Cottage Garden

Jan Solostar7,5

Un juego de colocar losetas tipo tetris en tus tableros personajes. Muy entretenido, ya que puedes ir planificando tu turno mientras los demás juegan. Sencillo de explicar pero con una buena dosis de estrategia. Apto para todos los públicos.

GaGarfieldstar2,0

Not interesting enough to keep it. Tetris like game where you have to fill up space as quickly as possible without hidings special icons that give you VPs. Good family game I guess. [c] Theme: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Very little --> Gameplay: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Good --> Interaction: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Others taking tiles that you wanted --> Artwork: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Ok, nothing special --> Luck: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]What tiles would be refilled for you --> Strategy: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Obvious one --> Components: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Ok, nothing special --> Play duration: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Ok --> Easy to teach: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Quite easy --> Rules quality: ★★★★★ <!-- size 7]Very good --> Setup time: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]Very fast --> No downtime: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]Should be playable quite quick --> Replay value: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Random tiles, but nothing more --> [/c]

EvEvanstar4,6

In this game, you move a marker in a circle, and then select a tetris piece from your row and place it on one of your two player boards. The boards have two different scoring features printed on them, so ideally you want to try not to cover those spots, but you might have to if it means completing a board so you get a new board, and score those points. This game is interesting, as the boards are more or less have one of two different arrangements of pre printed scoring items. You wind up completing a lot of boards which feels pretty dynamic. You also have a lot of perfect information, as you can see which rows you'll get to pull from in what order, and if you need to refill, you'll see the order the tiles will refill from. In each of my plays the scores have been within 2 points, which makes me wonder how much real strategy there is to playing the game. So far I've enjoyed this over Patchwork because it allows for more players, looks nicer, and being able to complete multiple boards is more exciting and fulfilling than trying and failing to complete just one. I've also enjoyed this over Barenpark, because while this game is a race to the finish certainly, it doesn't have as much of the unpleasantly stressful element of each player who scores before you scores better points by virtue of being first. ★ Art, Iconography and components functional ★ Clever or interesting mechanisms ★ Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players ☆ Multiple plays stay interesting ★ Low or mitigatable luck elements ★★☆☆☆ Raw enjoyment