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Topic	eighty tabletop games, ranked
SeabassDebeste 03/01/18 11:48:56 AM #377:	51. Tokaido https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/123540/tokaido Genre/mechanics: Set collection, linear movement Rules complexity: 3/10 Game length: 25-40 minutes Player count: 2-5 Experience: 3 plays across 2 sessions (one online), 3-5 players First played: 2017 Tokaido features a linear map representing a path you can take on your vacation to Japan. It's your turn when your character is at the back of the line, and you can move to any stop you want, as long as no one else is there at the time, and then enjoy the sights/take a card/action. Your turn ends once you're no longer the last person in line. Three times a game, everyone meets up at one map point to eat together. Design - By far the best part of Tokaido is the theme and aesthetics. Boil this down to its components - a very simplistic set collection game with incentive to grab territories to prevent opponents from being able to take the same ones - and it may or may not be rewarding. But the theme of the game tells you to take vacation and enjoy the sights and feel good about yourself... and that's exactly what you should do. It's played at a relaxed pace, and the components almsot demand more that you look at them rather than try to optimize them: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1351507/tokaido Experience - I've only played Tokaido a few times, and it's the only game on the list where I've played with strangers online. Let's just say it's not the same in that setting, at all. My favorite part of the game: eating. Future - Tokaido is more of a filler-ish game due to the abstraction of the theme and the short, non-cutthroat playtime. But I'd be happy to be teaching/playing it on a game night where others were intensely grinding through a nasty Euro. Bonus question - What's your favorite relaxing game? Hint for #50 - a game with two miniatures, where the one depicted on the box is by far the cutest and most powerful --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:896988296] in eighty tab... [t:76312453]...</cite> <quote>51. Tokaido https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/123540/tokaido Genre/mechanics: Set collection, linear movement Rules complexity: 3/10 Game length: 25-40 minutes Player count: 2-5 Experience: 3 plays across 2 sessions (one online), 3-5 players First played: 2017 Tokaido features a linear map representing a path you can take on your vacation to Japan. It's your turn when your character is at the back of the line, and you can move to any stop you want, as long as no one else is there at the time, and then enjoy the sights/take a card/action. Your turn ends once you're no longer the last person in line. Three times a game, everyone meets up at one map point to eat together. Design - By far the best part of Tokaido is the theme and aesthetics. Boil this down to its components - a very simplistic set collection game with incentive to grab territories to prevent opponents from being able to take the same ones - and it may or may not be rewarding. But the theme of the game tells you to take vacation and enjoy the sights and feel good about yourself... and that's exactly what you should do. It's played at a relaxed pace, and the components almsot demand more that you look at them rather than try to optimize them: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1351507/tokaido Experience - I've only played Tokaido a few times, and it's the only game on the list where I've played with strangers online. Let's just say it's not the same in that setting, at all. My favorite part of the game: eating. Future - Tokaido is more of a filler-ish game due to the abstraction of the theme and the short, non-cutthroat playtime. But I'd be happy to be teaching/playing it on a game night where others were intensely grinding through a nasty Euro. Bonus question - What's your favorite relaxing game? Hint for #50 - a game with two miniatures, where the one depicted on the box is by far the cutest and most powerful --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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