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Favorite Tile-Laying Games
fbinstant:
If your family love cats, then you can also consider Calico.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283155/calico
It plays like Cascadia.
kothmann:
--- Quote from: fbinstant on March 27, 2023, 09:35:46 PM ---If your family love cats, then you can also consider Calico.
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Oh, this looks interesting. Thanks! I like the multiple bonus tokens: wood bits are fun! Several reviews on BGG suggest the game is subject to analysis paralysis, so maybe a variant could be useful. It has 108 total tiles and each player has a hand of tiles, so maybe I can work out a double-sided tile variant with no hand of tiles? That would reduce the total number of turns from 108 to 54--shorter is usually better for me. (But 60 tiles would be the purrfect number, allowing 2-6 players to have the same number of turns). Maybe also eliminate the boards and have only one double-sided objective card per player? Then the quilt would be freeform? Also, then a 2-player game could use 27 tiles per player instead of 22. A 3-player game would have 18 tiles per quilt. If you had a single pattern tile, you could make a large regular hexagon with 3 tiles per side for an extra bonus?! Hmm... Or maybe you can some how get everyone to build a single giant quilt!?
Or maybe just play the game as it is. ::)
kothmann:
I was in a second-hand shop and found National Geographic’s Global Pursuits for $4. It contains 48 pentagonal tiles, obtained from projecting 4 globes—each showing different information like geography, products, etc—onto dodecahedrons. There are also trivia cards and some rules, but I just ignored all that and enjoyed flipping through the deck and watching the chatoic flat surface emerge:
If you cut this out and folded it up, you should get a dodecahedron that is 4 tiles thick everywhere!
It was trickier than I expected figuring out where to put the tiles. I rearranged only a couple of tiles near the end—not sure if I had to or not, but I got stuck!
You could also try to build 4 separate complete maps.
Seems like it could be a great puzzle to share with kids. Looks to be available cheap on eBay.
Vital Pluymers:
Alhambra
Cacao
Skye
Quadropolis
Decar:
Lots of good suggestions here - you'll be busy for ages Kothmann!
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