shinjuku

Playtest #19

Mon 1 Oct 2018

Participants: self, JeffB, AdamB, SverreR

Overview

Testing Chairman expansion:
- If Chairman is in your pool, then you can place wherever you want at start of turn.
- Chairman moves with other customers in that ward.
- Matches any department store (replaces customer that would have gone there)
- Ward with your Chairman is wild for you.
- Action: You can move your chairman to a neighboring space

Components

18”x20” board with Map of Tokyo
72 Ward cards
8/7/6 stores per player for 2/3/4-player
16/13/10 track per player for 2/3/4-player
3/2/2 dept stores per player for 2/3/4-player
60 Customer tokens:
- 19 ◯, 16 ⤫, 14 △, 11 ⭒

Rules

Setup

Deal 5 cards to each player

Turns

Place a random customer at start of turn

Each turn take 2 different actions:

Build: Pay a card, build a store in that ward
Upgrade: Pay a matching card and a matching customer, upgrade a store to a dept store
Lure: Pay a card, lure customers from that ward.
Expand: Pay any 1 card to build 1 track; pay 3 cards to build 2 connected track
Income: draw up to 5 cards, or draw 1 card if you already have 5 cards. Taking this action ends your turn.

Department Stores

When a department store is built, it triggers a burst of new customers: 4/4/3 customers for 2/3/4-player game.

Final turn

When last customer is placed, that player finishes their turn and then everyone (incl the person who drew the last customer) takes one additional turn.

Comments

Chairman: goal is to increase wildcard opportunities

Chairman in same location as your dept store is dangerous: you don’t get an extra wildcard and everyone else can use it to skip your dept store.

Adam: ◯◯◯◯ ⤫⤫⤫ △△△ ⭒⭒⭒⭒ = 10
Jeff: ◯◯◯◯ ⤫⤫⤫⤫ △△△ ⭒ = 8
Sverre: ◯◯ ⤫⤫⤫ △△△△ ⭒⭒ = 7
Gary: ◯◯◯ ⤫⤫ △△ ⭒⭒⭒ = 7

Spending an action to move the Chairman might be too expensive.

Suggestions/Actions

For next playtest:

Chairman: Add option to move chairman for free once per turn (no action)
Chairman can skip any store (not just dept stores)