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, was released – as the last game published by Treefrog Games – in 2017.

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References

  1. 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.
  2. "2011 Golden Geek Award Winners". Board Game Geek . BoardGameGeek, LLC. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  3. "Meeples Choice Awards". BoardGameGeek.