多米诺王国

我们有幸在Board Game Arena上介绍过去几年最成功和最有趣的桌面游戏之一： 多米诺王国 ！

现在就玩吧！

多米诺王国是2016年由Bruno Cathala发布的板块放置游戏。 这款支持2至4名玩家的家庭策略游戏赢得了“Spiel Des Jahres” ——一个最具声望的桌面游戏大奖，并已成为经典的杰作。

在多米诺王国，您是有志于开疆扩土的国王 。 你必须探索所有类型的土地，包括麦田、湖泊和山脉，以找到最好的地块，并与其他领主竞争以将其纳入领土 。

您的目标是使用多米诺骨牌 （由2个地块组成的板块）构建5x5网格。 每次在您的王国放置多米诺骨牌时，板块的至少一侧必须连接到之前放置的板块或城堡。

放置板块后，您必须选择下一轮放置的板块。 但是，选定的板块也决定了下一个回合游戏顺序 ，因此本回合选择更好的板块通常意味着下回合在其他玩家之后放置并选择后续板块！

要获得最高分，你必须拥有尽可能多的带王冠的同类地形。 接壤的相同地块构成“区域”，每个区域得分为地块数乘以区域内可见的王冠数。 例如，一个4地块的森林区域，里面有2个王冠，得分为4x2 = 8分。

多米诺王国是一款适合所有玩家的精彩游戏。 我们强烈推荐二人游戏使用“The Mighty Duel”附加规则！ 通过这种配置，您将使用所有的多米诺骨牌来创建令人印象深刻的7x7王国 ，这可能非常棘手且具有策略性

多米诺王国是一个会员游戏 ：会员才能创建游戏桌，但每个人都可以加入 ！ 谢谢大家的支持！

Board Game Arena感谢Blue Orange和Bruno Cathala允许他们的优秀游戏在您喜欢的网站上线

好好享受吧！

We are incredibly proud and happy to introduce on Board Game Arena one of the most successful and fun board games of the last few years: Kingdomino!

Play it now!

Kingdomino is a tile placement game from Bruno Cathala released in 2016. This family strategy game for 2 to 4 players has won the "Spiel Des Jahres", the most prestigious award for a board game, and is already considered a classic and a masterpiece.

In Kingdomino, you are a King seeking new lands to expand your Kingdom. You must explore all types of land, including wheat fields, lakes, and mountains, in order to find the best plots to add to your realm, while competing with other lords to acquire them first.

Your goal is to build a 5x5 grid using dominoes (tiles made of 2 terrain sections). Each time you place a domino in your Kingdom, at least one side of the tile must be connected either to a tile previously played or to your castle.

After placing a tile, you must select the tile you'll play on the next turn. However, the selected tile also determines the next turn play order, so selecting a better tile this turn will often mean playing and choosing the following tile after other players on the next turn!

To achieve the best score, you must have as many matching terrains as possible, with a lot of crowns. The squares connected with the same type of terrain form a "territory", and each territory gives you a number of points equal to the number of squares multiplied by the number of crowns visible inside this territory. For example, a 4 squares forest territory with 2 crowns inside scores 4x2 = 8 points.

Kingdomino is a great game for all audiences. We highly recommend 2 players games with "The Mighty Duel" additional rule! With this configuration, you will use all the dominoes to create an impressive 7x7 Kingdom, which can be quite tricky and strategic

Kingdomino is available as a Premium game: a Premium member is required to create a new table, and then as usual everyone can join! Thank you all for supporting us!

Board Game Arena would like to thank Blue Orange and Bruno Cathala for allowing their great game to be available online on your favorite website

Enjoy!

