Game Info
Year
2025
Players
3-5
Age
10+
Playtime
75 min
Complexity
2.3/5
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Description
Fú: Festive Fortunes is a highly interactive game in which the Chinese zodiac animals celebrate Chinese New Year by buying festive treats and exchanging red envelopes. Players compete to score the most Fortune by welcoming visitors and eating the best snacks across several years split into festival phases.
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- And today we're here to teach you how to play Foo Festive Fortunes.
- FU is designed by Ho Een and it's published by King in the Pawn Games who help sponsor this video.
- Fu is played over five rounds or years in this case.
- In the shopping phase, starting with a player with a number one turn marker, you go clockwise and take turns placing family tokens until everyone has taken two turns.
- Jasmine tea works slightly differently. only when eating.
- After you've completed the fifth year, you're now ready for final scoring.
- It is coming to crowdfunding after all.
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Thematic elements
- generosity and hospitality during a festival
- at home during a festive celebration with guests, featuring a dining table, snacks, decorations
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- annual cycle — five years of play with setup refresh and decoration redraw between years
- Card/Chit Market — players place family tokens on market to buy snacks or decorations, or take money; may skip; max two snacks; payment per snack
- Compound Scoring — end-of-year scoring from snacks, decorations, and money; final scoring after five years; winner by fortune with tie-break based on snacks eaten
- Decorations — decorations provide passive or one-time abilities; max two decorations at a time; can replace existing ones
- eating phase — eat snacks in sections chosen by players; Jasmine tea acts as a wild token; order determined by generosity track and ties broken by reverse turn order
- prototype/crowdfunding note — the game is a prototype and may change; crowdfunding planned
- scoring — end-of-year scoring from snacks, decorations, and money; final scoring after five years; winner by fortune with tie-break based on snacks eaten
- setup and market board — arrange market board in the middle, fortune track, snack stalls, decorations, year marker, money, and home boards for players
- shopping phase — players place family tokens on market to buy snacks or decorations, or take money; may skip; max two snacks; payment per snack
- visiting phase — prepare red envelopes for other players with money to trade for snacks; exchange envelopes and reveal; affects generosity track
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Quotes (from this video)
- And today we're here to teach you how to play Foo Festive Fortunes.
- FU is designed by Ho Een and it's published by King in the Pawn Games who help sponsor this video.
- Fu is played over five rounds or years in this case.
- In the shopping phase, starting with a player with a number one turn marker, you go clockwise and take turns placing family tokens until everyone has taken two turns.
- Jasmine tea works slightly differently. only when eating.
- After you've completed the fifth year, you're now ready for final scoring.
- It is coming to crowdfunding after all.
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