Keyflower

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Importantly, once a colour of meeple is used to bid on or activate a space, any further bids or uses of that space must be performed with the same colour meeples. They say it's a good family game with a solid bidding-based Eurogame with some interesting mechanics and no obvious "best". Bidding pilgrims are placed on the edge of the hexagonal tile on the side you are facing so each player knows what they have bid regardless of colours (I really like this feature). So, if I have a lot of red meeples, and you have a tile that I really want to activate several times, then I might choose to activate it with red meeples (each additional activation costs an extra meeple; and each tile can only be activated up to three times per round).

It’s hardly Mansions of Madness Second Edition, but despite the pretensions of the rule book, there’s more than a gossamer thin theme to be found here if you’re willing to look. Please duck to make way for the swooshing infographic, which gives thanks to both Meople’s Magazine and BoardGameGeek’s News Blog who, along with many publisher announcements, help to keep us informed.Now you could house rule the Keyflower thing where players get a hand of scoring tiles and either all get put into play or you pick which get put into play similar to Keyflower, but I haven’t tried that.

After the end of a round, players take back their losing bids, and the tiles they won along with all workers on the tiles and in their village. Players should take the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the scoring opportunities shown on the reverse of the tiles which will be available for auction in winter). Any ,white' workers generated are taken randomly from the bag and placed behind the player's screen. This would let you be much more likely to win a tile that you really want - assuming that you're able to set the color on it. A player may acquire resources, skills, additional workers and victory points by placing workers on the tiles in their own village, in other players' villages and (except in winter) on the current season's tiles being bid for.Each player starts the game with a "home" tile and an initial team of eight workers, each of which is colored red, yellow, or blue. Each season new tiles will be available to bid on and new boats will deliver more workers and resources.