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In Flipology, players try to score the most points over three rounds. At the start of the game, each player receives nine cards, then picks seven of them to arrange in a face-down row. On your turn, you must flip one of your seven cards (up or down), with some cards having effects that enable you to flip additional cards, including those owned by opponents. Cards depict animals in different types of environments, and they have different effects and point values depending on what's shown at round's end, such as the sloth which is worth positive points only if it's still face down. Aside from sloths and koalas, though, cards must end the game face up to contribute to a player's score.
In the "Great Tree" variant for 2-4 players, five cards are dealt to each player and two turns are taken. Then a second set of five cards cards are dealt out which go above the first row and two more turns are taken, with the added wrinkle that players now control two rows and adjacency means up and down as well as side to side. Finally, a third set of cards is dealt out and players take a final two turns, then calculate their total score.
—description from the publisher
- Very clever and simple mechanic.
- Works well for quick playtime (lunchtime, family).
- Fun and causes crazy things to happen.
- Good as a shelf filler.
- Full of cute critters.
- A bit of a novelty game.
- Might not be replayed immediately after a session.
- Cute critters, novelty
- Horde
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card flipping — Players arrange cards facedown and flip one each turn to trigger effects.
- Chain reactions — Flipping one card can cause others to flip, leading to cascading effects.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- the best thing I can say about the game is it's trying to do something different and I love that about it
- the tricky thing is you can't communicate with your teammate unless you're in the same space as them and that is a really bizarre dynamic to explore it a game
- while I think the ideas and far away are really cool added something a little different I think it might have been too complex again to try that isolation mechanic out on thirst
- Flipology is a very clever little game and it works by you dealt out a hand of cards and you arrange them facedown and then you flip one over each turn and then it will have an effect that will take place
- that simplicity works so well for a friendly lunchtime or family game
- amazingly they made a damn good game
- this is better than half the games on the market it's actually pretty good
- my inspirations were Lords of Waterdeep and viticulture so I took concepts from those games and blended them together
- it turned out to be one of my favorite games I played last year
- if you do or if you don't let me know in the comments
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