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]
- 2011 winner of the BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award [2]
- 2011 winner of the Meeples' Choice Award, [3]
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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "2011 Golden Geek Award Winners". Board Game Geek. BoardGameGeek, LLC. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ "Meeples Choice Awards". BoardGameGeek.
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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]
- 2011 winner of the BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award [2]
- 2011 winner of the Meeples' Choice Award, [3]
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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "2011 Golden Geek Award Winners". Board Game Geek. BoardGameGeek, LLC. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ "Meeples Choice Awards". BoardGameGeek.
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