shinjuku

Playtest #28

Thu 21 Mar 2019

Participants: AdamB, KenK, SverreR, ChrisM, JeffB

Overview

• Testing:
  • 5 players
  • 2 new players
  • Placing both drawn customers into same location

Components & Rules

Baseline rules, except:

• Draw 2 customers per turn after 3rd dept store is built
  • Place both customers into same location
• Per player: 2 dept stores, 5 stores, 9 track
• Throw the bag of customers at the next player so that they know it’s their turn.

Comments

Started with 3 player AdamB, KenK, self). Restarted when more people arrived.

Scores:

	◯	⤫	△	⭒	Score
Adam	~3~	2	1	1	4
KenK	3	~4~	2	3	8
Sverre	~3~	3	2	2	7
ChrisM	2	2	~3~	2	6
Jeff	~3~	3	3	2	8

Patchwork track, because it’s easy to place.

People keep saying “o” customers - not good theme

Feel bad - Sverre with only 2 cards. But he put himself that in that position.

Katsushika and Sumida. Colors too close. Hard to tell difference (across the water) in low light. Perhaps use a different pattern.

Slow with 5 players. Too much down time? But 2 new players.

Expansion: Hachiko would be much more powerful if it provided a new action that could earn customers.

After last customer is drawn, if another dept store is built, is the customer added to the bag?

• Does this customer get drawn next turn?
• Does that restart the endgame?
• Probably better to just have the customer removed from game to avoid this problem.

Tie at end of game. How to resolve?

• After removing most common cust type: compare total # of customers
• User player #
• Player order from end of game

• of pieces remaining (the player that used fewer wins), but this can still be a tie

Overall comment: Clumping customers is good

Liked having 2 customers drawn into same space.

Suggestions/Actions

For next playtest:

• Cutomer paid for dept store is removed from game.
• Remove 5th player support from base game
• Draw customers into same location