Flower Fields is my pick for the best hidden gem of 2024. My wife and I really like Patchwork, a game similar to Flower Fields in many ways. But Flower Fields is a satisfying step-up, offering crunchier decisions and more varied paths to victory. The setup, gameplay, and teardown is also lightning quick. If you or your gaming friends/family are tile laying lovers, you owe it to yourself to try this game out.
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Flower Fields
Order by 15:00 Italian time for same-day dispatch, Monday to Friday.
Delivery in Italy normally takes 1 business day, 2 for the islands.
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The game is played over 3 Seasons, each composed of a variable number of rounds. On your turn, you must perform 1 action, either taking Flower tiles from the Field and placing them in your garden, taking Bees from the Field, or placing Bees in your Garden.
When taking Flower tiles, you should pick the next tile after the Sun marker in the circle around the Field, but you can spend Bees from your reserve and place it on that tile to "skip" it. Manage your Bees wisely and pick the best Flower tiles.
Flower tiles must connect to at least another tile in your garden. Create large flowerbeds of the same color and use your Bees to pollinate them and increase their value. Collect Hives and get rid of Spider Webs to gather more Bees at the end of the Season.
A Season ends when the last Flower tile has been taken from the circle around the Field. At the end of the third Season, the game ends.
You score your most valuable area of each color: Red/Yellow/Blue areas are worth points equal to the number of spaces times the number of Bees in that area; white areas are worth 1 point for each space in that area. You also get 5 points for each full row and/or column in your Garden board.
—description from the publisher
| Mechanics: | Tile Placement Drafting aperto Grid Coverage |
| Categories: | Animals Puzzle |
| Alternative names: | |
| BARCODE: | 8056324762386 |
| The item is in 1 cart In 1 wishlist This was seen 1361 times | |
The game is played over 3 Seasons, each composed of a variable number of rounds. On your turn, you must perform 1 action, either taking Flower tiles from the Field and placing them in your garden, taking Bees from the Field, or placing Bees in your Garden.
When taking Flower tiles, you should pick the next tile after the Sun marker in the circle around the Field, but you can spend Bees from your reserve and place it on that tile to "skip" it. Manage your Bees wisely and pick the best Flower tiles.
Flower tiles must connect to at least another tile in your garden. Create large flowerbeds of the same color and use your Bees to pollinate them and increase their value. Collect Hives and get rid of Spider Webs to gather more Bees at the end of the Season.
A Season ends when the last Flower tile has been taken from the circle around the Field. At the end of the third Season, the game ends.
You score your most valuable area of each color: Red/Yellow/Blue areas are worth points equal to the number of spaces times the number of Bees in that area; white areas are worth 1 point for each space in that area. You also get 5 points for each full row and/or column in your Garden board.
—description from the publisher
| Mechanics: | Tile Placement Drafting aperto Grid Coverage |
| Categories: | Animals Puzzle |
| Alternative names: | |
| BARCODE: | 8056324762386 |
| The item is in 1 cart In 1 wishlist This was seen 1361 times | |
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Extremely nice tile placement with some extra's that give the game extra depth. Really enjoyed playing. Has some similarities with Patchwork but I prefer this one over Patchwork.
Tile-laying is one of my favourite mechanisms in board games, so it's not a surprise that I've enjoyed Flower Fields quite a lot. Bees provide that additional twist to spice up gameplay a little bit. They are a powerful victory points multiplyer, especially when played smartly - you might want to create a few smaller fields of the same colour and put bees on them, and then connect them all to create one huge field. The points for filling up rows and columns are nothing to be sneezed at either, as they can tip the scale as well. Currently, Flower Fields is my top #3 polyomino game, with only World Wonders and Frosted Blooms rating higher. Totally recommended!
Osobiście bardzo uwielbiam tę grę. Bardzo przypadła mi do gustu. Jest w miarę szybka i prosta. Najlepiej mi si grało na 4 osoby. Wtedy każda osoba ma możliwość uzbierania więcej kafelków i ułożenia lepszej i większej polany kwiatów. Jest tutaj w niej trochę losowości ponieważ, ktoś może nam zabrać płytkę, która akurat nam bardzo odpowiada i moglibyśmy ułożyć całą linię i zdobyć punkty. Udało mi się zachęcić do niej moją mamę oraz młodszego brata, któremu niekoniecznie szło dobrze, ale za to mamie poszło celująco. Jeżeli poszukujecie gry, która pozwoli spędzić Wam czas z bliskimi i tymi młodszymi oraz starszymi to jest to idealna pozycja! Pszczółki osobiście skradły moje serce!
I’m liking this a lot more than I thought would. At first glance it’s a run of the mill polyomino affair mixing together Patchwork drafting with Kingdomino scoring - but it’s done with so much charm, well considered production choices, and clever gameplay quirks and nuances to make it one of the best games in the genre.
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