神秘大地：景观，拍卖和地图！

今天我们很高兴地更新了Board Game Arena上最常玩的游戏之一。 神秘大地是一款精彩的游戏，自去年2月发布以来，你们中的一些人已经身经百战了 。 在BGA玩过50局以上的玩家接近2000人！ 所以我们非常乐意添加更多游戏元素以供探索和享受！

现在就玩吧！

那么有什么新的内容呢？ 下面是清单！

• 特殊景观扩展包现已推出！ 你可以在这里找到规则。
• 添加了两张新地图 。 修改后的基础地图是对原始游戏地图的更新，移动了一些地形以改变派系之间的平衡，而Lakes是一张新地图（由Jason Counihan设计），几周前Feuerland Spiele就已经说明了这一点：它真的很新 ，应该是除了最知情的玩家之外的所有人的完整发现！
• 起始VP 现在根据发布者设计的基于派系和地图的最新系统来调整。 对于想要了解它的好奇者，以下为对局范例： 基础游戏 ， 修改过的基础游戏 ， 湖泊 。
• 您现在可以通过竞价系统选择派系 。 这样，你就必须评估每个阵营相对于各个地图和其他派系的实力，以定下最佳出价。 真是个巨大的挑战！ 根据出版商的建议，BGA上的拍卖系统遵循BGG为盖亚计划提出的建议（ 此处为原始帖子）。

我们知道很多人总是想要更多 ，并会问“火与冰怎么样？” （是的，我们知道你会的 ）。 目前，BGA上暂时无法加入火与冰扩展。 我们当然希望将来有所进展（即便工程量并不小），但只有时间能证明！

来快乐地探索新的扩展和选项吧！

We are happy today to update one of the most played games on Board Game Arena. Terra Mystica is a wonderful game and since its release in February last year, some of you have really played it a lot. Almost 2000 players have played more than 50 games here on BGA! So we are really happy to add more game elements to discover and enjoy!

Play it now!

So what's new? Here is the list!

• The Special Landscapes expansion is now available! You can find the rules here.
• Two new maps have been added. Revised Base Map is an update to the original game map moving some terrains around to shift the balance between factions, and Lakes is a new map (designed by Jason Counihan) that has been illustrated by Feuerland Spiele just some weeks ago: it's really new and should be a complete discovery for all but the most well-informed players!
• The starting VPs are adjusted using the most up to date system devised by the publisher depending on the faction and the map. For the curious who want to know all about it, here are the tables: Base Game, Revised Base Game, Lakes.
• You can now select factions through an auction system. This way, you'll have to use your own evaluation of the strength of each faction relative to each map and other factions in play to make the best bid. That's quite a challenge! As suggested by the publisher, the auction system on BGA follows a proposal made on BGG for Gaia Project (original post here).

We know that a lot of you always want more, and will ask "What about Fire & Ice?" (yes, we know you will ). For now, it's not possible to have Fire & Ice on BGA. We sure hope that this may change in the future (even if it will be quite a lot of work to implement), but only time will tell!

Have fun discovering this new expansion and options!

米勒山谷的狼人

我们很高兴今天介绍米勒山谷的狼人，这是著名的Philippedes Pallières和Hervé Marly（ Lui-Même ）开发的社交游戏。

狼人是世界上最流行的游戏之一：它易上手、轻量级，因此风靡全球，甚至非桌游爱好者也有所耳闻。

在狼人游戏中，每个玩家都有一个秘密角色 ：一些玩家是好村民，但有些玩家是狼人 。 每天晚上，狼人都会杀死一个村民；每天早上，村民都投票决定处死其中一个人——或许是狼人。 一方全灭，另一方就获胜。

狼人是一种其貌不扬的游戏。 推理演绎、虚张声势和策略选取都很重要。 为了使在线版本更具“战略性”，我们选择立即推出Village扩展 。 通过这个扩展，除了表面角色之外，每个村民还有一个秘密身份 （例如：教师）。 它从游戏开始就引入了一些不对称性，并为你提供了更多有趣的可能性。 如果你发现基础游戏太简单，我们建议你尝试一下

把一个基于讨论的游戏改造为在线版并非易事。 然而，我们挑战了它，并尽力保持原始游戏的精神。 我们专门为这个游戏的BGA界面做了调整，与才华横溢的平面设计师一起创造了你可以在该版本中看到的美丽村庄（感谢MaëvaKosmic ， Christine Deschamps和Ian Parovel ）。 希望你会喜欢它！

Werewolves是BGA上的会员游戏：只有会员可以创建游戏，但所有人都可以加入。

Board Game Arena想要感谢Lui-Même让这精彩的游戏得以上线

好好享受吧！

We are happy to introduce today The Werewolves of Millers Hollow the very famous social game from Philippe des Pallières and Hervé Marly (Lui-Même).

