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Mar 19, 2020 · I'm looking for inspiration for interesting tile/token drafting mechanics. In particular, I'm searching for methods to constrain player choice (e.g. having to take all tiles of a certain color in Azul, even if you only want a few), and methods for determining player drafting order (e.g. choosing a weaker piece this turn to gain choice order ...
- Patchwork
- My City
- Carpe Diem
- Cascadia
- Isle of Skye: from Chieftain to King
- Suburbia
- Traintopia
- Glen More II: Chronicles
- Quadropolis
- Between Two Cities
The weather is getting cold and it’s time to cozy up. What better way than with a homemade quilt? There’s any number of games from the great Uwe Rosenburg that could be included on this list, but Patchwork is certainly a standout. Patchwork is a two-player board gameabout making a quilt out of polyomino patch tiles. Each turn you draft a patch tile...
It’s time to settle down and build a city in this legacy game of points and progress Legacy board gamesare a growing genre and are usually associated with minis, components, envelopes, books, stickers and apps. My City is a breath of fresh air in a stifling cloud of these massive games and is also a box full of envelopes and stickers to discover as...
Create a prosperous city district as an ancient Roman aristocrat Carpe Diem is far from the prettiest game in the world, even in its most recent edition that attempted to fix its aesthetic problems. The theme is also uninspiring and a bit disconnected. All that being said, you can’t judge a game solely on how pretty it is, and Carpe Diem is a fanta...
Create a harmonious ecosystem in this layered tile puzzle game In Cascadia, you are responsible for creating hospitable habitats for bears, elk, salmon, hawks and foxes. Each animal scores differently, and Cascadia comes with several scoring cards for every animal for variable setup and scoring each time. During setup, you will lay out pairs of hab...
Become the proud leader of a Celtic kingdom In Isle of Skye you take the role of a chieftain responsible for building up your kingdom in the titular Isle of Skye through a blend of a unique auction/bidding gameplay mechanism, variable scoring and tile-placement. During setup, you will place four separate scoring tiles depicting the scoring paramete...
Construct a flourishing community by balancing your population, reputation and income Suburbia tasks you with taking a small town and developing it into a successful metropolis by balancing several tracks representing the growth and wealth of your population. Each turn in Suburbia involves you purchasing a tile from the available market and placing...
What’s more exciting than building efficient transportation infrastructure? Traintopia is fairly standard tile-placement fare, but with one simple change to the usual formula that proves to have more of an effect than you would expect. In each round of Traintopia, several tiles and objects are made available as determined by a deck of cards. Player...
Expand your clan through trade and construction Glen More II is a tile-placement game with a rondel-style tile-drafting gameplay mechanism. That means that tiles are laid out on a circular track, and whoever is furthest back on the track gets to take their turn by moving as far forward along the track as they like and taking the tile on that space....
Another game about building a city? In Quadropolis, you will draft several different building types into your city grid that each score differently based on how they are laid out. The rules that determine what tiles you can take and where you can place them are what make this game tense and interesting. The tiles are laid out in a grid each round, ...
Build something great by working together...sort of Between Two Cities is yet another city-building game, but this one has a semi-cooperative element. You will be developing two cities simultaneously, working with the players on both sides. The placement rules and scoring in Between Two Cities feel very familiar to many other tile-placement games, ...
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Open Drafting is used in games in which players pick (or purchase) cards (or tiles, resources, dice, etc) from a common pool, to gain some advantage or to assemble collections that are used to meet objectives within the game. Saint Petersburg is a well-known game utilizing an open draft.
Jan 11, 2020 · Nothing is more satisfying than placing a tile and seeing it activating the surrounding tiles. Other favourite games with this mechanism - creating chains of tiles allowing you to produce goods and ship them creating little chains you can activate.
There are several versions of Azul that use similar tile drafting mechanics, but different tile-laying rules and different scoring mechanisms.
Drafting Mechanic: The game uses a complex drafting mechanic where you can choose to take all the tiles of one colour from a factory display, places the rest of the tiles in the middle of the table.
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The first three games in the series involve setting up 2n+1 'factories' for n players, each with 4 random tiles. The players take turns drafting by taking all tiles of a single colour from a factory and putting the rest in a central factory.
