Splendor – Improve your networking skills
Build momentum through asset acquisition. It sounds simple enough and Splendor does a great job in making it easy, but being efficent at it is an art form. This is one of those games that possesses the dichotomy of those brilliantly designed: the rules are simple and the layout is minimalist, but developing a winning strategy is far from easy. It's a 30 minute, 2-4 player game easy to grasp by new players, but the complexity hidden behind the simple mechanics makes it interesting, challenging and will leave you wanting to play it again. Before I explain how the game mechanics follow the same principles as networking, let's have a look at these first: There are cards (assets), poker chips (gems), and noble tokens (victory points). During a player's turn, he may take up to 3 chips or buy cards (paying their cost in chips). The chips and card prices are of different colors, and so to buy a particular card you must pay the correct combination of colored chips. Each card you [Read full post...]