Werewolves is one of the most played game in the world: because it is very accessible and lightweight, you can find it everywhere, and even non-regular gamers know it already.

During a Werewolves game, each player has a secret role: some players are nice villagers, but some are Werewolves. Each night, the Werewolves are killing a villagers, and each day, the villagers are voting to execute one of them - if possible, a werewolf. To win as a villager, you must eliminate all Werewolves, and to win as a Werewolves you need to eliminate all villagers.

Werewolves is a game that is way deeper than it looks like. Deduction and bluff is important, but also strategy. To make the online adaptation even more "strategic", we chose to make immediately available the Village expansion. With this expansion, each villager has a visible role (ex: Teacher) in addition to his/her secret role. It introduces some asymmetry from the beginning of the game, and give you additional interesting possibilities. If you find the base game too simple, we recommend you to try it

Adapting a game primarily based on discussion was not an easy things to do. However, we took it as a challenge, and did our best to keep the spirit of the original game. We did special adaptations to the BGA interface just for this game, and we worked with talented graphic designers to create the beautiful village you can see in the adaptation (thank you Maëva Kosmic, Christine Deschamps and Ian Parovel for this). We hope you'll enjoy it!

Werewolves is available as a Premium game on BGA: only Premium members can create new tables, and everyone (even non-Premiums) can join.

Board Game Arena would like to thanks Lui-Même for making possible to have this great game here

Enjoy!

历史巨轮：文明新篇章

我们很高兴今天推出升级版的历史巨轮 ，这是Vlaada Chvátil开发的著名文明游戏。

TTA被认为是有史以来最好的策略游戏之一。 早在5年前它就在BGA上架，这是值得自傲的成就；玩家们已经充分享受了初始版本，到目前为止玩了超过500,000场游戏 （谢谢你们！）。

2015年，游戏发行商CGE发布了游戏的修订版：“历史巨轮：文明新篇章”，带来新的美工和规则变化。 每个人都知道改进现有的“畅销”游戏有多难... 但它取得了令人难以置信的成功：游戏的修订版被一致认为青出于蓝 ，而这个新版本现在在BoardGameGeek所有类别游戏中排名第三 。

对于那些已经了解TTA的人，你不应该对新游戏规则感到陌生，并且 应该能够马上游戏 。 但是，我们建议您阅读规则手册 “新故事的新内容 ”中最后一部分，其中总结了所有更改。

对于那些不了解游戏的人：TTA是一个文明类游戏 ，顺便提一下它与Sid Meier的《文明》可视游戏有一些相似之处。 在游戏的4个时代（从古代到现代），你必须通过技术、军事单位和建筑物的有效组合来获得尽可能多的文化点 （小“竖琴”符号）。 你必须应对来自其他玩家的各种事件和攻击。 你必须仔细选择你的领导者，并从最初的古老“专制主义”过渡到最现代的政治制度，以改进你的政府。

BGA非常感谢CGE给我们提供新版TTA！

好好享受吧

We are happy to introduce today the upgraded version of Though the Ages, the well known civilization game from Vlaada Chvátil, for online play on Board Game Arena.

"TTA" is considered one of the best strategy games of all time. We are particularly proud about hosting it here on BGA for 5 years now, and that players have been enjoying this adaptation so much, with more than 500.000 games played until now (thank you for this!).

In 2015, the game publisher CGE published a revised version of the game: "Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization", with new art and rule changes. Everyone knows how hard it is to upgrade an existing "best selling" game... But it has been an incredible success: the revised version of the game is unanimously considered better than the original game, and this new edition is now ranked as the 3rd best game in all categories on BoardGameGeek.

