In Crystal Palace players take on the role of a nation at the time of the first World Fair in London (1851) trying to create a buzz with spectacular inventions & the support of famous & powerful people Crystal Palace is a dice-placement game in which the players themselves determine the stats of their dice at the beginning of each round The higher the number the better &8212; but it comes at a price In the course of the game dice are placed on eight action locations (Patent Office Reform Club London Times Port of London Waterloo Station British Museum Bank of England Westminster) in a competition for the best resources patents & brains In a world of slightly weird inventions you will meet people like Phileas Fogg Levi Strauss & Amelia Edwards & invent gadgets such as the Thinking machine the Beer glass counter or the Climate changer Take part in the first world's fair of 1851 by inventing unique items like the climate changer Dice placement where you set the value of your dice each round High player interaction