May's Deathmatch theme is....
🕑 Added 2024-04-29 17:32:19 +0000 UTCYou've all voted, and now it's time to get your submissions in for the BEST games that are EASY TO LEARN AND HARD TO MASTER!
We're taking the phrase into overdrive! Drop your examples down below, games that have a low rules overhead but have a great strategic complexity. Which games will battle to win it all next month!
Go forth and suggest!
Comments
Daniel Evans
Easy to learn?
Daniel Evans
Monumental, Babylonia, Furnace, Istanbul, Kahuna,
J&C Vandenhouten
RA, Smallworld, Dominion, Samurai, Through the Desert, Mykerinos
Carlos
Project L, Splendor (unless you're Chris), Automobiles, Heat, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Cascadia, Guards of Atlantis II, Wingspan
Gary Brittsan
I'll put my vote in for Hanabi and The Crew (Mission Deep Sea, of course)
Ron Rubinstein
+1 for the crew!
JB
+1 tiny towns
VaultBoy
Inis +1 Crokinole
Peter Riecks
Era: Medieval Age, It's a Wonderful World, Tiny Towns, Khet
Steve Bahr
Chess, 20 Strong, Bullet Heart/Star, Cascadia, Concordia, Pandemic, 7 Wonders, Hanabi, Crokinole
James Vincent
Voidfall
Shawn Marx
I think it's ruleset is really easy to go over. Not Santorini level, but compared to even something like Carcassonne when considering scoring...I'd say it's on par. It just is on a whole other level of brain burn.
JB
Oregon Trail is a joke, btw
JB
im not sure i agree mythic mishief is easy to learn. I think i understand what you're saying but asymmetric factions dont feel like they fit the topic
JB
Chess, Go, Summoner Wars, Azul, Carcasonne, Dominion, Five Tribes, Flip Ships, Ice Cool, Millie Fiori, Nidavellier, Oregon Trail the card game, Res Arcana, Tiny Towns
Shawn Marx
Crockinole, Mythic Mischief, The Crew
Mitch Megaw
Calico! With the kitties!