Legendary Forests tones down the theme into one of creating a world of beautiful forests of differing tree species.

After the construction round, the token moves to the left with the next player starting the next construction round. Tiles must be placed so that colors match on all sides of the tile, and they must touch at least one other tile. On the less-fun side, I’m not entirely convinced that limiting trees as a resource does anything but force players to not explicitly copy each other, so, I’m vaguely irritated by it. This is a great gateway game to introduce non-gamers to the wonderful world of more complex board games.

If you’re cool with multiplayer solitaire and you like tile-laying games (or forests), Legendary Forests might be right up your alley! If the chosen tile number happens to be one with a light background (scoring tile), that triggers selection of tree tokens. A key concept is the creation of sizeable forests of the same trees, with more points gained if the forests are closed rather than open.

If you have no half-circles in this area — that is, the area is completely enclosed — then you score 2 points for each cookie in that area. He is a contributor to The Dice Tower Podcast and has written for Games Trade Magazine and Meeple Monthly. You won’t be able to get enough runes together to win if that large of a mass is incomplete, so, get ready to bet bit.Anyways, I have it now, and I’m going to talk more about this and a few more games from Iello in the future (Little Town and SOS Dino, both of which are pretty exciting). One player is chosen as the Architect, who randomly discards five of their tiles from their set and puts the rest into a stack in front of them. Placing Tree tokens in your forests will increase their beauty and worth, and at the end of the game, the closed forests will reward you with even more points! This is pretty hard to do, to be honest, but towards the end of the game you might be able to cost another player a few points by taking a tree that would have let them score. To begin the game you must first decide upon an Architect, who will take one set of tiles, find the tile labelled 1 and set it aside, remove 5 other tiles from their set at random, shuffle them and place the remaining tiles in a face-down stack.