For those who already know TTA, you should not be surprised by the new game rules and should be able to play it immediately. However, we recommend you to read the very last part of the rule book "What's new in the New Story" that summarize all the changes.

For those who do not know about the game: TTA is a civilization game, which by the way holds some similarities with Sid Meier's Civilization videogame. During the 4 ages of the game (from Antiquity to Modern Age), you must earn a maximum number of Culture points (little "harp" symbols) by setting up an efficient combination of technologies, military units and buildings. You have to face various events and attacks from the other players. You have to choose your leaders carefully, and to improve your government from the initial archaic "Despotism" to the most modern political systems.

BGA would like to thank CGE for giving us this possibility to offer the new version of TTA here!

Enjoy

寂静迷航

你和探险队的其他成员刚刚抵达神秘的星球Artemia...... 但问题是...... 你总感觉有双眼睛在背后盯着你 。 要当心！

今天我们很高兴地推出Ghislain Masson （ Geek Attitude Games ）的游戏寂静迷航 以提供在线游玩

寂静迷航是一个不对称的游戏：除一人之外的所有玩家都是“ 被狩猎的 ”探险家，他们需要与这个扮演“ 异星生物 ”的玩家斗智斗勇。 这个谜之生物的目标似乎是在探险家们获得救援前同化他们...... 在这个游戏中，作为被狩猎的探险家，你们的目标是齐心协力，使“救援”计数器在“同化”计数器之前达到胜利点。

听好了，被狩猎的玩家之间需要沟通才能良好合作...... 但你猜怎么着？ 这个生物会窃听

在每个回合开始时，探险家们通过面朝下放置卡牌以选择一个区域进行探索 。 然后，异星生物必须放置“ 狩猎标记 ”（标记的数量取决于可用的力量）。 当然，狩猎者试图锁定探险家选择的地方。 设法避开狩猎者的玩家可以利用他们占据的地方的力量，从而拖延到救援到来。 相反，那些被同化的人只能为虎作伥......

随着游戏进行，探险家的生机日渐渺茫，双方的特殊能力也越来越多。 探险家可以发现新的区域 ，并且双方都可以使用特殊卡牌以触发强大的即时效果。

要了解完整的规则，我们推荐这个6分钟的“观看游戏”视频：



寂静迷航是一款具有非常特别的氛围和强势主题的游戏。 这是一个真正的“ 恐怖桌游 ”：紧张感将在桌边缭绕不绝，直到游戏结束。 许多“合作类游戏”可能感觉有点机械，因为你正在“与游戏较量”，然而在寂静迷航中，狩猎者由玩家扮演， 这使得每局游戏都是一次新体验 。 在BGA，我们强烈建议与4-5名玩家一起游戏，以充分享受游戏的合作性质。 我们也建议你两边都试试，因为它们截然不同。

BGA非常感谢Geek Attitude Games允许我们将这款非同寻常的游戏带到线上。 我们希望你能像我们一样享受它！

下次当你独处时，记得问问自己：你真的确定自己是孤身一人吗？

You and the other members of your expedition just arrived on the mysterious planet Artemia... But the thing is... You are Not Alone. And you should definitely worry about that!

We are happy to introduce today Not Alone, a game from Ghislain Masson (Geek Attitude Games), for online play on BGA

Not Alone is an asymmetrical game: all players but one are "Hunted" explorers who are playing together against the last player who is "the Creature". No one seems to know much about this Creature, but it looks like its main objective is to assimilate the Hunted before they are rescued... In this game, as a hunted player your objective will be to collaborate to make sure that the "rescue" counter reaches the victory space BEFORE the "assimilation" counter reaches this same victory space. And the objective of the player acting out the Creature will obviously be the exact opposite

We apprise you that a good collaboration between the hunted players requires communication... But guess what? The Creature will be listening

At the beginning of each turn, the hunted players choose a place to explore by playing a card face down. Then, the Creature must place one "hunt token" (or several, depending on the available powers). Of course, the Creature attempts to target the places chosen by the hunted players. The players who manage to avoid the Creature will be able to use the power of the places they occupy, thus contributing to their future rescue. On the contrary, those who are caught by the Creature will only contribute to the assimilation of the whole group...

