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Played in a series of 10 rounds, this abstract family game by Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews sees players drafting dice from a central pool and adding them to the window grid on their lavishly illustrated player boards. Players are given two window cards during set-up and can choose a window pattern from the four available sides - they all offer different dice placement options and vary in complexity. Each round the first player will draw two dice per player, plus one additional die and roll them (so seven dice in a three-player game, for example). They will then choose a die to add to their window - the drafting continues in a clockwise direction until the last player has completed their turn - the last player will then take another turn as the drafting direction shifts to anti-clockwise, ending on the first player who will be left with a choice of two dice. 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It's theme is set in Celtic lore with players attempting to become the King of the Islands - Inis. To do this players can attempt to earn one or more of three victory conditions. The trouble is when you have achieve one or more of them you must signal this to the other players by taking a pretender token. Of course this gives the other players a chance to counter act your carefully laid plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis means that Inis becomes a battle to not only achieve a win condition but either do it in such a way that it becomes impossible for the other players to combat, or go all out on every win condition and hope that it's enough. This feels like a great evolution of the shifting victory points in Kemet and makes Inis feel different to other games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough battle is a part of the game you can't just go and stomp all over the other players, well you can but not if you want to win! 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Although you're co-operating, all players choose their actions independently to try and take on different challenges that the group are currently facing. This simple card mechanism is a really effective one for giving you control over your outcomes in the game, as well as driving some really interesting decisions. Gloomhaven is widely regarded as a fantastic game, with two successful Kickstarters behind it, as well as the accolade of being the number one rated game by gamers on BoardGameGeek. It seems to appeal to both gamers with an interest in typical dungeon crawl style board games, as well as a wider range of people who are drawn to the game for its story, campaign and card driven mechanisms. There is a significant amount of content in the Gloomhaven box! The game includes miniatures to represent each character, as well as a huge amount of cardboard map tiles, tokens and monsters. 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There is a variety of cards in the game meaning that the game contains some variety out of the box - you will not see, let alone use, all the powers and die faces in one game alone. The game plays quickly and well with all player counts, and despite not being a pure family game has gone down very well with children from the age of five up. This is because you can easily explain the possible outcomes of every move they might make. Although there is a little luck as a result of the dice, you get a generous amount of rolls (you roll and receive the resources on everyone's turn, not just your own) and before long you have built dice that roll results you want pretty much all the time. Perhaps this is why it works so well - there is very little waiting around for other people to take their turns, you are either rolling your dice or watching what the other players are buying in case they grab something you wanted. 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There's no board in Colt Express - instead, the action takes place within physical 3-D train carriages that sit on the table. They look delightful and get players excited straight away (we estimate 10 seconds before you hear the first 'Yee-haw!'). 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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This garden will grow in a modular fashion through the game as player attempt to race to complete seven Objective Cards (in a four-player game). There are five different actions players can pick from on their turn. They have to pick two different actions from the following:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDraw three garden plots (hex tiles), pick one to lay into the garden and discard the other two.\u003cbr\u003e\nTake an irrigation channel from the reserve.\u003cbr\u003e\nMove the gardener in a straight line (thus increasing the bamboo to grow in that plot as well as on adjacent tiles of the same colour).\u003cbr\u003e\nMove the panda in a straight line ('eating' - removing - a piece of bamboo from that tile).\u003cbr\u003e\nDraw a face-down Objective Card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe key to Takenoko is completing those Objectives. 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Helpfully, on your turn you also roll a Weather Die, which will inform you which of the six bonuses the weather gives you (ranging from an additional third action to select, to having the option to take the same action twice, and so on). Takenoko is wonderfully vivid. And since there are literal bamboo towers that you'll build, along with a cute, mini panda moving about, it gathers lots of attention from curious passers-by. Gameplay is simple to grasp, and games last about 45 minutes. Simply put, Antoine Bauza's Takenoko ticks every box going for being a brilliant gateway game! 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