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Freehand

2023-09-05T09:33:17-04:00

Vendor: Indie Boards & Cards
Type: Board Games
Price: 6.23

Designer	Julio E. Nazario
Publisher	Indie Boards & Cards
Players	3-6
Playtime	25 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	399118/freehand http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/399118/freehand/forums/63

Freehand is a creative party game where anyone can make a masterpiece!

Each round, image cards will be set up in the middle of the table, and each player will secretly choose one to be their inspiration. The goal is to paint something close enough to your inspiration that everyone can guess what image you picked.

The twist? You’re painting with cubes!

The players must use a wooden “artist’s pen” to push around mini cubes, and make an abstract masterpiece that evokes the image card they chose.

With a hundred different images to play through, there are endless artistic challenges to dive into! Will genius flow from the tip of your pen?

—description from the publisher

Dulce

2022-08-04T15:04:50-04:00

Vendor: Stronghold Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Julio E. Nazario
Publisher	Stronghold Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	367522/dulce http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367522/dulce/forums/63

Competition is tough in the world of sweets. You need to plant your fields strategically with cacao, coffee, peanuts, and vanilla, then use those beans efficiently to make the best confectionaries around! Using every resource is necessary to beat out your competition.

In Dulce, each player has their own deck with beans on one side of each card and a factory on the other, as well as their own field in which to plant. Every round, one player draws a card and the others search their deck for the same card, then everyone chooses their action simultaneously: plant, harvest, or build a new factory. Planting gains you new cacao, coffee, peanut, and vanilla resources, and harvesting allows you to use those resources in your factories.

Each confectionary made in your factories earns you one point, and at the end of twenty rounds, the player with the most points wins!

—description from the publisher

Holi: Festival of Colors

2020-06-19T02:31:11-04:00

Vendor: Floodgate Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Julio E. Nazario
Publisher	Floodgate Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	295957/holi-festival-colors http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/295957/holi-festival-colors/forums/63

In HOLI: Festival of Colors, players gather to celebrate the end of winter as they spread colorful powder on each other, dancing and celebrating new beginnings.

Mechanisms & Features
Area Control - Colored powder tokens spread across the board and onto other players, covering the board in the pattern selected
3-Tier Board - Players ascend to have their powder fall from above, giving up victory points for better control
Puzzle-like Action Selection - Color cards determine the pattern colored powder will fly in, giving players room to select the pattern that works best for them.
Variable Scoring Condition - Each game can have slightly different scoring conditions, adding depth and replayability

Ctrl

2020-04-22T22:24:41-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Julio E. Nazario
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	304679/ctrl http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304679/ctrl/forums/63

In Ctrl, players try to dominate a cube by crawling over it with their colored bricks, preferably covering other players' bricks along the way.

In more detail, you start with a 3x3x3 cube that has one block of each player color stuck into one of the cube's holes. (In a two-player game, each player controls two colors, but at the start of play they secretly choose one of those colors to be their scoring color, with the other color serving only as a blocking mechanism.) Each player has a matching colored flag that sticks out of their block.

On a turn, a player removes their flag from its current location, adds one cube of their color to the side of any of their blocks (where such a move can be made), then they "grow" their color by adding two blocks in a straight line from the block they just added, crawling around corners and covering other players' blocks if needed. To end your turn, plant your flag in one of your final blocks, ideally blocking where someone else might like to play while also preserving future ground in which you can play.

Once all the blocks have been placed, you calculate your score by looking at the structure from all four surrounding sides, as well as from the top, and counting each unblocked square of your color that is visible. Thus, if you plant a block high up on the cube, you can possibly score 5 points for it since it would be seen from all sides and the top. Climb high, and block others from blocking you!