12 Rivers

🇩🇪 Original in German

I thought of that right away too when I saw it. 😃

🇩🇪 Original in German

That's exactly what I thought too, back when I first saw the mechanism with the balls. 😄

🇩🇪 Original in German

I would definitely recommend giving it a try. We had a lot of fun. 😊

🇩🇪 Original in German

It's a worker placement game where we collect magical pearls to fulfill our individual goal cards (which lie to the villagers). The pearls have different values, and as the game progresses we can get more villagers (Markayas) who give us additional individual scoring options. Better spots higher up the river, where our workers can collect specific pearls more precisely, are more expensive than spots further down, where you can't quite know yet which colors will arrive there (or whether a pearl will even land there at all). So it's about managing the resource cards carefully, which you need as payment for better worker spaces, but which also have abilities to get a small bonus at certain points in the game. The pearl storage is also limited, and depending on the worker space there's the possibility of getting fairies, which also bring various small bonuses. Whoever is early has more choices but will very likely be late with that worker in the next round. What are the other players doing? Where can I secure the best worker space for me at the lowest cost? Can I store the pearls? Which goal fits the pearls I have and will probably still get? And weighing that up again and again. The rules were clear to us quickly and we were fast in the flow of the game (fitting the title 😏).

🇩🇪 Original in German

We really like the look of it too and find it very harmonious as well. 😊 We counted several times because the "outlier" was noticeable. But everything was correct as it was. I had completed one more Markaya card (goal cards) than the others and one more general point card (you get those for a certain number of beads of one color that you've stored).