A road requires brick and lumber. A settlement requires brick, lumber, wool, & grain. A city requires three ore and two grain. A development requires ore, wool, and grain. To upgrade to the bronze age requires three wool and two brick. A sentry gun requires one wool, two grain, and ore. A McDonald's requires three brick and two lumber. A nuclear deterrent requires four wool. An archipelago requires three one brick, one lumber, one wool, and four grain. If you have 17 wool in your hand, you may shout "sheep kang" and win the game.

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• Physical Google Wallet credit card reportedly revealed in leaked app
• FTC in favor of suing Google for patent antitrust violations, says Bloomberg
• UK court orders Apple to rewrite 'untrue' Samsung apology
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