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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 |
AnabelleT
This is a cool, simple game. I've thought about how to win, but I can't figure it out, I even surprise myself when I win and sometimes people who shouldn't win, end up winning, so I don't know, but it's fun to play.
PBrennan
Each turn you either pick up a stack of 3 tiles and place it on your board (max 3), pick up a tile off someone else's board (usually) and place it in your hand, or play a tile from your hand to score all topmost tiles in that colour across all players. The scoring requires you to score in all colours. The shortish game length means you only need to score each colour once or twice to be in the running, so your main question is whether to aim to have all of one colour showing and score them all at once (regardless of what other people have) and then move on to the next colour, or leech off other player scorings. Best is both. I had a few problems with the game - the tile stealing drove me nuts and made a short game even less controllable, the luck in the tile colour ordering in the stacks available to you had too large a say in what is a very tight scoring system, and the complete lack of theme didn't encourage me back.
DroppEcho
Nearly a perfect information game (hidden yet trackable) which aims to be a simple filler with Knizia-esque scoring mechanisms and with the one-player-automatically-loses mechanism also. Simple actions to gather and place chips into your scoring area via a pit stop along the way, where they are vulnerable. It works. It might not be fun, though.