This August, we are happy to offer you a new light and fun game to enjoy during the hot summer hours, when the sun is just too strong and you can't do anything else than play in the shade 🙂
Buttons, a game from Benjamin Schwer published by Noris Spiele, is now available on Board Game Arena!
In this game from the push-your-luck family, you'll try to get stars faster than your opponents. On each turn, you get the choice either to stop or to throw dice. The lone white die will match a line, and the black dice will match columns. Then you'll choose one of the intersections of the line and the columns to block with a transparent button. The spaces immediately next to this spot all become unavailable, so on the next dice throw, if the white die matches the same line, you'd better hope the black dice point to at least one of the available spots left, otherwise you are toast!
When you decide that it's getting too risky and you stop, you get one star for stopping in time (and not losing everything), one extra star for each button color covered at least 3 times with a transparent button, and one bonus star if the button color that was assigned to you for this round has been covered at least 3 times. Then you choose where to put the stars you earned on your board in place of the transparent buttons. Of course, these spaces will be unavailable from now on, so dice throws will get riskier as the game moves forward!
The game ends after one round where a player either has collected 12 stars or more, or managed to align 5 consecutive stars in a row or in a line. Then the player who triggered the end of the game (or he player with the most stars in case of more than one player triggerring the end of game on the same round) wins the game!
We would like to thank Markus Müller (SBHD) and Andrea Hofbeck from Noris Spiele for proposing Buttons for an adaptation on Board Game Arena, and the developper Adam Dewbery (apollo1001) who implemented it using BGA Studio.
Have fun going after the stars!
Buttons
這個八月，我們很高興為您提供一個全新、有趣、輕量級的桌遊，讓您在「太陽太大，不躲，會被融到地上」的炎炎夏日中，盡情享受這個遊戲的樂趣。
Buttons，一個由 Benjamin Schwer 製作、 Noris Spiele 出版的遊戲，現在已可在 BGA 上遊玩！
現在就開始玩吧！
在這個「得寸進尺」的遊戲中，你將嘗試比你的對手更快奪得星星。
每個回合，你可以選擇停止或投擲骰子。
白骰子對應列，而黑骰子對應行。
然後，你將選擇行與列的交集並覆蓋一個透明鈕扣。
這時，與透明鈕扣相鄰的上下左右空格將不可使用。所以下一次擲骰時，如果白骰子又骰到同一列, 你最好祈禱黑骰子的骰點指向至少一個可用的鈕扣，否則你就想哭但是哭不出來了！
當您覺得這樣太危險而停止，您會因為及時停止而得到一顆星（並且不會失去什麼）；當某一種顏色被覆蓋過三次以上，可以再得到一顆額外的星星；若是此回合分配給您的鈕扣顏色已覆蓋至少三次，則再增加一顆星星作為紅利。
接著，在面板上選擇被透明鈕扣所覆蓋的地方，擺放你所贏得的星星。
當然，這些空間從此不再可用，所以隨著遊戲進行，擲骰會更加冒險！
當一位玩家收集了 12 顆或更多顆星星，或者設法使連續 5 顆星星擺在一行或一列，遊戲結束。
然後，觸發遊戲結束的玩家（或者較觸發遊戲結束者擁有更多星星的玩家）贏得比賽！
我們想感謝 Noris Spiele 的 Markus Müller （SBHD）和 Andrea Hofbeck 提出 Buttons 的BGA改編版本，也謝謝這款遊戲網頁版的開發者 Adam Dewbery (apollo1001) ，讓 Buttons 能夠在 BGA 工作室上架。
去追星吧！
