(http://tehill.net/carcassonne/fun/20170418_213350.jpg) | Components: You get a bag with 90 coloured dice in it and the favour tokens are nice glass beads. The art work is very colourful, but the card stock is pretty thin; I'd have preferred this was a little thicker, but there's not much shuffling. Player Interaction: Not much really, only hate drafting, but we were too busy trying to work out optimal placements. It's a typical, short-length friendly Euro affair. Theme: If you liked stained glass windows and dice: you're in for a winner. If you dis-like either of these: go play something else. Our Game: The start of the game is pretty difficult; I made effective use of the Tool cards that let you manipulate stuff, when I noticed the Column Colour Variety card was probably the easiest thing to score points against. We both started with 'easy' windows. I ended up scoring 47 points. If I got a Blue 6 at any time during the game, I'd have scored another: 19 points! My wife misunderstood the rule about orthogonality; so started off really badly. She also forgot about the private card half way through too. Last Thoughts: It's a filler for me; it only took about 15-20minutes to play (which is a plus), but I didn't feel much challenge, there's plenty of room to do what you want, until the end game where occasionally we took dice we needed from each other. I did think the interactions could have been tighter. It probably makes for a good solo experience, which I look forward to trying. |
My only complaint is that the Dice are just to small, for a kid just trying to set them on the window is halfway to lose it. For me, even not having big hands, just trying to put a dice without messing all the others around on later turns is an all new skill game.
It probably makes for a good solo experience, which I look forward to trying.
I think/hope junglegirl will like this.