FITS

FITS (Fill In The Spaces)

The game I want to introduce this week is Fits. It is a new game published early in this year and has soon won a award.It looks like Tetris and has almost the same rules. The game can be played with more than one people. Everyone take a board and a set of pieces of their color, and then draw a starting card, which shows the first piece they have to put on the board, so that everyone won't have the same situation. Players put on pieces shown on the cards after every cards are revealed one by one, but you can't slide it horizontally like Tetris do. After every pieces are put, count the space on the board and score.

The game has four boards, with different rules and scoring, and there are more with expansions.

I have played it for some times and I thing I'm GOOD. It is also fun even if it's played alone. One of my friends won the first place in a contest, but after that he didn't win often. Maybe it's because the contest had the wrong rule, which we know after a while.

Thebes

Thebes

The game I want to introduce this time is Thebes. Players are archeologists that travel around Europe and Egypt's historical sites to explore ancient culture and artifacts, but before they do, they have to collect enough knowledge. The more "intelligence" they are, the more and faster can they excavate treasure artifacts. And sometimes, when there are exhibitions where you can have your artifacts in display.

The game is special with is that player don't take actions in the same "time." There is a time track on the game board which has 52 spaces that means 52 weeks of a year. Every action takes different time, so players may be in different week. The one that is the furthest back always act first.

The other special thing are the time wheels, which are not seen often. It shows how long and how many artifacts you can excavate depend on how much knowledge you have collected.

There aren't many action in a turn, so the game's is fast. It is also exciting when you excavates. You draw artifact tokens out from cloth bags, but the tokens are not all artifacts, dirt are blended in, so it is common that you draw five tokens and there are only one artifact. And then drawn dirt are put back in the bag. Therefore, the earlier you make an excavation, there are more chance to dig out treasures.

At the end, the player with the most valuable artifacts, the most knowledge, and the most exhibitions wins.

Roll Through the Ages( The Late Bronze Age)

The new game I want to introduce to you is Roll Through the Ages and it's new version The Late Bronze Age. The owner is my friend and my bf loves it so much that he really wants to buy one after his first play. I have played it for many times, most of the times are with my bf. He likes to research for new ways of winning and discuss them with me.

The box is not big, but it's heavy and it's full. It contains 7 dices, players' peg boards, marking peg, and a thick book of scoring sheet. It's simple and mostly wood-made, so many people just made one by themselves.

Players roll dice to obtain commodities and workers to build up their civilizations. Dice can be rerolled twice unless they come up as a hazard. Players use their workers to build infrastructure to support additional works or to build monuments that are worth points. At the same time commodities are gathered which allow your civilization to develop. Once all monuments or five (in new version seven) developments are achieved by a player the game ends at the end of the round, points are counted, and a victor is declared.

We have played it for not many times, but my bf loves it after his first play. He likes to think of new strategies and methods to win. He even borrowed it home and played it alone just to think and try new ideas. I think it's fun, too, but I haven't win many games. I think I'll have to think and pray more. After all, it's a dice game( winning depends mostly in luck).