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2024
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Description
Reflections in the Looking Glass is a curiously clever card game for 2 players featuring a beautiful cast of colorful characters from Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland stories. The rules are easy to understand and each round plays quickly, but the whimsical strategy wrapped up in the decision of which card to keep and which to give away in each linked pair while deducing if your opponent is trying for a positive or negative score could cause the most rational of adventurers to go slightly mad. At least you’ll be in good company.
—description from the back of the box
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Brains On Games Review at 0:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- quick, light, and approachable
- great introduction for kids (age 8+) to drafting and set collection
- blends tactic with forced choices by making opponents take unwanted cards
- strong artwork and theming around Alice in Wonderland
- randomized layout increases replayability
- teaches mental math and working memory
Cons
- two-player only (no solo or team variant)
Thematic elements
- set collection and card drafting in a two-sided, mirrored layout
- Alice in Wonderland theme with a mirrored Looking Glass tableau
- informational, experiential description with demo setup
Comparison games
- Seven Wonders Duel
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — on a turn, a player selects a card from the Tableau; the opponent simultaneously gains access to the matching card on the opposite side
- Compound Scoring — cards carry sun or moon icons; even/odd counts determine plus or minus signs, and the absolute value matters for final scoring
- mirror/Looking Glass interaction — taking a card from one side impacts the other side, influencing which cards are revealed or taken next
- scoring with sun/moon tokens — cards carry sun or moon icons; even/odd counts determine plus or minus signs, and the absolute value matters for final scoring
- Set Collection — players collect cards to form sets; three of a kind grants points, four of a kind reduces points
- Tableau Building — cards are laid out on two mirrored sides; some cards face each player while others are revealed as play progresses
- tableau with mirrored sides — cards are laid out on two mirrored sides; some cards face each player while others are revealed as play progresses
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- Reflections in the Looking Glass is a light set collecting card drafting game
- it's a two-player game but you can play it with kids age eight and up
- the artwork is great
- it's a great introduction to kids for this sort of set collecting card drafting mechanics
- the Jabberwocky poem referenced as well
- the randomized layout of the cards in the deck does add to the replayability
- you get that math exercise that you don't get with every single game that you play
- the two-player format can be a constraint for families with more than two players
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The Board Gaming Doctor Top List at 1:05 sentiment: positive
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positive
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Thematic elements
- Alice in Wonderland
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- I go over my top 10 favorite games from 2023 games that were published this year and are listed as such in this year for and on Board Game Geek
- I feel like I could accomplish what I would like to set out to do as far as solving this kind of puzzle in other games like Lisboa and so it it didn't quite reach the same excitement level
- The actions that you take are a little bit simpler and so it's a more streamlined version of what scythe could be
- I felt like the I guess the the Nuance to this game the tblo building wasn't as exciting to me
- it is such a deep and heavy game that it kind of passes passes that threshold and that that sweet spot for me for being very replayable
- The fact of building an engine and watching it be dissembled and having to continuously think about what you're going to be playing next to continue that engine is a really interesting puzzle
- The Disney IP which I do enjoy and is nostalgic for me
- there's a lot of interaction there's a lot of uh you know route building and uh you know piggybacking off of the work of other players as well
- this is the epitome of a card-based tblo builder
- this game epitomizes What U Rosenberg games are about
- This is the epitome of a card-based tableau builder.
- The mechanics of this game are really sound I I really enjoy everything that this game provides and it's always a fun time to play.
- This game is Uwe Rosenberg at his finest.
- This game is just fantastic and as you will see in my top games of all time it is pretty much up there.
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