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We will have a variety of games for people to drop in and play and a few that we will highlight. Most games are quick to learn and play in about a half hour and we will be on hand to teach the games. Some games to choose from will be: Deep Sea Adventure, Town 77, Sea Salt & Paper, and Steam Up.For most of the day, we will have Nekojima for people to stop by and try. Nekojima is a game of skill and dexterity in which you have to keep an entire installation in balance. Players take turns placing or stacking denchuu — 電柱, or electrical poles — respecting the locations without any hanging cables touching. Be careful not to be the one to bring down the structure. This game requires reflection, concentration and skill.
10:30am - Bonsai - 4 players - first come, first play.
If there is interest, we can run multiple back-to-back sessions so more people can try the game.
In Bonsai, players take on the role of expert bonsai masters intent on growing their own bonsai. Whoever grows the best plant will be appointed to show their Bonsai at the Imperial gardens.
On your turn, choose and perform one of these two actions: meditate or cultivate. If you meditate, choose one of the face up cards on the board and take it, along with any Bonsai tiles represented below the card you draw. If you cultivate, you can place in your Bonsai the tiles which are in your personal supply. You can place as many tiles as the total symbols depicted on your Seishi tile and any or all of your Growth cards. Each symbol will let you place one tile of the corresponding type.
During the turn in which your bonsai matches or exceeds the requirements of a Goal tile that is still in the middle of the table (i.e., the Goal tile has not been claimed yet by any player), you must immediately choose whether you want to claim that tile or if you want to renounce it in order to try to achieve a harder Goal tile.
When the last card from the deck is revealed, the game end is triggered. Each tile in your bonsai is worth a certain number of points.
1:30pm - White Castle - 4 players - first come, first play.
This game is more strategic and more complex. Rules are simple but how actions chain together and planning out your moves can be a challenge.
In The White Castle, players will control one of these clans in order to score more victory points than the rest. To do so, they must amass influence in the court, manage resources boldly, and place their workers in the right place at the right time. The White Castle is a Euro type game with mechanics of resource management, worker placement and dice placement to carry out actions. During the game, over three rounds, players will send members of their clan to tend the gardens, defend the castle or progress up the social ladder of the nobility. At the end of the match, these will award players victory points in a variety of ways.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Vermont Anime and Gaming Expo, 60 Battery Street,Burlington, Vermont, United States
