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Tinners' Trail - Deluxe Add-Ons Box

Name: Tinners' Trail - Deluxe Add-Ons Box
Brand: Alley Cat Games
SKU: ACG038
Price: 20.95 CAD
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$20.95 CAD

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Contains the Arsenic and Emigration expansions.

Arsenic Expansion

The arsenic expansion adds the extra resource of arsenic. Due to the danger of arsenic, it is mined at the cost of PERMANENTLY losing work points but with the reward of a big cash payout.Emigration Expansion

In The Emigration expansion, you can send your workers overseas to gain ongoing benefits, such as extra income or free improvements.

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Good quality game, excellent re-playability

Build your zoo, participate in conservation projects, and save the species! The artwork is beautiful, the quality of the pieces is excellent. I would like a few more animals and a few less buildings, but that's a minor issue. The only downside is that the final scoring is a lot of math to fit onto the small scoring sheet they give you. I recommend making your own score sheet, or find one on boardgamegeek.

Fun with a group

great with a group of 5 - 8. It works with 9+, but there's just a bit of down time. Try having 2 fake artists in that case!

Wow quick game.

Can't stop playing. The dice bag building. Engine is addictive. Let's hope the second extension will be available soon.

Good and Puzzly Card Game

This game comes in a small box, wrapped in a paper wrapper. The publisher is ecologically minded.

For such a small deck of cards, it leads to an interesting filler game. The rules are reasonably simple, the fact that you don't use all the cards in every game can lead to variable experiences, and it doesn't overstay its welcome.

If you've played Forest Shuffle, there's going to be an obvious comparison here. The core game mechanics are pretty much the same: draw two cards from the table and/or the draw deck, or play a card by discarding X number of cards to the table. Where the games differ is in the constraints that Reforest puts on your tableau and the fact that animals play a minimal role. Reforest has an altitude and stacking format to the tableau, where you can overgrow taller plants over the shrubs, ferns, and herbs of the understory, and this takes place in a 6 space triangular layout rather than the free-form layout of Forest Shuffle.

I would say that the game length and restrictive layout give this game enough teeth to give a similar satisfying puzzle experience to what you might get from Forest Shuffle, and having both games in your collection can be considered more viable due to the sheer size of this game box.

Additionally, the artwork strikes a similar chord as that of Wingspan, where the art seems like the drawings of a sketchbook with a white background, and is very appealing to look at. However, they cram a lot of information on the cards, and you are meant to stack the cards in such a way as to see the bottom of each overlapped card, where small coloured symbols and an amount of points remains seen for scoring purposes. The writing in these sections can be very small, and it is difficult to see.

That being said, I would recommend this to anyone who likes card-game puzzles with a light ruleset that can scratch that puzzly itch without overstaying its welcome or taking up much space on the shelf.

Is That Canadian Water Bomber Here Yet?

An awesome game that doesn't get a lot of credit or the visibility it deserves. It's designed by a guy with plenty of experience in the industry and it shows. The fire behaves VERY realistically and that really makes the game. Components could be better but they are fine and par for what this game publisher generally produces. Over priced IMHO (components) but if you are part of the niche target audience (Hot Shots anyone?) that's fine. Recommended and check out Kerry's other stuff as well. Supporting Canadian game developers is good karma people. :)

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