Majolica

2018 · Abstract Strategy

Majolica

During the Victorian Era, colorful glazed majolica pottery spreads through industrial production and trade across Europe and East Asia. Players collect tiles from the outer sides of a 4 × 4 grid and place them in one of four workshops. When a workshop’s color ratio matches its requirement, the tiles can be delivered to a design card, with any remaining tiles carried over to the next workshop. Players arrange design cards and recycle leftover tiles to complete patterns and score points.

Players
1–4 best 2
Playing time
40 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.8 / 5
1.2 on LudoyaPattern Building

About the game

Design

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Full stats in Ludoya
8
Plays logged
10
Players
58m 30s
Average play
2
In collections

1.2/10

from 2 Ludoya reviews

  • Evan0.9

    In this game you collect tiles by depleting production spaces in a central area. Then the tiles go into boxes on your personal player board. Once the boxes meet the printed color requirements you can move a fixed number of them into a recipe card above the space. Then the remaining tiles flush into the box to the right. I can see the clever engine building present in this game but it's a frustrating process to get a good sense of. The requirements to get the tiles onto the recipe cards is often at odds with what color tiles you are able to produce leading to a lot of wasted tiles. Once the engine is running it doesn't feel very satisfying. There's also a bizarre mechanism where the round ends once x tiles have been depleted from the center which leads to uneven numbers of turns between players for no strategic reason I can see. The reset process involves picking up all the central tiles and shuffling them face down which happens very often and becomes an annoying process. This is a pass for me. :star: Art, Iconography and components functional :nostar: Clever or interesting mechanisms :star: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :nostar: Multiple plays stay interesting :nostar: Low or mitigatable luck elements :nostar::nostar::nostar::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment

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