Schmidt Spiele | Mille Fiori | Board Game | Ages 10+ | 2-4 Players | 75 Minutes Playing Time

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There is some maths to do in this section but to save time, if you have all four trade symbols filled and you also filled all three ships for the trade fleet, you will gain thirty points for that row. Unique to The Harbour, there are no bonus points in this area. However, to get the bonus cards, you need to set out to sea. The story of Mille Fiori, written by the American artist in glass, Dale Chihuly, begins with sand and fire. Like an alchemist, he brings these elements together and transforms them into glass. For a glass-blower, there is nothing essentially remarkable about the production of glass from heated sand. On the other hand, if this transformation leads to such a diversity of form, such glorious colour, such a complex interplay of opacity and transparency as is the case with Chihuly, one is actually tempted to speak of a miracle. With his glass installations, Chihuly is creating a world of his own.

DiDominicis, Jill. "Polymer clay: a modern medium comes of age" (PDF). Ornamen Magazine . Retrieved May 1, 2018. The greatest transformatory art in Mille Fiori perhaps lies in the fact that despite formal references to nature, the installation outlines a counter-world and presents it directly. A sealed-off, protected world, which touches us to the core through our senses and emotions, and strikes a chord within us. This world is not an illusion, because it refers to nothing but itself. It surrounds us in the exhibition space, and we are grateful to Dale Chihuly for allowing us to linger on this island of pure beauty. Bibliography: Players get one point for each tile they place, and an additional point for any other tiles they are diagonally connected to, even if the tile is not yours. The Pigment icon is special in the workshop as it is worth two points, but so are any tiles connected to it in the same diamond formation. Alongside these “instant” points there is also a reward for placing a tile on all four separate icons. 20 for the first player to achieve this and then 15, 10 and 5 for 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively.

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To continue with the example, if you then placed another tile on a space worth 5 points, this will also score the bonus points as you have a tile on 2,3,4 & 5. As before, 20 for the first player, down to 5 for the forth. Finally, to gain the bonus card in The Residences, you need to have 3 and/or 5 tokens on different numbered spaces, just like with the bonus points. Making of a millefiori pattern is a multi-step process, but it all starts with a glass rod prepared in a special way. It contains multiple layers of semi-liquid glass paste applied one on top of another around the cylindrical rod. Each layer is molded to have a certain shape (usually star or flower-like) and color. The preparation continues as the resulting multi-layered rod is stretched and then cut up into small cylindrical pieces called "murrine". You can actually combine multiple bonus cards in one round, leading to a chain of moves which can seriously boost your points for that turn Vincenzo Moretti not only learnt how to achieve the beauty of Millefiori patterns, he also managed to create exact copies of the amazing glassware produced by the Ancient Romans and used in Pompeii and in other Roman cities that was on display in world-famous Archeological Museum of Naples. Thus, this special technique that once again made the world stand in awe of the enviable skills of Murano glass makers is no longer a secret. It is probably more complex than any other glassmaking technique and requires an exceptionally high level of skill, and maybe for these reasons it is still the trademark of Venetian and Murano glassmakers.

Millefiori beads from Murano are still some the of the highest quality you will find in the world but of course other companies are always trying to emulate their beauty. India, China and Indonesia manufacture their own versions that are similar but it is obvious that they do not have the years of continued craftsmanship to compare with work from Murano. Here is a good article to help you identify the "non-Murano" bead. When forming the pyramids, start by placing tiles on the bottom level, each tile on it’s own here is worth 1 point. Once you have at least two tiles together, you can place a token on the next row up, the second row scores 3 points per token. Again, once you have 2 adjacent tiles on the second row, you can build on the third, and each tile here is worth 6 points. Remember, you double the points for each token if both the colour and the symbol match your card when placed. You also gain points for all tiles supporting the one you placed. So, for example, let’s say you place a tile on the third row, you gain 6 points for this tile, 3 points for each of the two directly underneath, and a further 3 points for the bottom level tiles as well. Touching people through the encounter with beauty is Chihuly’s clear ambition. He has found a universal medium for this, which even hardbitten art critics are unable to escape – I take Barbara Rose as a representative example: ‘My Dale Chihuly is a mischievous, cunning, inspired shaman—a magician, a contemporary Merlin, a Ken Kesey Merry Prankster who produces the psychedelic experience of a magical, glowing, and sparkling, brilliantly alive panorama without drugs. This enchanted glass world has as much to do with Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz as it does with the great Renaissance and Baroque festivals that sovereigns arranged to entertain their courts and subjects.’ 2 The Harbour Pro Tip; The Trade Fleet can provide one of the single biggest scores you can get in Mille Fiori for one action, so try to get as many ships in each trade fleet as you can, but remember you can slip one of your own ships into somebody else’s fleet.

Alfsdotter, C., Papmehl-Dufay, L., & Victor, H. (2018). A moment frozen in time: Evidence of a late fifth-century massacre at Sandby borg. Antiquity, 92(362), 421-436. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.21