shinjuku

Playtest #3

Tue 21 Aug 2018

Participants: self, AdrianK

Overview

• Testing:
  • Fewer shops/dept stores per player
  • Different number of citizens for each resource

Components

• 18”x20” board with Map of Tokyo
• 54 cards: 48 Ward cards + 6 wild cards
• Poker chips for money
• 15 stores per player (3 of each type)
• 15 track per player
• 2 dept stores per player
• 40 citizen tokens:
  • 10 ◯, 9 ⤫, 8 △, 7 ▢, 6 ⭒

Rules

Setup

• Deal 3 cards to each player
• Start with 25yen each

Turns

At start of turn, randomly place a citizen on the map. Draw a card to determine the location.

Each turn choose an action:

• Pay 10yen + card, build a store in that ward or next to any of your track
  • Stores can be built on top of other players stores
• Pay 10yen + card, upgrade an existing store
• Pay 2yen + card to build 1 track that expands from shop or your track

After taking your action, you may optionally resolve the customers in a single ward. You must be able to match all customers in that ward with a shop.

At end of turn, draw 1 card

Final turn

When last customer is placed, everyone takes one additional turn.

Player actions

Upgrading stores

Cost 10yen for each upgrade: 1-store -> 2-store -> 3-store -> dept store

• 1-store can satisfy 1 customer of that type
• 2-store can satisfy 2 customer of that type
• 3-store can satisfy 3 customer of that type
• dept store can satisfy 2 customers of any type, except for the type of the 3-store that it was upgraded from.

Resolving customers

When resolving customers:

• Each segment of track used pays the owner of that segment 1yen.
• Each station with a store that resolves a customer pays 5yen to the owner of each store in that station for each customer resolved.
• Customers must go to the largest store that has the item they want. If they can’t reach that store, then they cannot be resolved. If multiple stores are the same size, then the player may choose which one they go to.
• Customers cannot pass through a store of the matching resouce on their way to get to a larger store.

Comments

Need to build on first turn. Players can run out of money if they build 2 shops and some track. Then they have to wait until a customer happens by.

Take a loan when short of money: borrow 10 and then pay 1 per turn until it’s paid off.

Summary: (A / G)

• Shops on board: 6 / 12
• Dept stores: 0 / 0
• Track: 15 / 13
• Citizens: 16 / 21 / 3 remaining on board
• Yen: 147 / 141

Citizens:

• Adrian: ◯◯◯◯◯◯ △△△△△ ⭒⭒⭒⭒⭒ (16)
• Gary: ◯◯◯◯ ⤫⤫⤫⤫⤫⤫⤫⤫ △△△ ▢▢▢▢▢ ⭒ (21)

Shops:

• Adrian: ◯◯ △△△ ⭒ (6)
• Gary: ◯◯ ⤫⤫⤫ △ △△ ▢▢▢ ⭒ (12)

Suggestions/Actions

For next playtest, more players.