Ingenious!

We played the award-winning German board game called Ingenious. Here are my thoughts on this game:

Things I liked about this game:

-Simple

-Special game for single player

-Up to 4 players, good for family or group of friends

-Lots of freedom on placement which would involve more thinking/strategy from the players rather than luck such as rolling a dice in other games (though it does involve some luck when drawing pieces)

-6 pieces only, so they have just enough to use which would require thinking verses having too many which wouldn’t require much thinking if you have the piece for everything.

-Loser is the player with the lowest score for any colour (makes players value certain colours over others more)

-Can see other player’s score board, helps you develop a strategy

Things I disliked about this game:


 -Rule where youngest player must go first and then go clock-wise (unbalanced)

-Additional rules for single player (which can’t be helped but doesn’t have the same feel as multiplayer).

-Swapping Tiles rule if they hold no tile for the lowest score they can swap out their hand for a new hand at the end of the turn.

-Rule where the board games bigger as the number of player’s increase. I prefer to just let the player’s choose their game size freely.

-Average game time for two players is too short for me

Things I Would of Changed:

-Rule where the youngest player must go first. If the players were to play more than one round it would make the game imbalanced since the that player (the youngest) would always go first. Instead randomized the first player (ex. using a dice, assuming cost isn’t a factor)

-Allow the players to choose game size. I might want the game to last longer so might want to choose the bigger size board. Leave the choice to the player and have recommendations for the board sizes based on the rules they have now.

  
What do you guys thing about the changes?
Do you guys agree that it would make the game better?