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Photo Tour: North America
2025Oleg Meleshin, Eugene Timashov, Yury Yamshchikov
- Videos
- 7
- Creators
- 6
Mostly playthroughs and reviews. Photo Tour: North America is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, and 3 recorded sessions.
1 - 5 players
40 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
From BoardGameGeek
Photo Tour is a game that allows you to travel and take stunning photographs of beautiful places in the USA and Canada. As a photographer, you aim to capture attractions and place their cards in your traveler's diary (player's mat). Each photo taken has a unique ability that allows you to build a card engine to make each turn more efficient. Players take turns and perform 1 of 4 basic actions: Planning. Choose 1 of the available attraction cards and take it in your hand to visit on one of your next moves. Movement. Choose 1 available transport dice and move across the game board by the chosen method - airplane, bus, or car. Photo Equipment Renting. Choose 1 available equipment token and place it in your travel journal to create more interesting photos during the photo shoot. Taking a photo. While in the right location, place the landmark card from your hand into your travel journal. You can enhance the photo by using camera tokens to gain additional victory points. Build the card "engine" to activate bonus effects of visited attractions or use one-time bonuses of your travel journal. Use strong combinations of bonuses to make each turn better and better. -description from the publisher
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Which Photo Tour: North America video should I watch?
Photo Tour: North America has 7 videos from 6 creators: 2 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides and 3 playthroughs. They date from 2024 to October 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "How to Play Photo Tour" by Bitewing Games, which runs 9 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Photo Tour: North America Review: Goin’ Each and Every Place With The Cam In Their Hand" by The Dice Tower. To see it played, watch "Photo Tour: North America Playthrough | Pumped Up Kickstarters" by Foster the Meeple, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Cryptic Nature, Pacific Ocean and Champions of Wind & Fire, also by Oleg Meleshin, or Evolution: Another World, also by Yury Yamshchikov.
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About Photo Tour: North America
From BoardGameGeek:
Photo Tour is a game that allows you to travel and take stunning photographs of beautiful places in the USA and Canada. As a photographer, you aim to capture attractions and place their cards in your traveler's diary (player's mat). Each photo taken has a unique ability that allows you to build a card engine to make each turn more efficient. Players take turns and perform 1 of 4 basic actions: Planning. Choose 1 of the available attraction cards and take it in your hand to visit on one of your next moves. Movement. Choose 1 available transport dice and move across the game board by the chosen method - airplane, bus, or car. Photo Equipment Renting. Choose 1 available equipment token and place it in your travel journal to create more interesting photos during the photo shoot. Taking a photo. While in the right location, place the landmark card from your hand into your travel journal. You can enhance the photo by using camera tokens to gain additional victory points. Build the card "engine" to activate bonus effects of visited attractions or use one-time bonuses of your travel journal. Use strong combinations of bonuses to make each turn better and better. -description from the publisher
Designers
Oleg Meleshin, Eugene Timashov, Yury Yamshchikov
Artists
Dmitry Isakevich, Ekaterina Opletaeva, Anastasia Shutova
Publisher
Timashov Publishing
Categories
Mechanics
ContractsDice RollingEnd Game BonusesGrid Movement