by mmurbach
Yes that is the best board. In my last game, I scored 293 points on it. That is with only 5 animals matching (and the +1 tile). Had I gotten the 6th animal to match, I would have had 307 points.I only had 3 empty spaces, all boat spaces. Had I never sold goods, I could have filled one more space. I had 4 silver left (before end of game mine production), so had there been more boats in the black market, I could have bought those. I know I had at least a couple of buildings that did not allow me to take or place a building, so if I had taken such buildings and gotten lucky on the dice, I believe I could have filled the board.