Evenglow | 2 Player Board Game Playthrough | Mirror Every Plant Tile You Place
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Red. Did I give you exactly what you needed?
Oh, no.
Oh, that was beautiful.
Oopsies.
Okay. Ready for my presentation?
No.
My lucky. And it's my lucky number 17.
I'm getting this.
I was born on the 17.
Now I have all f all three of them.
Watch this, Tyler. On this one, I am joining my humongous vine.
Wow.
And on this one, I am creating a mandrake line.
Wow. which means I'll put a harvest marker on it.
Hello everybody, my name is IA
and my name is Tyler together makeup, a couple that loves to play board games.
And today we'll be playing Evenlow.
Even Glow is a one to four player game designed by Jason Catswinkle and published by the OP games who help sponsor this video.
Let's go to the table and let's get to playing. And we're at the table.
Yeah.
Look at our beautiful sunlight garden and moonlight garden.
Yes. Now, in this game, what we'll be doing is we're going to be selecting cards that I will plant, but in doing so, Tyler will have some plants to plant. Then, we'll place those in mirrored positions of our gardens because we are alchemists and we're trying to make sure that we maximize our placement of all of the different plants so we can harness as much energy and score the most points.
Yes.
Now, in the beginning of the game, we do have a setup card. Essentially, this tells you who gets what. In a two-player game, player one gets these two, and they get placed in the number 14 position,
and player two gets these two, and they get placed in the 14 position.
Wow.
That is just the starting setup. That is why we did what we did.
And we each have a card in our hand that we will play through, and you will see exactly how it works.
So, I'm the first player, hence this little board pointing towards me. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take my card and I'm going to position it in such a way that I want to collect these two different tiles. Now, the tiles that I position away from me are tiles that Tyler is going to collect and he will place those on the board. Now, when placing tiles, we can place anywhere, but we have to place on both the boards and they have to be in mirrored positions. So, for example, I can take two tiles and place them both on the number 17 opposite of each other.
Now, why do we want to place all those tiles? Well, the board tells you exactly why they all score in different ways based on how they're placed. Vines, for example, we're trying to build the biggest group as the biggest group will score a point per tile in that vine.
Each of them
in each of them. So, you get to do that twice.
Uh leaves, we get to score two points for every leaf connected to your largest vine group in each of the gardens.
Henbane flowers, they want to be in pairs. If they're in Paris, they'll score two points. And if they're not touching the perimeter, meaning they're somewhere on the center, neither of the tiles is touching the perimeter, they'll score another two points. You can score four points for each of the handbait sets. Lions manes want to be in threes. If they're in threes, they'll score three points. If, however, they're in a triangle position. Tell them to see a triangle.
Then we'll get a potion.
Mhm.
And potions not only will score additional points, but they give you abilities you can use to help manipulate some of your board. Now, magicks want to be in sets of four, and if they're in a straight line, that's when you'll get a potion. And elderbererries want to be in a group of five. And any of the tiles in that exact group of five that touch the perimeter will score you a point.
Now, additionally, you will get a potion if you can figure any five of the elderberry tiles together.
Uh, potions are great cuz if you also collect one of each, you'll get another three points. Points are good.
Yes. Yep.
And that's essentially the game. We're going to take turns playing cards. Once I play a card, I'm going to draw a new card. We're going to keep going till the deck runs out. There's 20 cards total, so going to be 20 turns and 20 tiles that will go onto this board. Once we're done, we'll score and we'll see who wins. Just a couple of things. The Mandre and the lion's mane, like IA said, are shape specific. So, you have to do that and they're exactly that number. So, if I had four mushrooms together, I won't score anything.
No. But Tyler, if you do have three that are not in a triangle, you'll still score for them. You just will not get the potion.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and you'll see us do this later on, but if you do get a potion, you'll also get one of these harvest tiles. This essentially locks all those tiles in place, meaning you can't ever manipulate or change them using any of the abilities.
Exactly.
Ready to play?
Yeah.
Let me do I like this. Let's do that.
Okay.
So, then I will get a vine.
Oh, you have to pass me a
and an elderberry.
Also, I think when you were explaining this one, you said that each of them are worth two. It's actually just fair is worth two.
It should be a set.
It should be really easy for me. You would think.
Is it not coming to you?
No. I'll go like this. Done.
Now, we have both placed our tiles. This card will go on the discard. I will draw a new card. And now it is Tyler's turn.
There's obviously also Ilia decided to play adjacently, but there's no adjacency rules in this. I don't have to place right next to something.
Both of these are valid examples.
I'll do this. So, I get this and this and I get flowers or leaves. Petals, leaves.