While the game is progressing, there are fewer possibilities for hunted players to escape and more and more special powers on both sides. New places are discovered by hunted players, and special cards can be used on both sides to trigger powerful instant effects.

To learn the complete rules, we recommend this excellent "Watch it played" video:



Not Alone is a game with a very special atmosphere and a powerful theme. This is a true "horror board game": there is a lot of tension around the table until the very end of the game. A lot of "cooperative games" can feel a little mechanical because you are playing "against the game", however in "Not Alone" the Creature is a player and this makes each new game unique. On BGA we strongly recommend to play with 4-5 players to fullly enjoy the cooperative aspect of the game. We also recommend you to play both sides since they are very different.

BGA would like to thank Geek Attitude Games for allowing us to propose this extraordinary game online. We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do!

And the next time you feel alone, remember to ask you this question: are really sure you are?

与BGA一起前往星辰大海！

我们最近收到了来自NASA的加拿大航天员 David Saint-Jacques 的一封创意十足又意义非凡的电子邮件，他目前正在国际空间站执行任务。

David 是个桌游重度粉丝，经常在 BGA 上玩游戏。 他通常在这里玩斋浦尔、卡卡颂，有时还会玩波多黎各。 非同寻常之处在于，他也直接从空间站上联机玩游戏！

信不信由你，国际空间站的航天员也可以上网。 虽然网速慢，但好歹能用，至少玩BGA绰绰有余！ David 在他少有的一次空闲时间里玩了一场游戏，这可能让他成为了首位在太空玩 BGA 的人，同时也可能是第一个在太空玩桌游的人。 这是人类的一小步，却是米宝的一大步！

但 David 还带来更多消息：似乎美国国家航空航天局正在为航天员寻找新的活动，以刺激他们的大脑，同时改善组员之间的气氛。 桌游当然是他们的首选.... 只不过没有重力，摆弄板块、卡片和骰子是个大麻烦... 这就是美国国家航空航天局考虑在长期航天任务中「正式」使用在线桌游平台的原因。

接下来，在今年年底之前，我们将在 BGA 上组织一场大型比赛，为未来的「桌游教练」（总署是这么说的）职位挑选十几个候选人。 这是你梦想中的工作：为航天员组织桌游训练—当然是在地球上—但为何未来某一天不能在太空上呢？ 准备发射!

更新 4月2日：愚人节快乐！ 谢谢大家的好评

We recently received a very original and special email from David Saint-Jacques, a Canadian astronaut from NASA, currently on mission in the International Space Station.

David is a board game addict, and plays from time to time on BGA. He usually plays here Jaipur, Carcassonne and sometimes Puerto Rico. The extraordinary fact is that he also plays online directly from orbit!

Believe it or not, but the astronauts in the ISS have an Internet connexion available. It is slow, but it is functional, and apparently it is good enough to play on BGA! During one of his (few) free time slot, David played a game and probably became the first person to ever play on BGA from Space, and maybe the first person to ever play board games from Space. It's a small step for (a) man, but a giant leap for a Meeple!

But David's message is going way further: it seems that NASA is looking for new activities for astronauts, in order to stimulate their cerebral capacities while improving the ambience between teammates. Board games is of course their first choice ... except that without gravity this is really hard to manipulate boards, cards and dice... This is why NASA is thinking about using online boardgaming platform "officially" during its long-term missions.

Following this, before the end of this year, we are going to organize on BGA a big contest to select a dozen of candidates for a future job of "Board games instructor" (these are the words from the Agency). The Job Of Your Dreams: you will organise board game sessions for the astronaut crews - on Earth of course, but why not in Space at some point in the future?

Get ready to launch!

UPDATE April 2nd: April's fool! Thank you everyone for your nice comments

关于翻译系统的一些消息!

