Panda Spin

Played at convention of board and card games lovers, with many Tichu fans. Always had a great time.

Totally addicted to this game --> The cards returning to your hand give off the same satisfying feeling as upgrading your jokers in Balatro and it has a very strong "one more hand" vibe to it. love the strategy that goes into planning your hand, deciding which cards you might want to spin in order to create better melds and which cards you just need to get rid of. Getting the perfect sequence where you spin a card, use the fire symbol to burn a card, and then shed out with a bomb is just too fun. I love how each "suit" has a distinct flavour that will effect the feel of each game. The expansion is pretty good too. Must play at 2!

Addicting Haggis/Crisps killer excellent at 2P. I would never have guessed this was a Chudyk game—perhaps I need a few more plays to see the lineage.

Initial score. Plan to play more on BGA. But overall really glad to see Carl doing more stuff away from Asmadi. The development team over there has really been on a slump with his last few releases. The new innovation has lost all of its cohesiveness and Aegean Sea has some good ideas but was developed into a now common Cieslik mess of randomness for randomness sake.

Only one play right now but this game is an absolute banger. In a lot of ways it feels like Carl Chudyk mastering multi-card use: simple rule set with lots of strategic depth as you start grasping the subtleties of the mechanics.