shinjuku

Playtest #6

Fri 24 Aug 2018

Participants: self, AdamB, JeffB, SverreR, AdrianK

4-player game: Adrian/Gary combined

Overview

• Testing:
  • Placing first shop anywhere as part of setup
  • Using doubles for wild card
  • 2 actions per turn
  • restricted height for stations
  • score only based on customers
  • seed at end of turn (instead of start)

Components

• 18”x20” board with Map of Tokyo
• 48 Ward cards
• 15 stores per player (3 of each type)
• 20 track per player
• 2 dept stores per player
• 40 Customer tokens:
  • 10 ◯, 9 ⤫, 8 △, 7 ▢, 6 ⭒

Rules

Setup

• Deal 3 cards to each player

Initial seeding

Each player seeds 2 customers (for 4-player) and then places a store for free anywhere on the board.

Turns

Each turn take 2 different actions:

• Build a store
• Upgrade an existing store
• Build rail
• Lure customers
• Discard

At end of turn, draw back up to 3 cards

Final turn

When last customer is placed, everyone takes one additional turn. Restricted to 1 Lure action

Player actions

Building stores

Play card for ward, pay 10yen, place store on empty station.

Upgrading stores

On top of one of your shops. Pay 20 for 1st upgrade, 40 for 2nd, 80 for 3rd

Build Rail

For this action, the first section is free, 2nd costs 20yen, 3rd costs 100yen.

Lure customers

Play card for matching ward to lure customers.

Discard

Discard any number of cards and draw back up to 3

Comments

Add action to trigger income.

Draw up to 5 cards in hand (instead of 3)

Add more cards to deck (to adjust probs and reduce shuffling)

Score:

• Adam: ◯◯ ⤫⤫ △△ ⭒
• Jeff: ◯◯◯◯◯◯◯◯ △ ⭒
• Sverre: ⤫ △△△ ▢▢ ⭒
• Gary/Adrian: ⤫⤫ △△ ▢▢▢▢ ⭒

Scoring possibilities (A / J / S / GA):

• Raw count: 7 / 10 / 7 / 9
• Triangle score: 10 / 38 / 11 / 17
• Squaring score: 13 / 65 / 15 / 25
• 1pt per max resource: 0 / 1 / 1 / 1
• 1pt per max-tied resource: 2 / 1 / 1 / 1

Triangle and Square scoring encourage players to focus on a single resource type.

Triangle score: 1=1; 2=3; 3=6; 4=10;5=15;6=21; 7=28; 8=36

Squaring score: 1=1; 2=4; 3=9; 4=16; 5=25; 6=36; 7=49; 8=64

Suggestions/Actions

For next playtest:

• 5 cards / hand
• Add more cards to deck (to ensure that there are at least 2 for each ward)
• Fix scoring
• Remove money