Time to be whisked away to Tenby, a beautiful seaside town in Wales, known for their colourful buildings, scenic streets, and soothing piers. Boy, boardgames do make you wanna travel, huh?
Tenby, from
@mightyboards , is a quaint little tableau builder centred around constructing the best town with high scoring sections of streets and piers. Every round, players will be drafting cards to add to their streets, hoping to match the ever-growing list of scoring parameters to fulfill.
At the beginning of each of Tenby’s 10 rounds, players will choose a Day Card. This card tells you what actions are available for you on that very turn. They may allow you to draw from different decks, fishing for Terrace Cards, Pier Cards, Landmark Cards, or Residents to fill your town. But choosing an objectively better card will mean you are bumped to a later draft order in the next round!
Each card can be added to the left or right of an existing street in your tableau or start a new street. Roads have to align with roads, as do water sections. But you’ll see that every single card scores for a certain feature. And there are LOTS. Cards might score for adjacent benches, clouds, lamps, coloured houses, if you name it, it’s probably available to be scored. Some cards look directly to its neighbouring cards to count score while others, such as the powerful Landmark Cards, score for your entire street. It’s actually quite neat and not immensely stressful, because once a card is flanked by two others, its often not needed to take up mental overhead anymore!
Resident Cards are an additional scoring mechanism. These cards act like goals, asking you to fulfill certain parameters in as many streets as you can, with extra points if you ‘complete’ the street, which means finding those terminal pier cards to cap the ends of your streets!
Tenby is a fun one! The solo is quite relaxing, and the multiplayer can get fun as long as you don’t ramp up the player count too much. A 5P game took a little bit too long with some downtime, but it was still a good time. Oh, and make sure you check out the cards with storefronts on them. Each one has a delightful little pun on it!
Have you played Tenby?