BGA几乎从一开始就采用合作翻译系统, 让全世界尽可能多的人在没有语言障碍的情况下一起游戏。 我们为此感到相当高兴和自豪, 但当然这并不完美。

随着 150多种游戏的进行--以及 35种语言的翻译--我们试图看看我们能解决什么或做得更好。

1)在这么多的翻译词条之下,改正错误的已验证翻译变得乏味。 由我们手动修正玩家在论坛报告的翻译错误进度缓慢又十分耗时。 所以我们决定给社区更多的信任, 如果玩家在 BGA 和游戏上有足够的经验, 就允许他们直接修正已验证的词条。 请注意, 修正已验证的翻译不会被授予任何礼品积分, 并且应该只纠正清楚而明显的错误。 没有十分的把握最好不要轻易改动, 并在改动时尽可能地保持与原来的英文文本一致的意义和风格。

2)对于某些缺乏翻译人员的语种 , 我们尝试简化操作。我们认为, 由翻译者校对并修正词条比自己全部翻译更快捷。 因此, 在可能的情况下 (这意味着没有替换参数使文本保持动态), 我们将在默认情况下给出机器翻译, 然后翻译人员能够进行更改以改进它, 或只是点击确认翻译。 这些默认翻译将在未来几周内逐步推出, 而这种新功能会允许我们以后以更多的语言打开网站, 尽管这些语种缺乏翻译者；也许这会激发玩家对这些语言的兴趣。

让我们明确一点, 这绝对不是为了取代目前基于社区的翻译系统! 我们的确需要翻译人员的帮助来翻译动态字符串和校对翻译, 使它们达到"人工翻译" 水平,从而创造流畅自然的游戏体验。

3)即使动机纯正, 翻译人员也有可能对英文原文进行错误修改。 而这确实是一个麻烦, 因为这些错误会传播到所有的语言..。 因此, 对于英语, 我们决定设置一个验证步骤以避免错误。 如果您在网站的英文版本或当前正在翻译的英文文本中发现不正确的内容, 您可以在 "从英文到英文" 中查找该文本, 并提出更改(请附上注释!)。 然后, BGA 团队将确认 (或拒绝) 此更改。

4)由于我们没有考虑设置有关标点符号的特定准则, 因此一些翻译人员随意地添加或删除句尾的标点符号, 例如在按钮文本中添加句号 (唉! ). 我们同样认为, 要回到开发者通过标点符号和清晰的界面表达的意图(网站不是一本书)。 现在, 如果更改了句尾的标点符号, 我们也会触发警告: 翻译人员报告了一些合法的情况, 所以仍然可以这么做, 但请小心, 这应该只作为个例!

再次感谢来自社区的所有翻译人员牺牲时间, 让来自世界各地的玩家以母语享受BGA! 真的 太棒啦!!

The collaborative translation system has been with BGA almost from the start to allow as many people as possible throughout the world to play together with no language barrier. We are quite happy and proud about it, but of course it's not perfect.

With more than 150 games - and translations happening in 35 languages - we tried to see what we could fix or do better.

1) With so many translations, fixing mistakes in validated translations has become tedious. Doing it manually when reported by players in the forums was slow and time consuming. So we decided to trust the community some more, and to allow players to fix validated strings directly if they have enough experience on BGA and on the game. Please be aware that fixing validated translations doesn't award any gift points, and should be done only to correct clear and obvious mistakes. It's best not to make changes you are not sure of, and always stay as close as possible to the original English text in meaning and style.

2) For some languages there is not a lot of translators and we wanted to try to make things easier, so we thought that it would be faster for translators to proofread and correct than to translate everything. So when possible (which means when there is no substitution parameter involved making the text dynamic), we will now propose a computer generated translation by default, and then translators will be able to either make changes to improve it as usual, or just to confirm it in one click if it's already good! These default translations will appear progressively in the weeks to come, and this new functionnality should allow us in the future to open the website in more languages for which we don't currently have enough players to bootstrap a translation, and maybe spark interest for players in these languages.

Let's be clear, this is absolutely not meant to replace the current community based translation system! We really need the translators help in translating dynamic strings and in proofreading the translations to have them meet the "human quality" level that creates a smooth and natural play experience.

