A player leads with something (a single card, three of a kind, a run of 5 or more.) and then each next player must play the same thing but of a higher value or pass. At it's core, it's a pretty simple ladder climbing games. This game is super popular in certain groups. It is easy to explain but there is enough depth there to keep me interested for the entire run time which is long enough to allow for longer term planning and strategy and short enough to leave time for a few fillers or even super fillers on your gaming schedule. This is a very sold medium weight euro that mostly combines well known elements with a few unique twists. Publishers, pay attention: this is how you should produce games: nice, functional but not overproduced and most of all: high quality. And despite all this fancy stuff, there is no plastic in this game at all and everything has a nice European finish to it. Nice! On top of that, the game comes with six cardboard boxes to conveniently store the components in. It has (single layer) embossed boards, interlocking cogs and wooden blocks with embossed letters.

This game is not overproduced or overpriced, yet it has nice components. The cogs are a neat mechanism that doesn't make a whole lot of thematic sense, but that's fine, this is a dry euro and the choices it provides are compelling, and that's what counts.

Investing lower amounts on all actions will probably mean you're not going first on any of them, and that will probably make it hard to optimize things. The blind bidding for turn order for each action separately is quite unique and works well as players will be forced to prioritize certain actions. They puzzle those things together to fulfill those orders to the best of their abilities (preferably with all bonuses) go get income, points and bonuses.Īll pretty standard euro stuff. Over six rounds, players blind bid for turn order for the different actions which give them orders, resources, increase their skill levels and other things.

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