When it`s your turn, just play one of the two building tiles in your hand on your city board. You can put it on any empty square on the board, pay attention to the flower icon you cover, and then immediately evaluate the tile. Take out a new building from the room in the market (town square) that matches the symbol of the flower you covered. Unveil a new tile from the pile and place it in the empty space of the market. With that, it`s your turn. We also love how our cities evolve differently every time we play. During scoring, all players note down all the tiles of this particular type that have already been placed on their personal city boards. The revaluation rules are slightly different, with offices, subways and parks getting 2 points per tile and homes and businesses in the same way as the regular rating. If a Community tile is withdrawn from the market, it must be placed on the territory of the Community and its place on the market must be reconstituted. Whenever a player places a tile on a flowery square in their city, they can activate a bonus promotion. The player can choose to score twice or take another move immediately after completing their first turn. Players are not allowed to wager bonus promotions during their turn that they won with the bonus promotion.
Bloom Town is an urban tile laying game that will remind you a lot between two cities or Warsaw: City of Ruins. Each player starts the game with an empty city board, a bonus token, and two randomly hidden construction tiles. Community tiles are mixed into the remaining building tiles and divided into piles (depending on the number of players) and placed on the board of the town square in the middle of the playing area. In Bloom Town, all players have their own game board on which they place tiles to build their city to their liking. And they get the tiles to play with from a common central area – which means they`re also competing for those precious tiles. Scoring mechanisms can be a bit random. You may find it hard to explain exactly why rows of commercial buildings are good. But nevertheless, in 10 minutes, you will have everyone up to date and lay tiles immediately. And the gameplay is engaging enough with a lot to think about with very low rules. To start the game, a number of building tiles must be removed from the game, depending on the number of players. Remove two tiles from each building type and three two from each. Players must ensure that the same store is not deleted twice.
Each player then collects a city board, a bonus token and two random construction tiles that are given face down. When building, a player must place a construction tile in an empty room in the city. Once they have finished placing the tile of the building, they will evaluate the construction. The number of points scored is equal to the number of Bloom points earned by the player. The last thumbnail is the only one that is evaluated. Once the score is complete, the player recovers a building tile in the market room that corresponds to the flower he has just covered with his construction. A game of Bloom Town ends when two of the five piles of stones are exhausted (three in a 2-player game). Each player still has two stones in his hand and can choose the one he wants to score again and throw the other. This is not a regular score, but a reassessment of all your board buildings of this type! The person who has collected the most Bloom points during the game wins Bloom Town! The thing about city building games is that they can really be quite complex. Bloom Town is perhaps the lightest shot I can remember. It`s a bit like Carcassonne with its “play a tile, draw a tile” approach to create your own small town. Hits: • Simple rules with just enough depth to make decisions interesting.
• Great gateway game with a theme that is almost universally appealing. With very simple rules, Bloom Town is a simple game to dive into and play. Some areas of your Bloom Town board of directors have additional growth and are called “flowering squares.” If you build in one of these areas, you will be rewarded with an additional reward at the same time. You can either score twice as many points for the tile you just built, or choose to take an extra move right away without replenishing the market until the end of your entire turn. All players also have a bonus token that you can use once in each turn to score a tile twice, take an extra turn, or trigger a community score (recoring) for a building type if it hasn`t been re-evaluated yet (more on that in a second). As you can see, the rules of the game are very simple and easy to follow. The trick is how each type of building is evaluated. The symbols at the top of the town square are a reminder of how everyone scores. Offices evaluates points based on other Office sign-in tiles in the same row and column where the Office tile is placed. To mark, all Office tiles in the row and column must be connected.
Today we look at Bloom Town, a lighter interpretation of this theme and these mechanisms. You and up to 3 other of your favorite players can put your suburban planning to the test. With several things to think about while playing, this makes it a captivating gaming experience! These are not difficult decisions, but they are effective enough to provide a good mental challenge. The titular player takes the first round of the game. The game continues clockwise around the table until the end of the game. When it`s your turn, you`ll need to follow steps A, B, and C in the order shown: 2 Give each player 1 city board (use side A for your first few games), 1 bonus token, and 2 randomly hidden building tiles. Earn twice as many flowering points for the tile you just created. Even though there are several things to consider during the game.
These are not stressful decisions. But we love decision layers. Parks score based on other park tiles connected to each other. Parks score more points when grouped together. Diagonals don`t count. Buildings whose neighbors are adjacent to other neighbors (and even their neighbors) of the same type are all considered connected. You can choose one of three bonus promotions – the first two are the same as those a player gets when building on a flowery square. Luckily for us, the great team at Sidekick Games sent us a copy for review, so we didn`t have to wait long! After placing your tile, you can`t necessarily choose only the replacement tile of your choice.