3) Even with good intentions, some mistakes were made by translators making changes to the original English text. And that was really a bummer, because mistakes propagate to all languages afterwards... So for English, we decided to set up a validation step to avoid mistakes. If you spot something incorrect in the English version of the website or in an English text you are currently translating, you can look for that text in the "from English to English" translation system, and propose a change (with a comment!). This change will then be validated (or refused) by the BGA team.

4) Since we didn't think about setting up specific guidelines about punctuation, some translators added or removed final punctuation a little anarchically over the years, for example adding an ending dot for text used in buttons (Yikes! ). We homogenized that to get back to the intention of the developer in terms of meaning expressed through punctuation and clarity of the interface (a website is not a book). Now we also trigger a warning if the final punctuation is changed: translators reported some cases where it can be legitimate, so it can still be done, but please be careful with this, it should stay exceptional!

Thanks again to all translators from the community contributing their time to allow players from all over the world to enjoy playing board games in their native language!

Really. That's awesome!

行动方向

我们很高兴本月出版了一个抽象类游戏的经典作品:由Claude Soucie开发的行动方向, 它早在1969年就被Sid Sackson撰写的《A Gamut of Games》介绍给游戏界，在BGA登陆却用了整整50年!

现在就玩吧!

你喜欢抽象游戏吗？ 不管你喜不喜欢，反正我们很喜欢! 这是一个机制简单优雅的游戏类别, 规则浅显,但深不可测, 喜欢研究游戏策略的玩家必定有所斩获。

行动方向就是其中之一,它的游戏配件极其简单，几乎每个人都可以凑出一套（一个棋盘和2种颜色的24颗棋子），并因其上手简单且乐趣无穷而在玩家间口口相传。

玩家在其回合按照以下规则移动一颗自己的棋子:

• ~横向、纵向或对角线
• ~ 移动步数恰好等于该方向上的棋子数（不分敌我）
• ~ 可以跳过自己的棋子，但不能跳过对方的
• ~ 可以跳到对方棋子上而吃掉它

游戏的目标不是吃掉对方的所有棋子, 而是设法将你的所有棋子连接在一起（一半从棋盘一侧开场，另一半从另一侧），无论横向、纵向或对角线。

玩过Alveole 集结棋的人会注意到相似之处..。 这是当然的！ 事实上, Alveole 是行动方向的六角形重制版。 行动方向是这类游戏的开山鼻祖, 而你现在可以玩了! 好好享受吧！

We are happy to publish this month a nice classic of the abstracts category: Lines of Action from Claude Soucie, introduced to the gaming public by Sid Sackson's book "A Gamut of Games" in 1969 is now available on Board Game Arena 50 years later!

Play it now!

Do you like abstracts? We do! It's a beautiful game category with simple and elegant mechanics, easy to explain but holding great depth that is really rewarding for the players willing to study the game strategies.

Lines of Action is one of these games that has a really simple set of material that almost everyone has or can quickly set up from scratch (a chessboard and 24 pieces in 2 colors), and that spreads just by word of mouth from one game night to another as they are just so simple to teach and so nice to play.

On their turn, players move a piece of their color:

• ~ horizontally, vertically or diagonally
• ~ from exactly as many spaces as there are pieces (friendly or enemy) on the line chosen to move
• ~ with the possibility of jumping over friendly pieces, but not over enemy pieces
• ~ and a piece can land on an enemy piece to capture it.

The goal of the game is not to capture all enemy pieces, but to manage to connect all of your pieces together horizontally, vertically or diagonally, while half start on one side of the board, and half on the other side.

Those of you who played Alveole will notice similarities... of course! Indeed Alveole is a reimplementation of Lines of Action on an hexagonal board. Other games have been derived from it, but Lines of Action is the original game, and now you can play it!

Enjoy!

需要您的意见!

