8/30/2023 – Berkshire Gamers Session Report #23-35
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16 gamers at our final session at Purple Dragon Games
(led by Tim P) 2007 Alice in Wonderland themed hand management and set collection card game
2x (led by K-ban/Sean) 2023 sequel to Point Salad from the same team of designers. Mix a dash of Splendor with a healthy dose of Point Salad for a very accessible city engine builder. The mechanic of drafting adjacent 2-sided cards (resource on one side/ building on the other) and their replacements being flipped to their opposite side is a new twist.
(led by Tim) 2021 contract-fulfillment game of 15th century printing in which players bid on turn order in each phase of the game. Each player has a number of resource cubes that they secretly assign to the five different phases, and whoever assigned the most cubes gets to draft the associated items first. Things that can be drafted are two-part contracts, ink to enhance contracts, cards that let you move up on tracks to fulfill requirements for contracts, gears that provide rotating benefits, and either a minor bonus or a big end-game point card. All the contracts also require specific combinations of letter types, which can be acquired for increasing costs.
(led by Sean) 2023 set collection, worker placement game. Each turn, players perform their choice of actions, including taking plates of sushi off the revolving ‘belt’ on the board, paying staff tiles for effects, buying side dishes and more. As players eat, plates will be stacked in front of you. Points are scored by eating off matching Plates, and for eating a wide variety of sushi types. Pay attention as you never know when someone will start a Wasabi Challenge!
When the side dish deck runs out, the game ends and players calculate their victory points.
(led by Armando) 2022 Dirk Henn (Alhambra, Show Manager, Metro, Shogun/Wallenstein) design that could have been a roll & write with laminated boards and dry-erase pens, but instead Queen Games decided to go ‘green’ and use hundreds of cardboard arrow pieces on player boards. Six different colored dice are rolled for all to use – either sequentially from left to right or right to left. The d6 numbers are used to complete power lines and earn scoring bonuses. The game limits how many dice one can use as well as penalties for skipping dice in a sequence.
16 gamers at our final session at Purple Dragon Games A sincere thanks to Niko for making our group welcome for 111 consecutive Wednesday evenings of board games. And thanks to our group for purchasing a considerable amount of Niko’s remaining inventory as our farewell tribute to his generosity. On Wednesday September 6, we begin a…
16 gamers at our final session at Purple Dragon Games A sincere thanks to Niko for making our group welcome for 111 consecutive Wednesday evenings of board games. And thanks to our group for purchasing a considerable amount of Niko’s remaining inventory as our farewell tribute to his generosity. On Wednesday September 6, we begin a…