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In Beach Dogs you do your best to help your human collect shells on the beach. Not only will you find the best shells, but you'll also protect him from angry crabs by stomping on them! Crabs are tasty so those are good too. When the day is done the doggo that helped their human the most wins!
Beach Dogs is a quick game played across 12 rounds(waves). Each wave you choose to help out your human on the beach in the sand or dive into the surf to try and grab a shell. All sorts of surprises await in the beach and waves decks as you try to collect sets of cards worth points and counter cards that could hurt your score.
When the wave deck runs out the game is over. Determine the winner by tallying up all the shells you've found, subtracting any points for live crabs and adding points for any you were able to stomp. The player with the most points is Top Dog!
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- it was our first trip to gen con in indianapolis also known as the best four days in gaming
- we have a very expensive toll highway in our neck of the woods so we always tell our map apps to ignore toll roads which means it's also going to ignore the toll tunnel and the toll bridges that would get us across the border in a reasonable amount of time so instead we drove through buffalo which i mean i don't recommend it that means we took the scenic route down to indianapolis which we are expecting to be about an eight-hour drive it was 13.
- gencon was being super safe this year by requiring masks and proof of vaccinations so the first task was to wait in this unbelievably long line to show our vaccination papers
- if you want to go hit the comment section complaining about masks and vaccines don't even bother because i'm going to delete it
- we thought for sure that attending a conference of 50 000 people will get the job done but we stayed masked all week and when we got home look at that no covid it's funny how that works
- if you're gonna go to gen con i definitely recommend eating first and lining up later
- multiple cge reps described as bonkers so i can't wait
- i thought the component quality was a little crummy even in this deluxe version
- indianapolis wound up being my least favorite city that starts with i and ends in indianapolis
- Match madness duo turned out to be a compelling hit
- i just could close my eyes for a little bit
- this was my favorite mask of the show by the way
- detroit seemed way cooler than indianapolis by the way let's have gencon there next year
- cheryl jerry rigged these tim hortons cups as rain barrels to keep us dry