Leaves
and lion's mane. I'll
do this and this.
Let's go this one.
Oh my goodness.
Both of these are valid placement. They're not.
It was supposed to be like this. Uhoh. Hold on.
Illegal placement.
All right. I will do.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with just shifting one of those over. Oh, I see. Never mind. There is something wrong with shifting them over.
There we go.
All right. Now, take your take your
Now I took my two.
I'm going to go 19.
Mhm.
That [snorts] is so funny.
Is it?
It is. You're supposed to call me out and be like, I not a mirror.
Uh, I was too busy explaining the adjacent. There's no agency rule.
I got you.
All right. That's That's my active turn. And then it's now it's Ilia's again.
We'll rotate the board so it points to me.
Mhm.
So I have this.
Mhm.
And I think I want it to go this way.
Okay. And then you have to pass me a henbane.
You and your handbains.
I already know where this is going for sure. Go. 13. 13. I'm gonna have to say the numbers out loud so I'm not a fool.
All right. Hold on.
Let's get going in this game. It's pretty quick.
The choices. No, I'm going to do this.
The potions are pretty handy because they allow you to manipulate some of your board and potentially even swap tiles, which is really handy.
Mhm. So, do you get them early or do you hold off?
You definitely get them early because you can use them at any time. You don't have to use them right away. This feels silly, but I'm going to do it. Oh, no. Yeah.
So, yellows, we want a straight line. I think this makes sense. Let's try this. So, I'm going to connect these two. So, this is interesting because although the leaves do connect to the vines, they actually are two separate vines cuz these vines are not joined. And you can see there's a clear gap between them. So, I need to make sure I join them in order to score them at the end of the game.
Exactly. All right. I don't know if we've actually been Have you been rotating this?
Yeah.
Every single time cuz then I know whose turn it is.
You do it this time.
Uh, tricky tricky. Do I get into the henbane game? I think I do.
Henbane game.
Let's do this.
Oh, interesting. This
Oh, no. This one's up. Ah, I'm making a mess.
Stop making a mess.
Oopsies.
Oh no. What have I done?
Right. I don't have to place adjacently. So, I could do something clever. Oh, but that's a bad mix cuz these want to be on the outside and these want to be on the inside. So, either way, it's a losing game.
It's a losing game. I guess I could go here.
You're doing exactly what I'm doing. You're keeping three colors to one and three to the other. Well, I'm I'm actually wondering. That's why I'm trying to decide if I should split this off now and go like this. Maybe I will just
It's fine to maximize.
N I'll do that. There.
Good.
Yep.
Okay. This one gets discarded. I get a card.
And a board flips towards you. Oh, maybe that. Oh, I should have looked at this while I was trying to make the decision because it does make my decision
because you do know what's coming next.
Yeah, active flare, mushroom, and ow.
I'm okay.
Are you okay? And then I get elderberries and more handmade, which you know what? I'll take
not because I want
place on the five.
Okay.
On the five.
Okay. Then this go here. Okay. Done.
Done. Good.
Okay. I will go here.
Mhm.
To get myself some vines.
Why you give me this
and lines? I honestly I feel like it's so hard to focus on your board. I'm just focusing on my own.
Well, yeah. But
so, but look at that, Tyler. I did it. I made a lion's main triangle.
Oh, nice.
Which means I get to harvest it. I lock it into place and I draw one of these cards.
Now, this card lets me swap positions of any two unlock tiles.
So, I cannot swap any of these, but I can swap any tiles. Two on the same board, two on this board. It doesn't matter as long as I swap their position. I like some flexibility for later on.
Mhm.
Did you place?
No, I or Yeah, I took those already. Okay. I'm trying I was just trying to decide how I wanted to place my thing. All right. This goes here. And then I'll do this, I think. So, oh, I need a henbane, I guess.
Handbane free. Oh, no. Two. Hang on. Is that Yeah, that's
one henbane. And I get Mandre and an elderberry. Oh, Tyler, you're breaking my beautiful color combination.
Oopsies. Do I try going for it? I think I do. I'm going to go one and one.
Ready? Yes. Boom.
Oh, no.
Mhm.
I was trying to build a yellow line here, but I forgot I was doing that.
So, I'll have to settle for something less good, which is okay.
Not terrible.
Not terrible. I'll allow it. I think I'm doing this.
Okay.
Oh,
no. Handbane, please.
You love your handbags.
You keep giving them to me. I'm going to go magic here and then pedal to the metal right here. Oh, that's so risky.
Silly me. Why? I keep not mirroring. Okay, let's go four. And four. I'm funny.
Funny. Funny.