除了添加新的游戏, 如果我们需要在BGA上增加或修改一样东西, 那应该是什么呢？

请使用Facebook, 在评论中发布您的提议，或为评论中的提议投票。

最受欢迎的提议将被研究并分析, 以确认它们是否可以添加到 BGA 中。



注: 我们对没有Facebook的玩家表示歉意。 对我们来说，用Facebook收集反馈更加方便。 如果这次成功了，我们下次也许会试试其他方法。

Apart from new games, if we should add or modify ONE thing on Board Game Arena, which one should it be?

Using Facebook, please post your proposition in the comments and/or VOTE on existing propositions by LIKING corresponding comments.

The MOST-LIKED propositions will be studied & analyzed to check if they can be added to BGA.

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Note: sorry for those who do not have a Facebook account. This is way more easy for us to use Facebook to collect such a feedback. If this is a success, we may do differently the next time.

花朵

我们今天很高兴为抽象游戏爱好者发布一个很棒的游戏! 由Nick Bentley自行出版的游戏 花朵 已在BGA上架。

现在就玩吧!

在花朵中, 你会尝试捕捉对手的棋子。 第一个捕捉超过一定数量棋子的玩家 (该数量取决于棋盘大小和所需的比赛时间) 将获得胜利。

花朵有一套简短、直接的规则:

• ~ 每个玩家都有两种棋子颜色。
• ~ "花朵" 是一组同色的相连棋子。
• ~ 第一个玩家在棋盘上任意地方摆放第一颗棋子, 然后玩家交替进行回合。
• ~ 在一个回合中, 玩家必须在一个空位上摆放一颗棋子, 然后可以放置一颗他拥有的其他颜色的棋子或选择结束回合。
• ~ 在玩家回合结束时, 如果对手的花朵被围起来(不能向任何方向延伸),那么它就会被捕捉到。

仅此而已, 你已经学会规则了! 很容易吧？ 是的, 但是…… 在这些看似简单的规则背后, 你会发现很多深度策略。 每个人都可以很快上手, 但每一个回合有许多的可能性, 这肯定会让你的大脑频繁换挡! 这个游戏给人的感觉有点像Go with colors. 我们建议您先尝试最小的主板, 以便在进入更大的挑战之前掌握它!

我们要感谢设计师Nick Bently(el poopo) 提供了BGA版本的游戏许可, 并感谢开发者Adam Novotny(A-dam), 这是他用BGA 工作室制作的第三个游戏.

如果你喜欢这个游戏和它的 "禅园" 美学, 你可能会对盒装版本感兴趣。 设计师实际上在考虑启动一个kickstarter 项目来制作盒装版本, 有意向者可以在这里注册以获取最新资讯! 好好享受吧！

We are happy today to release a great game for abstracts lovers! Blooms, a self-published game from Nick Bentley, is now available on Board Game Arena.

Play it now!

In Blooms, you'll try to capture the stones of your opponent. The first player to capture more than a certain amount (depending on the board size and/or desired duration of play) will claim the victory.

Blooms has a short, elegant and straightforward set of rules:

• ~ Each player owns two stone colors.
• ~ A "bloom" is a group of connected stones of the same color.
• ~ The first player sets a first stone anywhere on the board, then players alternate turns.
• ~ On a turn, the player must set a stone on a free space, then may place a stone of the other color he/she owns or pass.
• ~ At the end of a player turn, if an opponent's bloom is fenced (cannot extend in any direction) then it is captured.

That's all, you know the rules! Easy? Yes but... behind these deceptively simple rules you'll find a lot of depth. Everyone can learn the game and start to play really quickly, but each turns allows for a huge number of possible moves that will quite certainly get your brain to switch gears! The feeling of this game is a little like Go with colors. We advise you to try it first with the smallest board to get a grasp of it before moving on to a bigger challenge!

We would like to thank the designer Nick Bently (El Poopo) for proposing his game for an online version here on BGA, and the developer Adam Novotny (A-dam) who implemented it as his third game adaptation using BGA Studio.

If you love this game and its "Zen Garden" aesthetics, you might be interested in a boxed version. The designer is actually thinking of setting up a Kickstarter campaign to produce one, so if you want to show your interest and be notified when this happens, you can sign up here for news!

Enjoy!