You went ahead and got yourself 0 points, while your opponent netted 14.Įvery discard, every play, and every pickup will feel like itĬould make or break your game and that tension is what makes this game so Meanwhile, your opponent has been holding onto numbers 7 through 10, just waiting for you to slip up and play your cards into that expedition. You might think you are sitting pretty with numbers 2 through 6 of an expedition. However, each expedition has only one copy of each card numbered 2 through 10 (points) and you must play them in ascending order. You need to play enough cards to that expedition to mitigate those points and even more to make it worth your while. Every expedition you play a card into, you start with a whopping negative 20 points for that expedition. You see, the catch with this game is all in the scoring. Well, what the game lacks in mechanical depth, it makes up for with droves of intense decision making. Your turns are simple, you play a card to an expedition OR discard a card to the appropriate pile and then you pick-up a card from either the top of the deck or an expedition’s discard pile. This is a very simple strategy card game in which players are archaeologists attempting to put together profitable expeditions to a number of lost cities. Lost Cities image credit: christopher cotton/flickr Your actions are so limited in this game and timing isĮverything so your decisions always feel meaningful, and one more time, for The person to win 4 out of 7 Geisha’s favor wins. If you have given more gifts to a Geisha, you have won their favor. Show your opponent four cards and they choose 2 and you keep the other two.Īll cards that you choose are played to the Geisha’s based off their preferred gift and then each player reveals their secret card and the round ends.Show your opponent three cards and they choose 1 and you keep the other two.The two players are competing to earn the favor of 7 different Geishas by presenting them with their favorite gifts.Įach round the cards are shuffled and each players is dealt a hand of 6 cards and on their turn players draw 1 more card and then perform 1 of 4 actions in any order of their choice. The theme and the artwork are calm and relaxing, but the gameplay is dread-inducing. You may have noticed me using words related to tension quite a lot in this article, well Hanamikoji is heads and shoulders the tensest game on this list. Note: It might be hard to get your hands on Hanamikoji, but the link above is a reskinned version called Jixia Academy that has the same gameplay with different art.
0 kommentar(er)
