More and more often, you are in for a treat...or two on Board Game Arena!
Let me tell you about Flowers: A mandala game.
In this game, your goal is to collect flower tiles by achieving majorities through clever card play. Skillfully build mandalas to claim the best tiles, combining and multiplying them to create exquisite flowers of your own!
Each player starts with a hand of cards, with the cards coming in six colors that match the flower tile colors.
On a turn, a player lays down one or more cards of the same color onto one of the flowers. If that color is already present in the mandala, the player then flips the card(s) face down; if not, the player leaves them face up. If the player laid down one card, they draw two cards from the deck; if they played two or more, they do not draw any cards.
After playing, if you have at least one face-up card on a flower and more cards than any other player, take that flower's "claim" token and place it on your cards. Then, if that flower now has all six colors face up around it, destroy the mandala.
Whoever has the claim token on their cards places one of the flower tiles from this mandala in front of themselves; if they already have a flower tile of the same color, they flip this "complete" flower face down. Whoever has the second most cards on this mandala takes the second flower tile. Anyone who took a flower tile discards all of their played cards on this mandala; everyone else returns their played cards to their hand. Draw a black tile and white tile from the stack to create a new mandala.
Continue play until someone completes their third flower, then everyone scores their points. Each separate flower half is worth as many points as the number of flowers on it. For each complete flower, if one of the tiles is 3x, triple the number of flowers on the other tile; if both tiles have flowers, double the number of flowers on the tile with fewer flowers. Whoever has the most points wins.
Simple, elegant. And you can play it now with 2 to 4 players, right from your browser, by clicking below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=flowersmandalagame
Let us send some love to the Lookout Games team for this nice addition to the platform. All of our thanks also goes to the game designers Trevor Benjamin and Brett J. Gilbert, and of course, to the developer, Firgon, who did an amazing job porting it to BGA.
And that's not all...
Let us welcome the all-new expansion added to Catan: Cities and Knights!
Expand Catan with a more complex commodity market and knights to defend your cities.
The game changes the base game in three main ways:
First, there are 3 new commodities in the game, distinct from resources- paper, cloth, and coins, which can be acquired from Forest, Meadow, and Mountain spaces, respectively. Cities that would normally produce two of one of those resources instead produce 1 resource and 1 of the corresponding commodity. (To make commodities easier to obtain, each player starts the game with 1 city and 1 settlement on the board.) These commodities allow players to build city improvements that confer various advantages and eventually points.
Second, the deck of development cards is replaced by three different decks, each corresponding to one of the commodities. Building city improvements gives players a chance to draw these cards with every roll of the dice. Building more improvements will increase these chances, but cards cannot be bought directly in any way. These cards are similar to the development cards in the base game, but with a wider range of effects. (Some cards are balanced better as well- the new Resource Monopoly card, for example, can take no more than 2 of the named resource from any one player.)
Finally, players can also build knights on the island along their network of roads. These knights can be used to claim certain intersections and move the Robber (taking the place of Soldier cards), but are also used to defend the island from periodic barbarian attacks. If the island is successfully defended, the player(s) with the most knights are rewarded. If not, the player(s) with the fewest knights each have a city downgraded to a settlement.
You can play it by activating the expansion from your game settings before playing, right from the game page.
Let us thank the Catan team, and the work done by dahrf to bring it to Board Game Arena!
That's it for today. ;)
Let's dive into these releases and until next week...
Take care and play fair!
鲜花：曼陀罗游戏和卡坦岛更新！
越来越频繁地，您可以在Board Game Arena上享受一两次乐趣！
让我来告诉你关于 Flowers：一款曼陀罗游戏。
在这个游戏中，你的目标是通过巧妙地打牌来收集最多数量的花朵牌。巧妙地建造曼陀罗来获得最好的牌，将它们组合增加来创造你自己的精美花朵！
每个玩家开始时手上都有一手牌，牌的颜色有六种，与花牌的颜色相匹配。
每轮，玩家将一张或多张相同颜色的牌放在一朵花上。如果曼陀罗中已有该颜色，则玩家将牌面朝下翻转；如果没有，则玩家将牌面朝上。如果玩家放下一张牌，则从牌堆中抽两张牌；如果放下两张或更多，则不抽任何牌。
出牌后，如果您在一朵花上至少有一张面朝上的牌，并且牌数比其他玩家多，则拿走那朵花的“所有权”标记并将其放在您的牌上。然后，如果那朵花周围现在有六种颜色面朝上，则摧毁曼陀罗。
卡片上有所有权标记的玩家可以从该曼荼罗中拿出一张花牌放在自己面前；如果他们已经有了相同颜色的花牌，则将这朵“完整”的花牌面朝下翻转。该曼荼罗上卡片数量第二多的玩家将获得第二张花牌。获得花牌的玩家将丢弃该曼荼罗上的所有打出的牌；其他人将打出的牌放回手中。从牌堆中抽出一张黑色牌和一张白色牌来创建新的曼荼罗。
继续出牌，直到有人完成第三朵花，然后每个人都得分。每一朵独立的花的分数与其上的花数相同。对于每一朵完整的花，如果其中一块砖是 3x，则将花中其他砖上的数字三倍计分；如果两块砖都有花，则将花较少的那块砖的数字翻倍。得分最高的人获胜。
简单、优雅。现在您可以直接通过浏览器与 2 到 4 名玩家一起玩，只需点击以下内容：
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=flowersmandalagame
让我们向 Lookout Games 团队表达我们的敬意，感谢他们为平台添加了这款出色的游戏。我们还要感谢游戏设计师 Trevor Benjamin 和 Brett J. Gilbert，当然还有开发者 Firgon，他出色地将游戏移植到了 BGA平台。
这还不是全部内容...
让我们欢迎加入卡坦：城市与骑士的全新内容！
扩大卡坦岛，让它拥有更丰富的商品市场和骑士来保卫您的城市。
该游戏主要通过三种方式改变原基础游戏：
首先，游戏中有 3 种新商品，与资源不同——纸张、布料和硬币，分别可从森林、草地和山地空间获得。通常生产两种资源的城市改为生产 1 种资源和 1 种相应的商品。（为了使商品更容易获得，每个玩家在游戏开始时在棋盘上都有 1 个城市和 1 个定居点。）这些商品允许玩家建造城市和改进设施，从而带来各种优势并最终获得积分。
其次，开发卡牌组被三副不同的卡牌组所取代，每副卡牌对应一种商品。建造城市改进设施让玩家有机会在每次掷骰子时抽到这些卡牌。建造更多改进设施将增加这些机会，但卡牌不能以任何方式直接购买。这些卡牌类似于基础游戏中的发展卡牌，但效果范围更广。（有些卡牌的平衡性也更好 - 例如，新的资源垄断卡牌可以从任何一个玩家那里拿走不超过 2 个指定资源。）
最后，玩家还可以沿着岛上的道路网络建造骑士。这些骑士可以用来占领某些交叉路口并移动强盗（代替士兵卡），但也可以用来保卫岛屿免受野蛮人的定期袭击。如果成功保卫了岛屿，拥有最多骑士的玩家将获得奖励。如果没有，拥有最少骑士的玩家将把各自拥有的一座城市降级为定居点。
您可以在玩游戏之前直接从游戏页面通过游戏设置激活扩展包来玩此游戏。
让我们感谢Catan 团队，以及dahrf为将它带到Board Game Arena所做的工作！
以上就是今天的全部内容。;)
让我们深入了解这些内容，直到下周...
保持小心并公平竞争！
