Game Info
Year
2018
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Collection
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Description
Grackles are noisy, iridescent birds that love to gather on telephone wires at sunset throughout the southwestern United States. In the lightly-themed abstract strategy game Grackles, you line up your birds on the telephone wire to score as many points as possible. Each turn, players choose between drawing and placing a tile, connecting two spots on the telephone wire with their birds, extending a line of birds, or rotating an empty tile. After the board has been built to five tiles by five tiles and all available pairs of spots on the telephone wire have birds on them, the player with the most birds on the telephone wire wins.
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positive
Pros
- Creative theme
- Plays quickly
- Rules light but strategy deep
- Fun
Cons
- More difficult to get longer lines at higher player counts (4 players vs 2 players)
Thematic elements
- Birds on telephone wires
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- line building — you can build a line of your birds... whoever has the most birds tokens on the board at the end of the game is the winner.
- Line Extension — you can extend a line. ... you cannot ever then take a 90° turn off of your line, and you can't ever cross your line. Nobody else can cross your line, either.
- Tile Placement — you are going to be building a 5 by 5 grid. We can't go outside of that 5 by 5 parameter, but when you place a tile you can place it in any orientation you want as long as it is connecting the telephone lines.
- Tile rotation — you can rotate an empty tile as your turn. You can only do that five times.
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- So, I think this game is very creative and it's one of those that when you're playing at four, it is much more difficult to get longer lines than when you're playing at two in that head-to-head fashion. But, I think Rakkle's is a great strategy game that plays quickly. It's rules light but strategy deep and is just a lot of fun.
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