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Pandoria
90m - 120m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 10+
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
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
Variable Player Powers is a mechanic that grants different abilities and/or paths to victory to the players.
Variable Player Powers
This mechanism requires players to select individual actions from a set of actions available to all players. Players generally select actions one-at-a-time and in turn order. There is usually(*) a limit on the number of times a single action may be taken. Actions are commonly selected by the placement of game pieces or tokens on the selected actions. Each player usually has a limited number of pieces with which to participate in the process.
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jgoyes
2021-10-30 Initial Rating: 6.0 (October 2021) Bernd Eisenstein is a designer I respect a lot. I don’t usually like his games but, for some reason, I´m always keen to play them. After I did, I can say the game is ok, but it is not a game for me. Pandoria´s rules are easy to teach, you can do it under 6 minutes. Playtime is around 2 hours. The game´s components are good as is the art. Near the end of the game, the board looks gorgeous. The theme is generic fantasy and, in any case, it is pasted on. You don’t really feel it through the game. I don´t like the name of the game (I also didn’t like the name of World of Warcatft: Pandaria lol), I´m not sure why. I do like that Eisenstein continues to name his games with the letter P. Gameplay is fun and the game offers (somewhat) interesting decisions. On your turn you must place a tile on the board, you may place a meeple on the just placed tile (just like Carcassonne), you may play a spell or a build a building, you score if you completed a terrain and then you may buy a card, most actions are optional but you must always place a tile to advance the game. The game´s phases are clearly defined so the game is easily understood. The idea of the game is to position your meeples in zones adjacent to terrains that are about to get closed by a player, in this way you will earn resources and VPs. The cards, and buildings change the rules and give you advantages during the game. The advanced game also has different player powers, I hope they are balanced and I will probably find more about this soon. The luck factor is present with the tiles that you draw and the available cards, so far, this luck hasn’t bothered me much but it bothers me nonetheless. The replay values seems high and there already an expansion out. Bottom line, Pandoria is an ok game for me, BUT I do want to explore it further. The decisions needed to play the game aren’t very hard to process, but you really need to think things though. Tile laying is not among my favorite game´s mechanisms but it is the central mechanism of the game. I already sold my copy of the game but I´m willing to play the game again. I wish the game was a bit shorter. With more plays its rating could go up or down, that is, I´m still undecided about it. Current Rating: 6.0
IvanGrimm
I really need to play this more. I have not seen all that this game has to offer. I just wish the player boards looked nicer
Kweevnidny
Quick dummy play by myself - it looks a lot deeper than first glance gives, rules are clear, can't wait to play it properly but I get good vibes. Update to follow