Minikin City

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• Card Drafting — Playing cards out in front of you, drafting new ones based on what you're playing.
• Tableau Building — This one is a kind of a tableau building game Playing cards out in front of you, drafting new ones based on what you're playing. And then activating on these cards scoring abilities by putting little mini kin people, tiny little critters, people, I don't know what they are. You're putting them on the card and when you have enough on the card and they have various uh requirements, boom, that scoring condition is now on and you're going to get more points for it.

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• this is the third in the Chronologic series. I love them all. I I care one whit about this theme, but I do like it's the hardest one of all three, and I find that crunchiness very satisfying. 8.5.
• Uh this is a very nice version. It's a half Carcassonne, half Labyrinth. I didn't think they could pull it off, but they did. And if you want to get people into playing board games for the first time, this is an excellent choice. 7.5.
• Collecting games and puzzles is a hobby for everyone.
• The Greasy Pole. My favorite little thing here is the sub caption here on the side. The label on the box for the game The Greasy Pole illustrates the fact that this version of Snakes and Ladders was meant to amuse rather than moralize.
• This is from 2004. This is an artifact. I am going to treasure this forever. Thank you, Patty Ward.

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• Trick-Taking — A smaller game offering a new take on the trick-taking genre.

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• And we're back for another year.
• So, first off, we're going to go with the light games worth hunting down this year.
• the rule book is easy to understand how those buoy cards work, as well as there is now a wild that is represented by a blowfish and it has a very, very high value.
• however, the same core mechanics are the same where you don't want to overfish, otherwise you're not going to get some of the new good fish that are um in the pile.
• if you haven't picked this up yet, this is very good. I'd highly recommend combining the two of them together and if you can, get the big red button expansion, which means once in the entire game, you're going to hit your big red button and just redraw your entire hand because sometimes you just get a karate hand.
• Nice and light push your luck game, although it's not really push your luck because there's no reason not to push your luck. Just keep going till you bust. You'll still get lots of points.
• really neat kind of video 8-bit game art.
• The trick here is that when you take those cards, they have to be placed in order, 1 2 3 4, 5 6 7 8, 9 10 11 12. So, that tableau is a fixed size. You don't get to decide where to put it.
• However, most of it is an art-based game, so it might not be the greatest for color-blind friendly. However, it looks really cool.
• Um so, it's got got a really cool little aspect to it. I would love to get my hands on a copy of this. However, it is Cranio Creations, so it will take a little bit to get here.
• So like the blowfish wants to be alone, uh and the octopus wants to hide behind coral reefs. So that one's really cool.
• This last one, I was not a huge fan of it, but a lot of people have been uh talking about it.
• And so if you're ever stuck and you're not able to get the day or the night point card, you're going to have to take the five-pointer card instead.
• So, those are 10 games that you can check out that are nice and light this year at Spiel Essen.
• Tune in next week and we will talk about more Essen titles.

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