Read my detailed written review of Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar: www.gamingtrent.com Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar is a dynamic worker placement game for two to four players, designed by Simone Luciani and Daniele Tascini, and is published by Rio Grande Games among others. As with other worker placement games, each player has a number of worker tokens that they place on various spots on the board. The spots convey abilities of various types. The twist with Tzolk’in is that most of the board consists of an interlocking gear system, with several smaller gears positioned around the outside of the large central gear. Each round, the central gear moves a small amount, causing the smaller gears to also move. Workers are actually placed on the smaller gears, and thus each round, those workers move a bit, too. The smaller gears also “point” to various powers at regular intervals, and those powers are activated when a player pulls one of their workers off of the gear when their worker is at the power they desire. Since powers tend to grow stronger the longer you let your worker sit on the gear, there’s a time investment for the abilities you desire to use. The game is playable in about ninety minutes. If you’d like to read (or watch or listen to…) more of my gaming reviews and other materials, visit www.gamingtrent.com Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com Feel free to ask me any and all questions about tabletop gaming there. Check out my podcast, “Twenty Minutes with Gaming …
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You lost me at trick taking… LOL
I would say the best card game in the world is Bridge. Although very complicated, it is by far the most fun game I have ever played.
Spades is the best trick taking game. Though powers being added to the cards sounds cool.
If you love trick-taking games, how do you feel about euchre? I ask because I’m from Western New York, where it’s THE card game (and my personal favorite card game of any kind), but it’s essentially a regional game and I’ve never met someone from below the Mason-Dixon Line that knew how to play it.