Or do I do seven? No, I'm going to do seven. That's better. There we go.
Okay, good. Yes. Well, not good because I have no idea what I'm going to do here. Come on, get the alchemy ready.
Okay, I guess this another henbane, please. I'm really committing to him. Might as well. That can be your specialty. [sighs] [gasps] Look, look what you're making me do.
Look what you just made me do.
Uh, I think I'm going to do 12 and then go here.
All right,
that is correct.
Oh, I forgot to switch that. But we knew what we were doing. You forgot to switch who it pointed to.
Yeah, me neither.
Well, now it's pointing to me, so I get to go do the thing.
Sure, I'll do this.
Oh my goodness.
Here's your head made. You're doing this on purpose now.
I am not. I just I don't want it.
Uhhuh. I have to do this. That's unfortunate.
I'm going to do the 023. Is that okay? That is okay. Let's do that. 23. 23. Very interesting. You good?
Yes.
Switch. Draw.
Rotate.
Rotate.
This one. Take the mushroom and the mandrake.
Did you just give me a henbane?
And I get a potion. Yeah. Have the henbane. I get the mandre potion. Uhoh, this one's different. It says, "As a turn, plant a tile from the active player side and a tile from the everyone else side of the draft board." So, I get a little bit more freedom on which ones I can choose.
You can do that either turn. So, he can do that on his turn or my turn.
And the nice thing is is I still get the points. It's just I I have the ability. You get the bonus for basically making the shape.
Tyler, this is difficult. Oopsies.
I think I'm going here for the henbane and then here.
Yeah,
I'll do that.
All right, let's swap this around.
The mirroring sometimes breaks my brain.
That's why the numbers exist.
The if if there was no numbers, my brain would 100% break. I have to like out loud say 23 23 23.
Yeah.
Mhm.
Okay, I need to do this before I lose the opportunity to do so. What the heck?
Which means I get one of each of these.
And then
so many mushrooms.
I think one of these might be a throwaway, unfortunately. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this to form that. And then this one will have to go here. And it's my sata. That probably won't do anything. Three. And three. I get the mushroom one now. Oh, hang on. Is this an opportunity for me to actually get the use the potion? No, I don't think that's right. Okay, there. Okay, all done.
We'll discard this.
Yep.
I draw a card. We rotate this.
Uhhuh.
And now it is you.
It is me. I have to decide how I want to play this. I think it's like this though. The most obvious one is that it's like this. It gets trickier.
I think it is like this
as the game goes on.
What does this one do? Stop. Swap positions of any two unlocked tiles. Okay, it is that I'll take a green and a red and I think it's either 19. It is 19.
I'm going to do something spicy.
This is more
I'm going to place the three here and then the three here. And Tyler, ready? Watch this. I'm using a potion. Swap position of any two unlock tiles. So once you use it, you flip it.
Uhhuh.
And I'm going to swap positions of these two tiles. Making my line straight again.
Oh, look at you go.
Were you trying to look at my hand blocking?
Yeah. Hello. I can't see.
I don't have anything fancy going on like that.
I feel pretty good.
Three different sets of mushrooms on this side.
I feel pretty good.
Okay. Honestly, the the power ability of the last of the fifth potion is pretty good.
Replace one.
The tincture of transmutation.
It's pretty great
because you can make one tile into any tile, which can't complain about.
And you have to I think now is a good time to talk about end game. When does the game end?
Well, as mentioned earlier, the game can end when the cards run out. But there is another
Yes. game and condition we did not mention, which is if one of these piles runs out,
which I think in a two-player game,
it happens more often in a higher player count game. It has happened in a higher player count game for us,
but it has not in a two-player game.
Although Tyler has been hogging all the henbanses over there, so
you've been giving them to me. What are you talking about?
Well, you know what? I'm going to take one.
I've been trying to make them work.
There we go.
I don't want that.
This Oh, wait. I definitely want the green. But I think this is the time where I say no
and take one and one.
One and one.
And how are you going to do that
with my chaos elixir?
Fine.
But I've got to figure it out first.
24.
Six and six. No, that would be useless.
Okay, I had a big turn.
What is this?
I have made an elderberry potion. So, I'll lock these into place and grab myself. A tincture of transmutation. No, I'm just going to try it. I think
23. 23. Okay. So, we'll discard this. Rotate this. Draw this. Perfect.
Okay, so now it's my turn, I think.
Not perfect.
I should just do this.
All right.
Yeah. Red, did I give you exactly what you needed?
Oh, no.
Oh, that was beautiful.
Oopsies.
Okay. Ready for my presentation?
No.
My lucky. And it's my lucky number 17. getting this.
