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In Seasons of Rice, Corry Damey’s 18-card tribute to his Cambodian heritage, players are farmers puzzling together paddy cards to expand their family’s “landscape” of rice paddies and ensure the most bountiful of harvests.
Players will be drafting cards and placing them into their expanding landscape area to close off paddies in order to score the most points by the end of the game.
—description from the publisher
A game takes place across two separate seasons (drafting phases): first the Wet Season, then the Dry Season.
Players begin the game during the Wet Season with a hand of 7 paddy cards. Each Wet Season turn, they simultaneously select 2 cards from their hand: 1 to immediately place into their personal landscape and 1 to place into a communal row of cards called the Dry Season row. Players then exchange their hands and repeat until all cards have been placed.
In the Dry Season, players take turns selecting 1 card from the Dry Season row and immediately placing it into their landscape. When the Dry Season row is empty, the game is over.
Players have an opportunity to score points during both seasons by fully enclosing their paddies with paths. They will score for the size of a “closed” paddy, which can be increased by adding houses, as well as for farmers (a player’s family members) and buffaloes contained within the paddy. A player-specific “ancestor,” representing the guiding spirit of a revered forebear, will also award that player additional points for achieving certain conditions.
Strategically, opportunities abound in the card-rich Wet Season, when all share in a plenitude of resources and hands overflow with possibilities. Players must still think ahead to the Dry Season, though, when options will rapidly dwindle as the Dry Season row runs out of cards. The deck is micro and rounds are quick, but a sustainable plan for organically generating points is a must across the seasons.
In the end, the player with the most points wins and may proudly boast of having the most fertile rice paddies in the region!
- Good puzzle element
- Liked more than Pizza Yum Yum
- Not an A-rank game
- Pizza Yum Yum
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- Wingspan amazing amazing my most favorite game ever. You know that. So of course Srank
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- And then Aon's End, of course, always gets an S for me. It's my most favorite solo game, and that will probably not change for a while.
- And then I've also finally gotten Seventh Content. I got a like a huge collection. I've got almost everything that you can get at retail, uh, including like the cool white box and stuff. Um, and I would give this I've only played this once, but I would give it an A for now.
- Loads of A ranks this time. Not bad. Not bad. Um, and a lot of B's as well and quite a lot of S's. No D's this time and only a few C's.
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- Compact and portable (pocket-size, 18 cards).
- Expanding rice paddies to ensure bountiful harvests.
- Cambodia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — In the dry season, players will draft the remaining cards from the dry row until all cards are gone.
- Hand Management — At the start of the game, each player is going to have seven patty cards to form their hand.
- Set Collection/Pattern Building — Players are making paths, patties, and connecting grid lines together.
- Tile Placement — In the wet season, each player is going to select two patty cards, one to place on their landscape and one to place in the communal center area.
- Variable scoring conditions — The ancestor cards give you different ways to score and different powers.
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- This is a pocket-size card game for two players that has only 18 cards in it.
- In Seasons of Rice, players are Cambodian farmers expanding their rice patties to ensure the most bountiful of harvests.
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- Expensive shipping to Germany
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- I do have my nine to five day job right and then also I've been doing a lot of reviews and other things for the channel
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