Beacon Patrol in 60 Seconds (in Essen!) #boardgames

Beacon Patrol is cooperative tile placing game about exploration the objective as a team is to fully discover tiles with lighthouses and buoys to fully discover means to surround the tile with four tiles in each of the cardinal directions a player places and can discard two tiles per turn and can make one trade with another player the catch is the tiles cannot be rotated and can only be placed adjacent to your boat once the tile is placed your boat moves onto the tile and in this way you're constantly exploring in though each player does have two movement points to move backward when necessary there is no way to lose in this game but rather players calculate their score and try to Target rankings or beat their score from last time while this game seemed almost too simple at first I actually found depth in strategically planning trades to optimize the layout of the map