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Leave no stone unturned! Nine mystical tiles lie before you in a grid of rocky ruins. Rearrange the tiles to match one or more of the patterns in your hand. The catch is that you must sacrifice a card every time you swap or flip a tile. Carve out the most points in Shifting Stones, and your victory will be set in stone!
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Year Published
2020
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Foster the Meeple general_discussion at 3:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- puzzle-like
- fast to play
Cons
- rules clarity can be tricky initially
Thematic elements
- pattern matching and pattern fulfillment
- Abstract puzzle setting built around shifting stones
- abstract
Comparison games
- Tetris-style mosaics
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern recognition — Players aim to arrange stones to match objective patterns.
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Quotes (from this video)
- “it's another episode of board games and brew where we don't have brew”
- “we launched our merch store”
- “Arc Nova is a tableau builder”
- “it's been chaos because everybody is trying to outsmart everybody”
- “159 games in a week or 10 days”
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Stoneard Games general_discussion at 21:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Elegant, thinky puzzle
- Accessible two-player abstract with depth
Cons
- Limited player count may reduce replay variety for larger groups
Thematic elements
- abstract strategy with a stone/pattern motif
- Two-player abstract logic game with pattern matching on a 3x3 grid
- abstract, no explicit story
Comparison games
- Number Drop
- Fantasy Realms
- QE
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- pattern matching — Players try to match tile patterns to scoring cards on their hand.
- tile manipulation — On a turn a player may move, swap, or flip stones to alter the pattern landscape.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's a beautiful game. It's not an expensive game.
- This is a mind puzzle in addition to the physical puzzle.
- Number Drop is another puzzly kind of game.
- This is a closed bidding collection game. You can bid as much as you want.
- Fantasy Realms is a card game where you're putting together a hand and there are these symbiotic relationships among the cards.
- One Deck Dungeon was actually a major inspiration for Vantage.
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