More and more often, you are in for a treat...or two on Board Game Arena!
Let me tell you about Flowers: A mandala game.
In this game, your goal is to collect flower tiles by achieving majorities through clever card play. Skillfully build mandalas to claim the best tiles, combining and multiplying them to create exquisite flowers of your own!
Each player starts with a hand of cards, with the cards coming in six colors that match the flower tile colors.
On a turn, a player lays down one or more cards of the same color onto one of the flowers. If that color is already present in the mandala, the player then flips the card(s) face down; if not, the player leaves them face up. If the player laid down one card, they draw two cards from the deck; if they played two or more, they do not draw any cards.
After playing, if you have at least one face-up card on a flower and more cards than any other player, take that flower's "claim" token and place it on your cards. Then, if that flower now has all six colors face up around it, destroy the mandala.
Whoever has the claim token on their cards places one of the flower tiles from this mandala in front of themselves; if they already have a flower tile of the same color, they flip this "complete" flower face down. Whoever has the second most cards on this mandala takes the second flower tile. Anyone who took a flower tile discards all of their played cards on this mandala; everyone else returns their played cards to their hand. Draw a black tile and white tile from the stack to create a new mandala.
Continue play until someone completes their third flower, then everyone scores their points. Each separate flower half is worth as many points as the number of flowers on it. For each complete flower, if one of the tiles is 3x, triple the number of flowers on the other tile; if both tiles have flowers, double the number of flowers on the tile with fewer flowers. Whoever has the most points wins.
Simple, elegant. And you can play it now with 2 to 4 players, right from your browser, by clicking below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=flowersmandalagame
Let us send some love to the Lookout Games team for this nice addition to the platform. All of our thanks also goes to the game designers Trevor Benjamin and Brett J. Gilbert, and of course, to the developer, Firgon, who did an amazing job porting it to BGA.
And that's not all...
Let us welcome the all-new expansion added to Catan: Cities and Knights!
Expand Catan with a more complex commodity market and knights to defend your cities.
The game changes the base game in three main ways:
First, there are 3 new commodities in the game, distinct from resources- paper, cloth, and coins, which can be acquired from Forest, Meadow, and Mountain spaces, respectively. Cities that would normally produce two of one of those resources instead produce 1 resource and 1 of the corresponding commodity. (To make commodities easier to obtain, each player starts the game with 1 city and 1 settlement on the board.) These commodities allow players to build city improvements that confer various advantages and eventually points.
Second, the deck of development cards is replaced by three different decks, each corresponding to one of the commodities. Building city improvements gives players a chance to draw these cards with every roll of the dice. Building more improvements will increase these chances, but cards cannot be bought directly in any way. These cards are similar to the development cards in the base game, but with a wider range of effects. (Some cards are balanced better as well- the new Resource Monopoly card, for example, can take no more than 2 of the named resource from any one player.)
Finally, players can also build knights on the island along their network of roads. These knights can be used to claim certain intersections and move the Robber (taking the place of Soldier cards), but are also used to defend the island from periodic barbarian attacks. If the island is successfully defended, the player(s) with the most knights are rewarded. If not, the player(s) with the fewest knights each have a city downgraded to a settlement.
You can play it by activating the expansion from your game settings before playing, right from the game page.
Let us thank the Catan team, and the work done by dahrf to bring it to Board Game Arena!
That's it for today. ;)
Let's dive into these releases and until next week...
Take care and play fair!
FLOWERS: A mandala game 和卡坦島更新！
越來越多的情況下，您可以在 Board Game Arena 上享受一兩次享受！
讓我告訴你關於花：曼陀羅遊戲的事。
在這款遊戲中，您的目標是透過巧妙的紙牌遊戲獲得多數票來收集花磚。巧妙地建造曼陀羅，獲得最好的瓷磚，將它們組合和相乘，創造出屬於你自己的精美花朵！
每個玩家一開始都有一副手牌，牌有六種顏色，與花磚的顏色相符。
在一輪中，玩家將一張或多張相同顏色的牌放在其中一朵花上。如果曼陀羅中已經存在該顏色，則玩家將卡片面朝下翻轉；如果沒有，玩家將它們面朝上。如果玩家放下一張牌，則從牌堆中抽兩張牌；如果他們玩了兩張或更多，他們不會抽任何牌。
玩完後，如果您在一朵花上至少有一張面朝上的牌，並且比任何其他玩家都多牌，則拿走該花的“認領”標記並將其放在您的牌上。然後，如果那朵花現在周圍的所有六種顏色都朝上，則摧毀曼陀羅。
卡片上有領取代幣的人，將這張曼陀羅中的一張花磚放在自己面前；如果他們已經有相同顏色的花磚，他們會將這「完整」的花面朝下翻轉。曼陀羅上擁有第二多牌的人將獲得第二張花牌。任何拿走花牌的人都會丟棄此曼荼羅上所有打出的牌；其他人將打出的牌返回自己的手上。從堆疊中抽取黑色瓷磚和白色瓷磚以創建新的曼陀羅。
遊戲會持續進行到有人完成第三朵花，然後每個人都會計分。每半朵花的得分與其上的花數相同。對於每一朵完整的花，如果其中一個格子是 3x，則另一塊圖塊上的花朵數量是三倍；如果兩塊瓷磚都有花，則將花朵較少的格子上的花朵數量加倍。得分最多的人獲勝。
簡單、優雅。現在，您可以透過瀏覽器與 2 至 4 名玩家一起玩，只需點擊以下按鈕即可：
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=flowersmandalagame
讓我們向 Lookout Games 團隊表達對平台的這一精彩補充的喜愛。我們也要感謝遊戲設計師 Trevor Benjamin 和 Brett J. Gilbert，當然也要感謝開發者 Firgon，他在將其移植到 BGA 方面做得非常出色。
這還不是全部......
讓我們歡迎新加入的全新擴充 卡坦島：城市與騎士！
用更複雜的商品市場擴展卡坦島，和用騎士來保衛你的城市。
該遊戲主要透過三個方面改變了基礎遊戲：
首先，遊戲中出現了 3 種與資源不同的新商品——紙張、布料和硬幣，分別可以從森林、草地和山地空間獲得。通常會生產其中一種資源中的兩種的城市改為生產一種資源和一種相應的商品。 （為了使商品更容易獲得，每個玩家在遊戲開始時在棋盤上有 1 個城市和 1 個定居點。）這些商品允許玩家建造城市改進，從而賦予各種優勢並最終獲得積分。
其次，開發卡牌被三副不同的牌取代，每副牌對應一種商品。建設城市的改進讓玩家有機會在每次擲骰子時抽出這些卡片。進行更多改進將增加這些機會，但卡牌不能以任何方式直接購買。這些卡牌與基礎遊戲中的開發卡牌類似，但具有更廣泛的效果。 （有些卡牌的平衡性也更好 - 例如，新的資源壟斷卡可以從任何一名玩家那裡獲取不超過 2 個指定資源。）
最後，玩家還可以沿著道路網絡在島上建造騎士。這些騎士可以用來佔領某些路口並移動強盜（代替士兵卡），但也可以用來保衛島嶼免受野蠻人的定期攻擊。如果島嶼被成功保衛，擁有最多騎士的玩家將獲得獎勵。如果不是，則擁有最少騎士的玩家的每個城市都會降級為定居點。
您可以在玩遊戲之前直接從遊戲頁面啟動遊戲設定中的擴充功能來玩遊戲。
讓我們感謝 Catan 團隊，以及 dahrf 將其帶到Board Game Arena所做的工作！
今天就這樣。 ;)
讓我們深入研究這些版本，直到下週......
保重並公平地玩！
