Johanitsu

Each player has a farm board of 3×5 squares,representing the land you own. It’s here you expand your house, plow your fields and fence your pastures. The design is up to you, the 15 squares (minus the 2 representing your starting house) are at your disposal.

The main game board is little less than a collection of “action fields” representing turn actions like “plow a field”, “expand your house”, “sow your fields”, “collect wood”, “go fishing”, “collect sheep”and much more. Some of these action fields get “loaded” with stuff each turn, like the “collect wood” field gets loaded with 3 wood each turn (if no one wants to collect wood one turn, it’ll have 6 wood next turn and so on), and some are simply “you get 1 each time you go here”, like the “take 1 grain” action.

You start off with 2 family members (man and wife), so in the beginning you get to do twice each turn. The catch is, each action can only be taken once per turn. So if your opponent decided to sow his fields on his go, your plow gets magically unusable.

The goal is to build a good farm in a set number of turns. You get points for basically everything you’ve done, the size of your house and family, the number of plowed fields, the amount of grain and vegetables, the number of pastures, the amount of animals you have… and you get a minus point for each piece of land you haven’t used up and each thing you have nothing of. For example, if you have no sheep, you get -1 points. And if you have no cattle, you get another -1. All of these things are valued differently, so scoring at the end is a little tongue-in-cheek, but that’s not only bad. You can also get points if you’ve built something nice, like a cooking hearth. The only thing you don’t get points for are surplus raw materials (like wood and clay), although you can during the game build things like “table-carpentry” or “basket maker” which will give you points for surplus wood and straw, respectively.

So, the game is basically a race for the raw materials to expand your farm. You want a bigger family, you first have to expand your house. To expand your house, you need wood and straw. If the other farmers took it, you need another plan. Plow a field to later sow it and gain tons of grain? Or build some fences so you can house all those animals?

Battlestar Galactica:Exodus is the second expansion for the Battlestar Galactica board game.It covers the period after New Caprica.
BGE includes new characters: one for each of the four human roles,no new cylon characters(see BG:pegasus for that matter)
There are some new strength skill cards(0-6)and also introduces new destination, quorum and crisis cards, which are included into the existing deck.Beyond these additions, there are three modular options in the expansion.
Battlestar Galactica: Exodus is an excellent and thematic expansion that brings a lot of modular options to the game.
ps easy to learn 5 stars because is an expansion,nothing gamebreaking to rules.

Players are given starting resources and building cards as well as a few workers each as the gnome and resource markets and the board are set up.
Each round has three phases where the players will 1) place their workers, 2) take any resources their workers are collecting, earn income and pay taxes then 3) remove any remaining workers and take any necessary actions.
The action phase is where the majority of the game is played with players gaining extra workers and resources, building their building cards, buying gnomes, taking additional building cards etc.
Each time a building is built a player gets to place one of their house tokens on that building’s symbol in one of the five identical districts.
Scoring takes place 3 times throughout the game with players scoring majority and minority house/district control as well as for the number of accumulated workers and the player with the highest score at the end of the game wins.

Jaipur’s production values are nice enough to be a selling point.The cards are divided into camels and 6 suits of goods (diamonds, gold, silver, cloth, spice, and leather)this suit is the only attribute on each card, and there are differing numbers of cards in each suit.Cards are added to and taken from a row of 5 face-up cards, which always begins the round with at least 3 camels. Each player starts with a hand of 5 cards.
There are sets of goods tokens for each of the 6 goods represented on the cards, the number of tokens varying proportionally with the number of cards in each corresponding suit. Each set of tokens has a different range of rupee values (1-4, 5-7, all 5, etc), and these are arranged from highest value to lowest value. There are also stacks of bonus tokens, awarded for selling 3, 4 or 5+ cards. Each of these stacks is shuffled. There is one camel bonus token. There are 3 “richer trader” tokens, used to mark the number of rounds won by a player.The bonus tokens can be quite valuable, making it a considerable sacrifice to small sets quickly.

Economical,financial brains gonna love this game..any other game is different to its previous