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Senshi
15m - 20m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
You are a senshi, a warrior-monk studying diligently at the temple under the tutelage of the current master. You and your fellow students train vigorously every day to improve your mind and body, but your master is ailing, and only one senshi will become the next master. To prove your worth, you must develop four attributes: strength, agility, wisdom, and honor. A true master must be strong in all of these, and weak in none.
Senshi is a strategy game for 2-4 players that takes only 15 minutes to play! Carefully manipulate stacks of tiles that represent your four attributes: strength, agility, wisdom, and honor. Competing in a battle of wits, players will choose one of three actions each turn: study to take stacks of tiles, train to take a single tile off any stack, and test to score tiles when the time is optimal.
Whoever has the tallest scoring pile of any of the four attributes at the end of the game wins; however, first the player with the shortest scoring pile is eliminated. Watch your opponent’s moves closely and exploit their weaknesses to achieve the great honor of becoming the temple’s next master!
| Ages | 14+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | 15m – 20m |
| Designer | Dan Manfredini |
| Mechanics | Set Collection |
| Theme | Abstract Strategy |
| Publisher | Arcane Wonders |
Overexposed
Compact little abstract game of taking and placing coloured chips. The mechanics are simple (and completely devoid of any theme); you either take chips into your piles, take a chip into your hand, or play a chip from your hand into your scoring stacks. If you choose the scoring option though, everyone else gets to do the same with the same colour for free, so it becomes a game of positioning colours to try to benefit from others' turns as much as possible. The scoring is very Knizia-esque: any player with the least score in one colour is eliminated from the game at the end, and the remaining player with the single highest colour score is the winner. I.e. you the goal is to get some of every colour, but also the most of one. Enjoyable, but not essential.
LabRat002a
A small abstract game. The strategy is a little interesting, but not deep. And the theme is rather pasted on, but works abstractly. The chips look cheap.
dgardenhire
This is a completely underrated game! Very enjoyable as a short filler and brain warm-up for more complex games. I can’t believe this hasn’t been rated higher. I bought this as one of my first games last year when I began getting into board gaming. I then avoided it based on some very misleading, snobbish, and frankly effete reviews of “elite” board gamers. The game is clever, quick and fun.