The final minutes of a Hadara game often feel like your economy collapsing. Three eras of colonizing, statue-carving, and increasing influence have come down to this: who has the most points? Calculating it out is complicated, so doing it in your head usually result in a mistake. Gold sets, silver medals, and color bonuses all … Read more

Ginkgopolis eventually hits a point where the supply of tiles depletes and the game changes. Instead of a puzzle about space placement, it becomes an exercise in bookkeeping. You can place your buildings and trade away all day long, but winning will require understanding what’s beneath those physical pieces: How many points do they represent? … Read more

Scoring in the final round at Yokohama is a bit of an accounting exercise. There’s no real strategy here; instead it’s just a matter of translating whatever mess you’ve left on the board to some amount of victory points. It’s important to stay locked down at this point because mistake can be costly. First, you … Read more

Suddenly the chatter stops and the table fall silent as one of the players hits ten points. You’re getting good, but who has how many? Trying to settle up while people argue is no way to win. Just use tool above to get answer. It’ll do all the calculations for you. Now you can think … Read more

There’s something strange about how tense the last few minutes are during a game of Gugong. Four days ago, you were moving envoys through Silk Road and swapping silk for tea. And now? It’s time for some math. Scoring doesn’t happen all at once, though; it happens as a series of events triggered by one … Read more

The last few rounds of Fjords are just about a certain type of panic. You’ve claimed your fields, you’ve put down your longhouses, there’s a tangle of wood fences and disputed territory on map. Whoever has the most obvious piece of real estate might win… or they might be the person who best counted all … Read more

In the final round of Clans of Caledonia there’s a bit of both terror and triumph. For five rounds, you’ve shuffled worker. You’ve traded milk for cheese. You’ve argued about the most efficient route to move hops from port to port. Now it’s done. There on the board sits all those settlements in scattered groups, … Read more