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The 100 'Starburst'-sized azulejo tiles are resin material. They make a wonderful clacking noise when jangled in the cloth bag! To start a round, four tiles get drawn from the bag and placed onto each 'factory'. Players take turns drafting tiles from any factory of their choice. Whenever they pick tiles from a factory, they have to take all tiles of a matching type present there. Those they don't draft join a new, separate factory. As the round wears on, this separate factory grows in size, but the drafting of tiles rule applies here, too. Players draft tiles until all factories sit empty.You're aiming to collect enough of one tile type to fill in thresholds on your player mat. At the end of each round, if you've filled up a threshold, you can stick said tile onto the wall! It's like Sudoku; once you've filled one tile-type onto the wall, it can't repeat on the same row or column. At first, you'll collect tiles in a laid-back fashion. But the pinch closes in during later rounds. Your options start to become ever-more specific. Other players can take note of your predicaments. Elements of push-your-luck enter the fray. Especially considering there's the chance you might get left with excess tiles you can't place! These class as 'smashed' tiles... And that means minus-points!Azul is a quick game to teach, and addictive to play. This fits the category of easy to learn, but tricky to master. It's easy to see why Azul has become an overwhelming modern classic! Such is Azul's wild success, it's spawned two sequels already - Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra, and Azul: Summer Pavilion. 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Pandemic Legacy Season Two continues the story 71 years after the events of the first game. Legacy games are games that play out in a campaign over multiple play sessions. Legacy games often include destructive elements too, meaning you can only play through once, as you will tear up and destroy components. However this is more than made up for by the experience of discovery the story together.Season One was set in the same time period as the original game, basically around now. Season Two moves things to the near future which means they can play with the rules even more. As you play through the game the rules will evolve as well as the story. This is all kept in order with a handy rule book and stickers that go in the correct places.Pandemic Legacy is a game worth experiencing by everyone. There is no need to have played Season One before diving into Season Two, but it's worth committing to playing through the whole campaign of each season with the same group if possible. 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It's a medium-weight Euro-style game, with the aim being to score the most victory points over 14 rounds. First-come, first-served worker placement lies at the heart of Agricola. You start with two farmer workers who can visit various locations. At the start of each round, some of these spots gain extra resources, making them more appealing. If no one visits them, these piles of wood, crops, or animals accumulate. They soon become all the more appealing! You might start the round with a certain plan... but how can you turn down that many free sheep?Each player has their own farm player mat. It's a grid of squares, and you need to try and fill it. Will you plough fields to grow veggies? Will you extend your farmhouse - and with it, your family of farmers? Will you build fences to keep livestock? There's a million-and-one different strategies in Agricola!There's quite a few plates to spin, as it were. Your options grow as the game progresses. At the start of each new round, a new worker placement card gets revealed. At regular intervals, you need to provide food to feed your workers. Your animals also breed - but only if you have space to accommodate them. Many categories get scored at the end, and if you ignore them you can score dreaded minus points... You also start the game with a hand of Occupation and Minor Improvement cards. If you can afford them, these assist you in an engine-building fashion, offering an infinite modular experience. Agricola is the kind of fascinating game that never plays the same way twice! 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But these are not just a gimmick from Ludonaute - instead, they quite literally set the scene. A variety of loot, in the form of $250-$500 purses and $500 gems, is placed within the carriages, and the honourable Marshal Samuel Ford, the one honest man on board, starts in the locomotive car. He's guarding a briefcase worth an eye-watering $1,000. The bandits - with asymmetrical player powers - start in the caboose, and they have five rounds to scheme and steal as much of this loot as possible. Each player has a deck of ten cards, with actions that range from: - Floor Change (onto the roof or down into a carriage). - Moving (along one carriage or across multiple carriages if you're on the roof). - Shooting (a rival bandit and giving them a useless bullet card, which clogs up their deck for the next round). - Punching (a rival bandit into an adjacent carriage and causing them to drop a piece of loot). - Robbery (picking up a piece of loot in your current carriage); - Moving the