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Lanterns: The Harvest Festival
30m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 8+
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
Pattern Building is a system where players place game components in specific patterns in order to gain specific or variable game results. For example: placing chips on 2, 4, 6, 8 on a board gets the player an action card they can use later in the game.
Pattern Building
The primary goal of a set collection mechanic is to encourage a player to collect a set of items.
Set Collection
Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs, with the amount often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
Tile Placement
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Achire
Lanterns is one of my gateway games of choice. It is so simple that I can literally tell people at a game night to learn it from the instructions (or explain it to them in under 5 minutes while players in another game are taking their turn), and yet it is a deeply satisfying experience that teaches the mechanisms of tile-laying, set collection, and predicting other's actions (through the dedication system). There is a bit of a luck element in the tile draw that balances the game a bit for newer players, but largely it's a game of laying tiles to maximize returns for yourself while depriving competitors of cards they need and not opening up huge opportunities for someone who might be in possession of a lucky tile. New players tend to be charmed by Lanterns and seasoned players like it as a filler.
andylenox
I gave the game away after a couple of plays. Just not my cup of tea. I felt railroaded into optimal decisions, and there was little way to get ahead or behind in point totals as long as you took a minute to examine the game state. Would be good for younger players I think.
Agropyron
A strategic tile laying and set collection game that plays well with two players. The play involves selecting the best tile to play of three in your hand, to match lantern colours with tiles already played. I like the way each player receives a card when anyone lays a tile, based on the colour of the lanterns facing them. The strategy is based on playing a tile to allow you to gain the most lanterns to complete sets and perhaps preventing your opponents from completing their sets. Sets are used to gain honour tokens, with the tokens decreasing in value for subsequent sets played. Visually pleasing, pleasant and relaxing to play.