For countless years, the Café de Paris has offered moments of carefree relaxation and a wonderful opportunity to pause and breathe amid a bustling city. Unfortunately, the café must close for emergency renovation to ensure that it continues to attract numerous guests.
In Intarsia, players compete for the contract for the coveted redesign work on the parquet, embellishing it with stylish intarsias. To win the contract, players have to prove their skills by refining the floor with stylish inlays and outdoing their competitors with new tools.
Each floor ornament can consist of one to four filigree wooden elements that are puzzled together from the outside inwards. The more pieces the ornament consists of, the more victory points it scores! During the building phase, wooden elements can be paid for with material cards and built according to the building rules. Whoever fulfills the requirement for a tool receives the tile that scores points. Only the person with the best building skills can secure the contract and give the café a new lease of life!
The B-side of the floor plan offers variation for this clever and high-quality placement game.
—description from the publisher
- Beautiful components and design
- Strong contract/set-collection dynamic
- Niche title; may be overlooked by broader audiences
- set collection and contract fulfillment in a tactile, aesthetic package
- Tile-laying with contracts and order fulfillment
- contract-driven progression with visual appeal
- Zuul
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Order Fulfillment — Complete contracts to earn rewards and chain bonuses.
- set collection — Gather sets to maximize points and bonuses.
- tile placement — Place tiles to create contracts and build your board.
- Tile-laying — Place tiles to create contracts and build your board.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Play Chin. Play this obscure Canitia game.
- Speculation. That's a great I'm looking at my things. Speculation.
- I would play Entaria over Zuul. And I tell you what, I would play Entaria genuinely.
- This game is similar to Mysterium, but I think Obscurio is better.
- Thousands and thousands of board games are released every year.
References (from this video)
- Strategic card usage
- Multiple ways to score points
- Interesting tool tile mechanic
- Complexity might be challenging for new players
- Crafting wooden ornaments
- Artisan workshop
- Competitive crafting
- Azul
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card management — Players use colored cards to build wooden ornament elements
- Resource management — Limited cards and wood elements to build ornaments
- set collection — Collecting tool tiles for victory points
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- With limited resources and time every decision counts
- The player with the most points from completed ornaments and collected tool tiles will be crowned the master Artisan