I Always Have Great Fun With AEG’s ‘Tiny Towns’, and You Can Too For 20% Off
Even though I keep screwing myself over multiple times, I love playing Tiny Towns and I’m always ready for round 2.
Tiny Towns is a tableau building game with pattern recognition and simultaneous turns. The goal of each player is to score the most victory points. Victory points are scored through the buildings you construct.
Design Your Own Tiny Town
Buildings in Tiny Towns are built through placing resource cubes in specific patterns on your town board. On each turn, the active player chooses a resource type (wood, stone, brick, wheat or glass) then every player places that resource cube in any unoccupied space on their board.
There are 7 categories of building and each game will have 1 of each type. The manual recommends some of the more simple ones within each category for your first game. But Tiny Towns comes with a LOT of building cards to choose from.
Once you have your buildings are chosen and your secret monument card, which is a secret building only you can build, you’re ready to go.
After placing a cube, if any player has a building’s pattern on their board, they can remove those cubes and place the associated building anywhere in the spaces where those cubes were.
The game ends once all players can’t build anymore. Then move onto scoring. It’s honestly one of the easiest games to teach and learn.
With just two players, the game played pretty fast. It’s a great puzzley game which requires being able to think multiple turns ahead but also keep in mind the various patterns you’ll need. Like a combination of Chess and Tetris.
Final Thoughts
Tiny Towns is great. I had a great time playing and it was super easy to teach. The rules could be one page if they didn’t have so many illustrations.
There are so many buildings, you’d be hard pressed to play the same game multiple times, even if you tried. Plus, there are expansions which add even more content as well.
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