shinjuku

Playtest #57

Fri 13 Dec 2019

Participants: Adam B, Gary K

Testing:

• double customers
  • 104 customers total
  • drawing 2 customer at a time at start
  • draw 4 once 3 dept stores build
• During Final round, no need to spend cards for actions
• Must use track during Move if possible
• Scoring: set collection
  • 4-cust = +3 pts
  • 3-cust = +2 pts
  • 2-cust = +1 pts
• May continue past last matched customer during Move
• Put dept store customer payment back in bag

Comments

Stopped early

POS: Number of customers in bag felt good (lots!)

POS: Lots of customers early in game on board

NEG: Lots of card drawing - (shuffling)

NEG: customers don’t clump immediately

Adam: Customer placement could just go to the top of discard pile

• to eliminate need to draw new card

NEG: too many good locations to eval and choose from

• which one to choose?
• trouble evaluating the entire board

NEG: drawing 4 cards for customers was tedious

Suggestions/Actions

next:

• test placing customer at location on top of discard