I was born on the 17th.
Now I have all f all three of them.
Watch this, Tyler. On this one, I am joining my humongous vine.
Wow.
And on this one, I am creating a mandrake line.
Wow.
Which means I'll put a harvest marker on it
and also claim my potion.
Nice. Good job.
Look at me go. Okay. So then this and then swap and then pick. Go ahead.
We're nearing the game end here. I see.
Yeah. And we both have sets. Holy moly.
I'm going to do this.
What the heck,
Barry? Don't give me the handbane cuz I don't want it. I'm going to
Are you going to exchange it for something else?
Place for it. Well, you should place it first, then exchange it. That's technically the rule.
No, no, no. I'm going to do this cuz I didn't do it last.
You didn't do that. I thought you did.
Uh,
okay. I have to give myself some flexibility here.
Oh, I should have. That was uh Yeah, that's okay.
So, I'll do that and then I'll use this. Oh, it doesn't matter which one I get.
But I would like a vine. I think
a van. You got it.
Mhm. This one goes here. Okay.
Oh, look at our gardens.
Oh, I get another potion. Swap the position of two.
Wow.
And then I have to put a lock down.
Do you prefer your sunlight garden or your moonlight garden?
Uh, this one's more versatile, I think. But I don't know.
My sunlight garden feels like a big weed has just overgrown everything.
No kidding. where my moonlight garden I feel like is thriving. I have berries. I have mandrix.
Okay, my turn.
Oh, I don't have a card because I did not draw one. [sighs]
We have three turns left
for reference
because there's 20 and we have six spots open and one we started with. So,
I think yep, that this and this and 24 Very,
very good.
Very interesting. The henbane kind of messes things up. So, I think it's time for me to use my potion. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to place Is this a good use of potion?
Is it? I don't know.
It is. I'm going to go here.
Well, if you don't use it, it's kind of silly.
You're right. And then this one I would have placed here.
Uhhuh.
But I'm not going to. I'm going to replace this tile with a mandrake. Okay. And Tyler, watch this. I got another red potion.
Wow.
Bam. So, that means another ability to potentially do that with. Feel pretty good about that.
Yeah, no kidding.
Discard. Draw.
And this is my last turn.
Active turn. Your last active turn. You're right. So, what do I want?
Okay,
there's there's actually a lot I don't want, unfortunately.
Uh, I think I'm going to do this.
Yes. And why, may you ask?
Exactly. Five. Because I'm going to place this here and then this right here. Then this lion's mane is not ruining anything for me. So, I would take this and I would have this. But I could I think I'm just placing this awkwardly here to score me nothing. Or here. Yes.
To score you everything.
This is chaotic.
Is it?
There. I slotted them in.
Oh yeah.
All right. That was correct.
I can use any number at any point. at any number and any point. You have one more card remaining. We have one more turn remaining and we will proceed to
scoring focus. I actually need to think about this for a minute.
I don't think I can actually do it.
What are you trying to do?
I want to somehow get this so I can do one of the potion swaps, but um it's difficult for
What are you trying to swap
this? these or like I want to be able to put this here but
but you can do that if you use your three but you have to place something here and that feels wasteful.
Yeah, exactly.
Uh yeah, unfortunately there's no abilities that you fill in different spaces like the spaces always have to be mirrored. That's how the gardens will grow.
Whether or not I should No, I think it's okay. I think that's all I can do unfortunately. Uh, I think this is good for me and not good for you.
That's horrible for me. Well, time for me to activate my abilities.
They're trap cards.
So, I'm going to use this.
All right, I will replace
to plant an active player side tile and a tile from everyone else side. So, I'm going to do
this one and that one. So, I'll get a henbane and a flower. Now, the flower I will place right here.
Cool.
And then the henbane I'll place right here.
Can't use this, but I could do a bunch of this. And I probably will try to. Now, h you may be wondering, can I replace one of my unlock tiles with another tile to make it better? Indeed, I will. This is silly, but I have to swap because I placed this incorrectly. Swap this one with this one. And then I have to do it again because then I'll switch switch them back. But it's because I need to be able to
Oh, the rotation. The rotation is really key. That's a really actually big strength of that one. I think I'm going to use this one to replace one of my vines with a petal.
Yeah, that's probably
or leave. cuz it scores two points instead of one that way.
Two, four, and 16. I'm good.
6 11 21. I am also good.
And that is even glow.
Let's get that score pad. Okay. We're going to start with vines and leaves.
I did not score well on that.
So, one point per tile in the largest connected set of vine tiles in each garden.
Okay. So, for example, I would get one, two, three, four just for my tiles. And then I would get
Well, no. And then you do the vines on that side. So, six vines.
