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blue meeples go on blue spaces, pink meeples on pink and so on. Some visitors are quite demanding and only show up if we have a food cart, a gift shop or a toilet. Meeples aren‘t the only way to get points, but they are important for generating income for the next round. After four rounds, scores are tallied. We get points for attractions and guests, deductions for paths that dead end, and cus-
tomers who were left waiting outside the gate.
I Different attractions and path planning Tactically, the game presents
us with several tasks. First, Meeple Land is a puzzle. When placing tiles, you have to take care to
connect all the tiles via paths, create enough open space for future
connections and at the same time not allow any paths to zoom off into the void. But, you also need to build as many differ-
ent attractions as possible. So it can hap-
pen that the optimal tile for path planning won‘t bring in any points, because we al- ready haveaia16c2o3p05y2i0n96p7l5a_yG.esFcinheanllkya,btoh_e17re0x‘s123,8
Is the Park Barrier-free? By CHRISTWART CONRAD
Despite the inviting gameplay, the number of hurdles that casual players have to jump over to get into Meeple Land should not be underestimated. They start with the not-very-carefully written rules and continue until the end of the game.
That‘s when you‘ll be hit with the surprise that income, which takes real work to set up, is worth nothing. Nothing at all. It doesn‘t even break ties.
Admittedly and by comparison, the misinformation on the last page of the rule- book that there are seven, and not eight, caterpillar roller coast- ers isn‘t that big a deal. It may simply have been that there was space to print the distribution of the attraction tiles, but it would have made more sense to include these values on the overview you find on the scoring sheet. There, they could also have noted the space requirements of the different attractions, because the allocation of the different rides, which have similar color patterns that can be found on several types, is not easy at first sight. This is even more true with the ones that appear to be mirrored inversions. This promptly led to a player having to deduct
one of his pirate ship rides, which he thought were different . . .
In addition, the low-contrast graphics make it difficult to recognize the paths. Their asymmetrical distribution due to uneven mirroring (and also some tiles with sym- metrical points) lowers the probability that a connection will fit.
The underrepresentation of attractions for yellow meeples, which like all others ar- rive in about half the buses, proves to be a trap that can saddle the uninitiated with
a fair amount of negative points. (sb) _20210607_EN.pdf 1 07.06.2021 09:48:17
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