shinjuku

Playtest #56

Mon 9 Dec 2019

Participants: Adam B, Gary K

Testing:

• Scoring: set collection
  • 4-cust = +6 pts
  • 3-cust = +3 pts
  • 2-cust = +1 pts
• During Final round, no need to spend cards for actions
• May continue past last matched customer during Move
• Pay card for extended Move
• Put dept store customer payment back in bag

Comments

• No majority bonus for customers

• can you move without satisfying a customer?

  • move without points
  • useful for herding
    • customer that isn’t accessible to current player can be moved

Feel good

• draw other players wild
• deprive them of wildcard or a customer placement there

Scoring multi sets

• means I care about more customer types
• more are relevant to my sets
• cf. focus on avoiding type that you need to throw away

We never did a double move

Score:

Adam: 54 = 30 + 4x6 + 0x3 + 0x1 Gary: 75 = 37 + 5x6 + 2x3 + 2x1

High score without building dept store

Thoughts on upgrading dept stores:

• can upgrade when you Move and give a customer to that store.
  • pay card during Move
• only on your move - not when other players give cust to that store
• enables strategy: move customers to prevent upgrade

New action: pay card to move customer to neighboring ward

Suggestions/Actions

Todo:

• Allow remaining customers to be dropped anywhere
• Require Move to use track
• Put customer paid for dept store back in bag
• Add more customers