Board game WoodCat Keyflower (ukr) ( WG0224POUK-1 )

DESCRIPTION OF THE BOARD GAME KEYFLOWER 

 The Keyflower game offers a great opportunity to found and lead a new settlement. Each such settlement needs a constant influx of people - a workforce that will be useful for successful development. As a leader, you will face competition by choosing which buildings are better to build, attracting new residents and making great efforts to get good jobs. You will have to take care of increasing the workforce, solve logistical problems and activate production buildings in a timely manner.

FOUNDING A NEW SETTLEMENT

 You start the game with a central village building, the heart of your settlement. The starting building determines the available level of resource transportation and building improvements (at the start, you have the option to make one improvement and move goods with a transport capacity of 1).

 Get a screen house and place 8 chips behind it. They must be taken from a bag in which chips of three colors will be mixed: red, blue and yellow.

 The gameplay is divided into four rounds. Each round corresponds to a season of the year: spring, summer, autumn and winter. At the beginning of each season (except winter), new building tiles will be available on the market, the inventory of chips and improvements in boats will be replenished, and the first player's tile will be transferred. You can start developing your settlement...

RESIDENTS OF VILLAGES

 A large number of chips of four colors form the population base. Initially, chips of three colors participate in the game (they are placed in a bag). Green meeples are out of the game and will start it only through special buildings in your settlement or neighboring settlements. Each player keeps their population behind a screen. This is a very important moment in the game, since the color of the chips divides them into groups. One of the mechanics in the Keyflower game is the auction. Bets at this auction should be made by a group of chips of the same color. If a player made a bet with red worker chips, then it can only be beaten by workers of the same color. In addition to the participation of chips in the auction, an important action is the activation of a building, where color also matters.

AVAILABLE ACTIONS

 There are three main actions available in the game, on which the entire game is based: using a building, bidding at the auction, and transporting with improvements.

 Using a building (production). It is worth noting that there are no restrictions on the use of buildings in the game, so you can use any building in your settlement, a neighbor's settlement, and even on the market. To use a building's property, simply place a worker token in it. Placing this token allows you to immediately use the building's properties: get improvements, produce a resource, take workers from the general supply for a shield, etc. You can use a building no more than three times in one round. This is regulated as follows: each subsequent activation requires one more worker, and their color must match the color of the first. Another restriction is the number of workers on a tile - no more than six. Do you feel the full scale of the meanness that can be pulled off?.. Placing 3 tokens on someone else's building means that the owner will not be able to use it. At the end of the round, the owners of the buildings take all the workers placed on them for their own shield.

 Participation in the auction. Your settlement needs development, so buying tiles is inevitable. You will have to compete for beautiful buildings. Place a bet with chips of the same color (possibly with one worker, which often happens) on one of the tiles on the market or the first player's tile. Placed meeples can no longer be returned behind the screen, but you can increase their number or move them as a bet on another tile. If your bet is outbid, and it can only be outbid by a group of workers of the same color, place a new bet or activate the tile.

 All worker tokens participating in the auction are returned to the bag. After the auction is over, take your tiles for yourself. If there were workers on these tiles that activated their properties, they are yours. Add new buildings to your settlement, taking into account the logistics and rules of tile placement: road to road, water to water, grass to grass - like in Carcassonne.

 Transportation and improvements. One of the most interesting parts of the game is that you actually do all the actions in order to ultimately deliver the necessary resource to the necessary tile. Resources collected on a tile either allow you to improve it or accumulate to get victory points. Transportation is very important, since resources extracted from rivals' enterprises accumulate on the central building tile - in order to use them, you will need to deliver them to the right place. The transportation capacity determines the value on the cart: 3 or 5. For example, a value of 5 means that you can use 5 movement points: 1 resource for 5 tiles; 5 resources for 1 tile; 2 resources for 2 tiles and 1 resource for 1 tile. The situation is similar with improvements - the number of houses determines the number of possible improvements. Spend the necessary resource and turn the building tile over - now the building is working at full capacity and will bring more points at the end of the game.

WAITING FOR WINTER

 Each season has its own set of building tiles. Tiles at the beginning of the season refresh the market and become available to players. With winter tiles, the process is similar, but has a number of differences. Winter tiles represent goals, achieving which at the end of the game you can get good points. In this regard, winter tiles are distributed at the beginning of the game to players - 2 or 3 depending on the number of participants.

 So, each player has a hidden goal or goals that can determine his strategy for the entire game. When the last round comes, players place winter tiles on the market as they wish. They can refuse to do so. They also turn the boat tiles and the first player's tile upside down. All tiles are available for trading. Then the round proceeds according to standard rules, and after it ends, points are counted.

FEATURES OF MECHANICS

 The Keyflower board game has many mechanics that are so well intertwined that it is sometimes difficult to imagine the game without any of them. The game has an auction, worker placement, tile placement, resource movement, secret goals and many unloved screens. Add to this the green chips that the players themselves introduce into the game during the process. This allows you to make unique bets and be sure that they will not be beaten. There will come a time when the green worker will get into the bag and this will immediately change the situation. Here is such a borscht, gentlemen.

WHO IS THE GAME FOR?

 If you want a relaxed and measured family game, then Keyflower is definitely not for you. Keyflower is a euro for experienced players who are not against open interaction: miscalculating opponents' moves, interfering in their plans, analyzing the best action among the available ones and, of course, the auction. The game uses many mechanics that make it a real hit in the euro segment.

Equipment Keyflower (ukr) (What in the box?):
64 large hexagonal tiles;
48 skill tokens;
120 wooden resource tokens;
140 wooden workers;
1 purple first player worker;
6 screen houses;
1 cloth bag;
12 zip-lock bags for storing components;
1 rulebook.


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