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Fall is here, the woods have been watered by the rain and the mushrooms have sprouted! You and your green-fingered friends are ready to go to your favorite mushroom patches to pick girolles, morels, boletes and Parasol mushrooms! Be careful though, there are others who have found these secret mushroom patches!
Use your talent for mushroom picking to make sure you have the most delicious harvest!
Use your talent to identify the best mushroom patches in these woods,
Harvest Parasol mushrooms, boletes, girolles and morels,
Share your secrets if you want to harvest even more mushrooms.
Will you have the most delicious harvest?
—description from the publisher
Year Published
2022
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Ryan and Bethany board game reviews game_review at 0:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cute, tactile components (baskets and mushrooms); approachable and adorable
- Thinky drafting mechanic that remains accessible for families
- Good length; tight and replayable without overstaying its welcome
- Strong appeals to both kids and parents; easy to teach
Cons
- Information hiding can be challenging for some players and may slow the pace for those seeking rapid decisions
- Theme is light and may not appeal to players seeking deeper narrative
- End-game scoring requires processing several values, which could be a mild barrier for very casual players
Thematic elements
- Hidden information, risk management, and deduction in a light, family-friendly mushroom-foraging setting
- Fantasy woodland where players forage magical mushrooms and collect points
- Light, whimsical, puzzle-like
Comparison games
- Deal or No Deal
- Monty Hall problem (concept)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bonus mushrooms for most baskets — The player who used the most baskets on each mushroom earns a bonus mushroom.
- drafting — Players acquire mushrooms by placing baskets; left-most column determines value and cost for the next player.
- drafting / set collection — Players acquire mushrooms by placing baskets; left-most column determines value and cost for the next player.
- End-game scoring with value multipliers — At end, mushrooms are multiplied by their underlying values (1, 3, 5, 7) for final scoring.
- Hidden information / partial information — Mushroom values are hidden behind boards; players reveal some information to influence choices while keeping some information secret.
- Resource management — Baskets are used to purchase mushrooms; players manage baskets to optimize picks.
- Resource management (baskets) — Baskets are used to purchase mushrooms; players manage baskets to optimize picks.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's just the baskets and the mushrooms that's all
- I thought this game was super cute and adorable
- I love the drafting of the mushrooms in this game
- it's extremely simple and very approachable and yet all throughout the entire thing I was interested
- I did not expect the psychological twister to be happening... Monty Hall problem-esque thing going on in this game show Theory
- our six-year-old understood this game
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Foster the Meeple general_discussion at 6:59
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's like giving your games a grade like a letter grade
- it's all subjective nothing matters our ranks it's our ranks it's all subjective
- we have to come to some sort agreement on disagreements probably a lot
- we are two different people we like different things
- this is our list and it's completely subjective and none of this matters in the grand scheme of Life 100%
- we're just adults playing with toys
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