Yeah. Yeah, but there's two, isn't there? Isn't it? Oh, it is. Okay. So, then now I get points for the flowers that are attached to it. The leaves. Or leaves. Sorry. And then this is 2 4. This is 6 8 10 12 14.
That's pretty good. That's a total of 20 for this one.
I have 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Mhm. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Mhm.
22 23 24 25 26 27 Is that correct?
Yeah, I think so. 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16.
That one. Did you count that one? Okay.
20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yeah, 27.
Do you like how from yours separation?
I was trying to do that and give you the right number, but then Oh well.
And it made more sense for me because it was more complicated. Handmade flowers. For every set of exactly two, you score two points plus two if neither touch a perimeter.
I got 16.
You mean 12?
Yeah.
12 for Tyler. And I only got four cuz Oh, no. I got six. We had the same amount, but all of Tyler's were inside and mine were all outside.
On the inside.
On the outside. Okay. Lion's mains. Exactly three.
I have three sets.
So, you score
18.
No, you score nine points. Oh my goodness, Tyler. I only have one, so I score three.
Mhm.
Uh, I'm a dummy.
What? I could have transmorphed that tile into a yellow
where with what?
I transmorphed this.
Mistakes were made.
Oh no,
you really wanted the extra two points.
Oh my goodness. I could have had an extra four plus an extra eight.
Oh yeah, that is a blunder.
We are in trouble. Holy moly. Okay. Yeah, cuz I have How many yellows did you have?
I have two sets.
So you have eight.
Eight. Yeah.
And I have
four. four
elderberries.
I do only have one set of elderberries.
So you score three.
So I score Yeah. I don't score. You score for how many are on the perimeter? So I score three.
And I do 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.
Wow.
Which I don't think that is enough unfortunately. So we get points for potions. I have three four. So seven 17 plus another three. So that's 20.
Okay.
Oh, did I miss? No, I think I'm good on Yeah, I'm good on scoring. 20. So then I have 6 10 14 19 + 3 is 22.
Oh, it's going to be a close game.
Goodness.
Ready for math? 72 for Tyler, 69 for me.
Nice.
I am a dummy.
I I was looking at everything and I was saying which one and I focused so much. It's It's my vines. They're weeds.
But if I switched this one, I would have scored one. I only would have lost one point for this.
One point because it would have been a green
and I would have gained another eight because I would have got a potion and I would have scored four. So I would have been up seven points.
See what 76.
Does that mean I won?
No. Maybe make better decisions next time. [sighs]
This is what I get for playing so quickly, so snappy.
You know what? He's not allowed to use that as an excuse because I play very slow compared to him. So he can take his time. But it's not an excuse. I play fast usually.
Yeah, exactly.
But because I play fast, I make mistakes like this. I I hope that many of you are watching your screens go like, "No, why did he do that?
What are you doing?
Why did he do that?"
But 75 is the score to beat.
Oh my 76.
72 is the score to beat.
Good game. Well, that has been
Even Glow.
Do you have any questions? Leave in the comments down below. What did you think? How did you manage your flowers and plants
with a lot of anxiety? Just kidding. I I like the management. I think it's interesting whether you I find we both tend to stay on the same color scheme, but then like at certain point there's a tilting point where you have to jump over to the other side to make it more valuable. Uh and then see what everybody else is grabbing because I knew I wasn't going to be able to get another five set of uh elderberries and I kind of just gave up on those. You did a really good job with your headmade.
I know. Well, cuz I got them really early and then afterwards I just like tried to stop.
Yeah. I feel like my vine almost ruined for me. And I think it does break my brain cuz I always try like for some reason my brain just wants three here and three here. So I forget cuz I could have put two hand here.
You could have. Yeah.
But then I couldn't because I kept thinking they're going to be next to these and they're they're not. They're going to be opposites. So it does require that different element of thinking that I personally really enjoy. Yes, exactly. It's a lot of fun.
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Now, for our question of the day today,
what is your favorite flower in the sunlight or plant in the moonlight?
I don't think I'm verse enough in those areas.
Do you know which one comes to mind for me immediately? When I was little, there was these like little lantern flowers. I'll see if I can find an image of them, but they were all over like the forest where I grew up and I would love to especially in the nights cuz they would actually be like very vibrant and they're just gorgeous.
I know what you're talking about. Don't know what they're called. I don't know a whole lot about flowers either. So,
well, it's time for Tyler to go harvest some handmade.
Educate us. Tell us your favorite flowers for the night and the day down in the comments below.
Beautiful.
But until next time, we will see you later.
Bye. Yeah.