Get that new tractor - it's worth 18 pts! That's a lot in our games that typically score around 60 or 70. The shed is another complexity where you get (as said) bonus abilities, but often you are choosing a specific scoring lane.

It's as if someone is pouring ping-pong balls over your head and you have to catch them! Don't drop any! Did one roll under a table? The game literally rains down checkboxes! But it is confusing too and you feel like you may have cheated or forgotten some check here or there. I think I did? I was busy checking off flowers and getting more goods!' I get why it is in the design - it is generous in giving you checks on your papers which feels good. 'Did we take our second Farmer's Market action? I forget. The other troublesome aspect is although you get to pull a die, when all are done doing so, everyone gets to take the action of the remaining (lowest value) die! And further, everyone gets an action at the end of the round too - which at times is the same action you just took from the lowest die! My wife and I stare at each other. Did I get my extra flower? Did I check off something in the shed? I forget because I was busy counting my goods and harvesting pumpkins. if you harvest a peach, you also get goods - more checks! Remembering these bonuses is challenging because they are textually represented and tucked into the checkbox areas themselves. Atop that is the shed which along with flowers can give you in-game bonuses - e.g. There is a high chance of making mistakes as the cascade of checks ping-pongs around and across the sheets, so you need to carefully proceed as one check can give you another and that can give you another. The game is quite brisk, getting off the table almost before you want it to - and the feeling of one more check here or there or 'I should have gone that way, why did I do that?' is quite strong.

When you pull a die off, you plant and also get the action where the die was: more planting or watering, apiary or fruit, goods and compost, shed action or the Farmer's Market - that's where the number of goods you've checked off determines how many flowers and compost/fruit you receive back. The game lasts a fixed number of rounds and at the start, a player rolls all the dice, and places them ascending on what appears to be a rondel, but is really just a circular selection of actions. It is frantic in the cascade of checkboxes! Check! Check! Check! Go for the garden, well, you won't have much going on in your fruits, but you will have loads of goods from your pumpkins! And that's good - because goods means more actions and actions means more actions and more points and well, you get the idea. One sheet is the garden and flowers, the other is your apiary (bees), fruit trees, goods, compost and shed! Whew! So many choices! And you won't be able to check them all off - again, like many good roll-and-writes, there are lanes of scoring that nearly conflict with each other. This presents as a daunting game (again, shared by Clever) due to the number of spots and variety of actions. But that is only half of the story - literally, you have two sheets of paper with a few hundred (!!) boxes to check. If you happen to complete an adjoining pair of pumpkins, you get a perennial - a flower - scattered among several types. You can modify those pips by using up acquired compost which is great because each area in your garden is slightly different in pumpkins and perennials. When you pull a die from the display, the pips determine where you plant: two items - either corn or beans (once your corn has grown a bit) or pumpkins. And that's how it works here: you have 6 areas to plant in your garden. I love the theme because it is very inviting and nearly instantly known - if you plant and water, things will grow. Here the theme is fetching: the three sisters are corn, beans and pumpkins - with flowers, fruit, bees, goods, compost and a shed added for good measure.

Agricola most famously, but really anything around his grow/garden theme), then you'll feel at home with Sisters. If you've played anything by Uwe Rosenberg (e.g.

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