4/19/2023 – Berkshire Gamers Session Report #23-16
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11 at Purple Dragon Games on April 19
(group led) 2019 Japanese addictive climbing/shedding card game that was a 2022 German Game of the Year finalist. Clever use of cards that are dual-indexed, with different values on each half of the card, with the 45 cards having all possible combinations of the numbers 1-10
(led by Sean) 2023 Knizia tile placement gardening game and is a reimplementation of Samurai the Card Game. Create a lush garden of beautiful blooms in order to attract helpful pollinators to their favorite flowers in this abstract tile laying game.
(led by Amy) 2019 Kennerspiel winner (best German gamers game) Players are bird enthusiasts seeking to discover and attract the best birds to their network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
- Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
- Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
- Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
2x (led by Sean) new Edition of Corne’ van Moorsel’s 2018 roll & write of building landmarks before your opponents do likewise. Each game round some of the 4, 6, 8, 12 and 20 sided dice get rolled for all players. Write the rolled numbers from the bottom to the top at your sheet, with each new number higher than or equal to each number underneath.
Your squares can contain: – a number from 1 die, or the sum of 2 or more dice
You can also skip 1 or more dice.
Before each next round, the special die tells the next player (clockwise) to add, remove or swap a die before rolling.
(led by K-ban) 2021 Phil Walker Harding game of tile-layering/stacking, competitive racing with point salad scoring for feeding Llamas, achieving public objectives and resources (corn, potatoes and cacao). There’s a puzzle aspect with deciding between expanding or stacking polyominoes each turn and getting help from characters.
(led by Sean) 2020 International Gamers Award winner combines deck-building and worker placement in a game of exploration, resource management, and discovery. In addition to traditional deck-builder effects, cards can also be used to place workers, and new worker actions become available as players explore the island.
(led by K-ban) 2018 co-op, we narrowly lost by two goal/objective cards.
11 at Purple Dragon Games on April 19 Welcome to Nicole and Hugo on their first visits to the group Welcome back Sofia for our April 26 session, the theme will be: Roll & Writes (that includes flip & writes, too) that popular genre’ of puzzle games that can usually accommodate almost any number of…
11 at Purple Dragon Games on April 19 Welcome to Nicole and Hugo on their first visits to the group Welcome back Sofia for our April 26 session, the theme will be: Roll & Writes (that includes flip & writes, too) that popular genre’ of puzzle games that can usually accommodate almost any number of…