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Bristol 1350 | Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig | Goats' Day Out Which Game First: A Board Game Podcast
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Welcome to Which Game First where we boldly explore the hilariously huge world of board games. Did we unearth any hidden treasures you’ve been missing out on? Let’s find out!
First: We try to catch the last cart out of town as we scramble away from black death in Bristol 1350 Next: We draft rather unique castles to please a picky regent in Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig And lastly: It’s party time as we gobble up all the trash in our neighborhood in Goat’s Day Out.
Bristol 1350
Designed by: Travis HancockPublished by: Facade Games (2021)Players: 1 – 9Ages: 13 & upPlaying time: 20 – 40 minutes
Bristol 1350 is a race against your opponents, as the dreaded Black Death has descended upon the town of Bristol, and you are racing down the streets in one of the three available apple carts, desperate to escape into the safety of the countryside.
Each player’s meeple starts on one of three carts, and starts the game with two symptom cards, which are always kept secret. The cards are numbered 1 to 4. During the game, you may have to get new symptom cards, and if they add up to 6, you are plagued!
Each player gets a remedy card as well, Remedies help the players with special actions during the race out of town. Six Dice are then rolled, which will act as the movement for the carts, plus if two or more rats of the same color as the cart is rolled, all players in that cart add a symptom card to their hand, combine all players cards in the cart, reshuffle, and redeal two cards to each player in the cart. let’s hope you don’t have 6 or more after the redealing.
Take one of three actions per turn: reroll two dice, draw a new remedy, or move inside your cart or to another cart. If you leave town with a plagued villager on your cart, you will catch the plague. You must do whatever is necessary to make sure that doesn’t happen!
If your cart is the first to leave the town and it is full of only healthy villagers when you leave, you and your fellow cart-mates successfully escape and win the game, to live another day in the healthy world that used to be Bristol circa 1350!
Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig
Designed by: Ted AlspachPublished by: Bézier Games (2024)Players: 1 – 5Ages: 15 & upPlaying time: 60 minutes
Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig is a flip and sketch strategy game, where you are an architect in the time of Mad King Ludwig, trying to test your architectural skills to impress the mad king, as you draw the most extravagant blueprints for his next castle!
Select rooms to add to your castle’s floor plan. As you complete rooms’ entrances by connecting them to other rooms, earn new abilities such as adding or removing entrances, earning new bonus cards, and taking extra turns. Keep your eye on the King’s favors to beat out your opponents for public goals, as well as create courtyards and moats around your castle for some massive points to get ahead!
The player who sketches the castle most suited to the whims of King Ludwig takes the royal victory, and is duly rewarded with now having to build this palace which is most likely, unbuildable!
Goats’ Day Out
Designed by: Rebecca Bleau, Nicholas CravottaPublished by: ThinkFun (2023)Players: 2 – 5Ages: 8 & upPlaying time: 30 – 60 minutes
Goats’ Day Out is a tile drafting and tableau building game, where each player is a hungry hungry goat. Plates of food scraps, old clothing, and other equally delicious edibles are passed around on plates in front of you,
Welcome to Which Game First where we boldly explore the hilariously huge world of board games. Did we unearth any hidden treasures you’ve been missing out on? Let’s find out!
First: We try to catch the last cart out of town as we scramble away from black death in Bristol 1350 Next: We draft rather unique castles to please a picky regent in Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig And lastly: It’s party time as we gobble up all the trash in our neighborhood in Goat’s Day Out.
Bristol 1350
Designed by: Travis HancockPublished by: Facade Games (2021)Players: 1 – 9Ages: 13 & upPlaying time: 20 – 40 minutes
Bristol 1350 is a race against your opponents, as the dreaded Black Death has descended upon the town of Bristol, and you are racing down the streets in one of the three available apple carts, desperate to escape into the safety of the countryside.
Each player’s meeple starts on one of three carts, and starts the game with two symptom cards, which are always kept secret. The cards are numbered 1 to 4. During the game, you may have to get new symptom cards, and if they add up to 6, you are plagued!
Each player gets a remedy card as well, Remedies help the players with special actions during the race out of town. Six Dice are then rolled, which will act as the movement for the carts, plus if two or more rats of the same color as the cart is rolled, all players in that cart add a symptom card to their hand, combine all players cards in the cart, reshuffle, and redeal two cards to each player in the cart. let’s hope you don’t have 6 or more after the redealing.
Take one of three actions per turn: reroll two dice, draw a new remedy, or move inside your cart or to another cart. If you leave town with a plagued villager on your cart, you will catch the plague. You must do whatever is necessary to make sure that doesn’t happen!
If your cart is the first to leave the town and it is full of only healthy villagers when you leave, you and your fellow cart-mates successfully escape and win the game, to live another day in the healthy world that used to be Bristol circa 1350!
Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig
Designed by: Ted AlspachPublished by: Bézier Games (2024)Players: 1 – 5Ages: 15 & upPlaying time: 60 minutes
Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig is a flip and sketch strategy game, where you are an architect in the time of Mad King Ludwig, trying to test your architectural skills to impress the mad king, as you draw the most extravagant blueprints for his next castle!
Select rooms to add to your castle’s floor plan. As you complete rooms’ entrances by connecting them to other rooms, earn new abilities such as adding or removing entrances, earning new bonus cards, and taking extra turns. Keep your eye on the King’s favors to beat out your opponents for public goals, as well as create courtyards and moats around your castle for some massive points to get ahead!
The player who sketches the castle most suited to the whims of King Ludwig takes the royal victory, and is duly rewarded with now having to build this palace which is most likely, unbuildable!
Goats’ Day Out
Designed by: Rebecca Bleau, Nicholas CravottaPublished by: ThinkFun (2023)Players: 2 – 5Ages: 8 & upPlaying time: 30 – 60 minutes
Goats’ Day Out is a tile drafting and tableau building game, where each player is a hungry hungry goat. Plates of food scraps, old clothing, and other equally delicious edibles are passed around on plates in front of you,
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