187: Fruit Picking | Paint the Roses | Tiny Farms

What this episode covers

Welcome to Which Game First where we boldly explore the hilariously huge world of board games. Did we unearth any hidden treasures you’ve been missing out on? Let’s find out! First up: We’re growing the fullest and fastest produce we can in Fruit PickingNext: We picky pruners hoping to satisfy the Queen of Hearts in Paint the RosesAnd lastly: We’re picky farmers rounding up just the right animals in Tiny Farms Fruit Picking Designed by: Jun-ichi ShindePublished by: Korea Boardgames Co., Ltd. (2020)Players: 1 – 4Ages: 8 & upPlaying time: 15 – 30 minutes In Fruit Picking the players become fruit farmers who will plant and pick fruit and trade them for market cards. The goal is to collect a set of market cards that satisfy one of the four possible victory conditions: 4 of the same fruit, 5 different fruits, 3 pairs of fruit, or a full fruit house (3 of a kind + 2 of a kind). Players start by taking all the seeds from one space on their fruit island board and then distribute them mancala-style in a clockwise direction. The last space a player puts a seed on becomes their active pick farm for this turn. They then choose to either add more seeds on that pack farm, or trade the seeds from that pick farm for a fruit market card. Keep a close eye on the 4 cards available in the fruit market, because an available fruit card could be outrageously expensive on your turn, but then it could become a practical bargain on your future turns! OK team, it’s time to go bananas! Orange you glad I didn’t say Strawberry? Paint the Roses Designed by: Ben GoldmanPublished by: NorthStar Game Studio (2022)Players: 2 – 5Ages: 11 & upPlaying time: 50 – 70 minutes Paint the Roses is a co-operative race game where players are the gardeners for the Queen of Hearts in Wonderland. The gardeners try to stay ahead of the queen who has a penchant for decapitation. How does the gardener stay out of the range of her majesty? Players will draw whim cards, which are cards that describe a type of pattern that the gardener is looking to make in the garden of roses. There are 3 types of whim cards: easy, medium, and hard. Easy whim cards will always show a pattern of 2 colors, a medium whim card could be a pattern of 2 colors OR 2 shapes, and a hard whim card could be 2 colors, 2 shapes, or some combination of both color and shape. On your turn, depending on any whim card in your hand, place a tile on the garden and then let others know if it satisfied the conditions of any of your whim cards. The other players look at their whim cards and they will also declare if any of their cards were achieved. Now without directly telling, players deduce HOW a whim card was EXACTLY satisfied. Correct answers advance the gardener away from her majesty. Incorrect answers DOUBLE the movement of the queen as she chases you around the outside of the game board. To win, players must fully place all tiles in the garden before the queen catches up to the gardener on the game track. Now I must be getting on, I’m late for a date with a white rabbit. Tiny Farms Designed by: Ben Pinchback, Matt RiddlePublished by: Dice Hate Me Games, Motor City Gameworks (2020)Players: 1 – 4Ages: 6 & upPlaying time: 20 – 30 minutes In Tiny Farms, you are a farmer managing TWO farms, Blue and Red, aiming to be the best farmer in the county. For each color farm,

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