Marshal (who can also shoot bandits if they're in the same carriage). Players deal themselves six cards. One at a time they can play an action card into the common deck; sometimes they'll have to play them face-up for all to see and memorise, sometimes face-down. Once a set number of cards have been played - these differ, round to round - they are then activated in chronological order, which is when the madness begins... Bullets, fistfights and the dropping of loot occur all over the place, and not always the way players intended them! Colt Express won the Spiel des Jahres award (the Family Game of the Year) in 2015, and it's certainly a family-friendly game that players shouldn't take too seriously. Since you can only see a percentage of the programmed actions, you need to calculate the odds of your perfect move being achievable. However, more often than not, the laughter comes when your plans go out the window and you have to suddenly adapt. If you're a fan of other program-movement titles such as River Dragons, Robo Rally and Lords of Xidit, then Colt Express is the rootin'-tootin' ride for you. 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It's made up of a series of hexagonal tiles that comprise of various lush, fertile terrains, perfect for colonising. Number tiles - ranging from two to 12 - are placed on the terrain hexes. You all start the game by placing two humble settlements on corners of any two hexes, with a road leading out of it. Your aim is to acquire the right resources to construct more roads linking your settlements, building even more settlements, and also upgrading them into cities. Two dice are rolled each turn, their total added together. Everybody with a settlement adjacent to the hex of that number gets the corresponding resource card (wood from the forest, wool from the sheep pasture, and so on). So, in theory, that ore mine on the eight is going to dish out resources far more often than the wheat field on 12 (a double-six is required, after all). At least, in theory... Dice, as you know, can be cruel! Then, the active player can vocally attempt to negotiate resource trades with the other players, to achieve their goals. This is the real heart and soul of Catan, and where the much-uttered phrase, \"Wood for sheep?\" will be heard at some point... There are also constant back-and-forth battles for claiming the reward of Longest Road or Largest Army. There's a deck of Development Cards to acquire, which offer you additional benefits. There's a barren desert, and in it, a robber who steals resources. Meanwhile, everyone aims to be the first to hit 10 points for having accomplished certain criteria (each city built is worth two points, for example). For your first game of Catan, the rulebook suggests a set layout of the hex tiles and numbers. However, the set-up is of course modular, meaning you could lay out the island in any way you desire, thus creating a unique game and strategy required, each time. No board game collection is complete without a copy of Catan! If you can't get enough of this classic Euro game then you should absolutely check out the many expansions available, such as Catan: Seafarers, and Explorer \u0026amp; Pirates (both of which involve many scenarios about sailing, discovering archipelagos and extra resources), Cities \u0026amp; Knights (barbarians are invading Catan and you must try to stop them!) and even a Game of Thrones Catan: Brotherhood of the Watch variant, which is themed around George R. R. Martin's hugely popular A Song of Ice and Fire series. 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Then players have to secretly vote using tokens (which are simultaneously flipped) on which card they think belongs to the Storyteller. If everyone picks the Storyteller's card (or if no one guessed right), then everyone scores two points, except the Storyteller. If only some people guessed correctly, then they and the Storyteller score three points. If others pick your own card when you are not the Storyteller, you alone score 1 point per vote for your card. (You are not allowed to vote for your own card!). Therefore, it quickly becomes a case of the Storyteller having to balance proceedings - if they're too vague in their descriptions, they risk alienating everyone from guessing their card. But at the same time, they cannot make it too obvious, because then everyone will know it and they'll score nothing! At the end of each turn, everyone receives a new card to their hand, and then the next player becomes the Storyteller. In some ways, Dixit is less of a board game and more of a fun activity you can experience with friends or family. Libellud have done a great job with the cards themselves - they're lovely and big (8x12cm, so bigger than regular playing cards) and the cartoony artwork is adorable, with a surprising amount of detail in each one. Also, the interior of the box itself is the game board, which is sure to delight younger players! Dixit's rules are incredibly simple to teach - you'll be up and running within 90 seconds of lifting the lid - meaning it's not going to intimidate those that are new to board games. The whole table will be laughing in no time at all, especially when people guess on the wrong cards, for the most bizarre of reasons! 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