Smile

Alexandre MATHISstar6,0

Quick multilingual review as originally posted on my public https://www.instagram.com/p/BsvD6YLh4ON/ ?? Un jeu plus méchant qu’il n’en a l’air avec ses lucioles…il nous aura davantage plu entre adultes chafouins qu’en famille : vous forcez parfois les autres à prendre des cartes pourries, vous les bloquez en prenant la carte juste avant leur tour…presque un jeu d’enfoirés déguisé en jeu d’enchères : on paye pour ne pas prendre une carte. Différence avec Non Merci : 2 cartes de couleurs identiques s’annulent illico même si elles étaient excellentes. Collusions et autres fourberies sont bien là. L’interaction est indirecte, on regarde souvent les cartes déjà acquises ailleurs pour anticiper les actions. Au final, un jeu qui manque peut-être son vrai public par son bel habillage mais trop enfantin ! ??-?? Smile is a nice looking lightweight auction game for 3-5 players. In my opinion it’s not a kid game : you can mess opponents with indirect interaction, force them to take cards they don’t want…we tried several times with different children it was really so-so. Played better with adult boardgamers. Bid to pass mechanism was known in No Thanks but it differs on this key point :if you get 2 cards with the same color they are discarded ! This makes cards real values quite unpredictable and rounds often hazardous. Game lasts 10 rounds. Scoring is easy as many cards get discarded…and unused fireflies almost count for nothing. Well, not a bad game but i think my old awful looking Geschenkt was maybe more tactical or family friendly. Advice : avoid playing with a child on your right…almost sure you’ll lose ??? Smile es un juego que tiene una mecanica principal conocida : subastar para pasar…o recoger una carta. En su torno el jugador activo podrá poner una de sus luciérnagas sobre la carta de menor valor sobre la mesa o coger una criatura con al menos una luciérnaga sobre su carta. Solo se recoge 1 carta en cada de las 10 rondas. Y si tienes dos cartas con el mismo color se descartan ambas cartas. Con interacción indirecta puedes fastidiar a otros y por eso me parece que no es un juego para niños, lo preferimos con jugadores adultos !

EvEvanstar4,6

This is a simple filler game that takes inspiration from No Thanks. essentially each turn you flip one card per player, and then players get to spend a stone onto the card with the lowest value in order to not take that card. You might choose to take a bad card to get all the accumulated stones, because only cards that have stones are eligible to take, and if you run out and can't take a card you are forced to take a -1 vp penalty marker to get an extra stone to use. Many of the cards have a color in the corner of the card indicating that if you wind up with 2 cards of the same color, both get discarded. This can be a boon if you wind up with a negative card, but they can also make things tough if you are trying to protect a high value card. You can really wind up getting stuck if you get too many good cards too early. In terms of feel, the game is like no thanks in the action of essentially spending tokens to not take a card, however, the cleverness is different in the hunt for colors vs in no thanks where you try to get sequential numbers. The math is also very different as in No Thanks each marker is worth a point, but in Smile each marker is 1/5th a point. The major upside here is that the cards are beautiful compared to the drab basic look in No Thanks. I'm not sure which I like better mechanically, but I'm more likely to pull Smile out for a filler moment just by virtue of look alone. It could use a few more glass beads of each type however. In our 4 player game we nearly ran out despite the rulebook saying they are intended to be unlimited. :star: Art, Iconography and components functional :star: Clever or interesting mechanisms :star: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :nostar: Multiple plays stay interesting :star: Low or mitigatable luck elements :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment

Benjamín Amorínstar6,0

Really light numeric card game.