Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
1.3/5
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Description
Stack slide and steal the most valuable sets of fruit in a dynamic marketplace with toppling mechanic
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Unknown Review at 0:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Easy to explain and teach
- Deep strategic choices and juicy decisions
- Excellent artwork and production
- Solid 2- to 4-player scalability
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Market manipulation and set collection with scoring based on top piles
- Competitive fruit market setting in a card drafting/collection game
- Abstract, strategic
Comparison games
- Desert Oasis
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cat and wild cards — Cat removes a fruit from a market; wild can be placed anywhere to count flexibly.
- draw and endgame flow — Deck runs out but play continues with final turns before scoring.
- end game bonuses — Deck runs out but play continues with final turns before scoring.
- hand management — Players start with five cards and draw up to five cards each turn, managing what they play.
- market stacks — Five market piles of fruit are laid out; players add to and manipulate these stacks to create value.
- Movement actions — Actions include adding cards to a pile, combining stacks of the same type, and sliding a stack to fill spaces.
- set scoring with top three piles — At scoring, only the top three piles are scored; other fruit types can impose negative points.
- Stacking and Balancing — If a stack reaches a certain value (five), it topples and can cause adjacent topples.
- topple mechanic — If a stack reaches a certain value (five), it topples and can cause adjacent topples.
- Two-action turns — On a turn, a player may perform up to two actions (e.g., add, combine, slide, or cat-eat).
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Quotes (from this video)
- Fruit Boss is an excellent game.
- Fruit Boss, fantastic game that you can explain easily, but gives you huge depth of strategy.
- Loving what West Coast Games is putting out.
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Cardboard Herald Top 10 List at 7:20 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
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Quotes (from this video)
- This wacky deck builder is just so much pure fun.
- one of the greatest ratios of fun to rules complexity ratio I have ever seen
- I could play this for hours and hours and hours on end and never get bored.
- space age rocket launching good old time.
- The secrecy of playing cards face down and never knowing if you're winning a lane.
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