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Books of Time
45m - 60m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
Hand Management
The primary goal of a set collection mechanic is to encourage a player to collect a set of items.
Set Collection
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jobby
Played a shortened demo version of the game at UKGE. This is mostly a collect cards that give you bonuses kind of game (seen a few of those!). The mini ring-binders is a cute gimmick and does result in an interesting turning--the-pages mechanism but does that make this a good game?
keitho761
A word about the components. One, some of the cards have a dented defect on the edges - not good. Two, the cards and boards tend to warp. Not so much warp, but curve up depending how they're facing. Just looks bad. There's a cheap look to the art choices with most of the tokens. Last, publishers, please stop using shades of red and green that are similar. These colors are the most common type of colorblind deficiency. Or at least add a trim design. I mean, Ticket to Ride figure this out in 2004. Hopefully, the gameplay will transcend these things to lessen my initial problems. Game score and more comments pending... I'm done with Board and Dice. They don't address colorblindness. This is the second $50 I bought of theirs that has this problem (Tiletum being the other. It was unplayable). The only way I will risk buying another of their games is if they put colorblind tested on the side of box. Thoughts about the game: This is a fun game to interact with. Thematically, one is creating these volumes of books depicting historical events and people. It's not a deck builder where you will be flipping through pages, but more like your building an encyclopedia you'll be thumbing through. I wish they had at least put dates on each card. It's understandable why they didn't put names for language independence. The mechanism open a handful of options to consider to gain points without being over taxing. Good fun. Would I still get this given my initial complaints? Yes. The colors are just tolerable (I had to buy a magnifying glass to see the colors up close on the cards). Might like: Coimbra Galileo Project Catherine The Cities of Tsarina Timeline
Fragasnap
Books are cute but feel strangely secondary to the game. The major scoring actions are Writing into your books (thereby fulfilling your Objectives) and Advancing on the tracks, each of which are done most efficiently by consuming any number of your unbounded resources at a single time in a turn. The Books serve primarily as a source of Resources, and so the early game is trying to get some decent sources of resources, and then cranking out resources for your big turn of writing and a big end-game turn of advancing as far as you can on each track. Advancing on the tracks is further encouraged at the end game because there are scoring conditions on the track that give points for the opposite of what the books' objectives require (Science giving points for many symbols and Industry giving points for collecting many of the same symbol especially). This is also the most heads-down a resource conversion game I've seen in some time. The only reason thinking about other players is ever relevant is hate-drafting Trade cards (because the Trade Objective must be completed in order making it moderately challenging to complete).