Game Info
Year
2013
Players
2-4
Age
10+
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
1.2/5
Collection
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Description
A light card game where players collect koi fish into a pond or house and score on the lower of the two totals
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- really cool game
- neat little game
- small hand of cards and meaningful decisions
Cons
none
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Compound Scoring — Points in the pond are scored by matching the color of koi in the pond with cards in hand; lower values score.
- deck cycling / lake drawing — After 18 plays, river cards are pushed to the middle and a new round begins; players then draw from face-up cards in the middle (the lake).
- Hand Management — Start with three cards; the hand grows as new cards are dealt each round.
- pond color-matching scoring — Points in the pond are scored by matching the color of koi in the pond with cards in hand; lower values score.
- river area majority scoring — Points are awarded based on having the most koi of a specific color in the river.
- simultaneous action — Players simultaneously choose two cards per turn: one goes to the pond and one to the river; all selections are revealed together.
- Simultaneous Actions — Players simultaneously choose two cards per turn: one goes to the pond and one to the river; all selections are revealed together.
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- this is a very interesting small card game
- it's a neat little game
- i'm really excited about it
- the harbor expansion which changes that entirely where you just shuffle all the cards into a deck and you reveal them in a random order
- i think i'm just going to keep it until the expansion arrives and then play them together
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