Breathe deeply… Let the whisper of thought come to your ear… Harmonize your chakras and let go so that the negative energies will disappear. Meditate on your strategy and let your feelings guide you towards victory!
In Chakra, each player has a board that shows the seven chakras they must fill with gems that represent the energy flowing in their body. To score points, a player must harmonize each of their chakras in the best possible way. To do so, they must take the gems and place three of them of the corresponding color in each of the chakras. During a turn, each player (who starts the game with several inspiration tokens) chooses one of the three following actions:
Take up to three gems from one column and place them on top of their individual board — or by spending a token, place them in a more strategic position.
Spend one token to use one of eight available actions; moving gems up or down by the number of chakra spaces indicated on the action is the key to reaching a perfect alignment.
Meditate to reclaim an inspiration token and secretly look at the point value, which is common to all players, that a harmonized chakra (3 same-colored gems) will score.
When a player manages to align five of their chakras, the last turn is played before you perform the final scoring.
—description from the publisher
- Simple to teach
- Nice quaint puzzle game
- Hidden gem
- Not long
- No solo mode
- Best as two-player game
- Chakra harmonization in the body
- Abstract/Chakra alignment
- Abstract puzzle
- Four ring puzzle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Three actions available including a clear-up exercise
- Puzzle — Players match colored gems in columns to harmonize chakras
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's a nice quaint little puzzle game that most people have probably never heard of
- there's a lot of different ways to approach it but the rules pretty straightforward
- this is another underrated gem in my book
- area control game in 90 minutes or less there's not many of those around really
- really has kind of won me over as a really solid deck builder and i didn't think i'd be saying that very often
- it is so good in fact that this has the easy chance of hitting my top 100 next year
- i love how simple this game is but you've got a lot of decision making to do
- in terms of a modern cluedo there is no better version to get than this
- one of the easiest games to teach especially if you already know how to do trick taking games
- really low complexity ratio with a pretty decent amount of depth