Chief EGG Head
United States
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Originally posted in my blog
Mondriaan 2020
Mondriaan 2020 is probably my favorite filler of the year. It's a smallish 2 player abstract from Cwali. It's been available to play at www.mastermoves.eu as Comino, but the designer, Corné van Moorsel feels it's much better as a f2f game and I agree. The game comes in a nice small box and it holds 21 tiles representative of the artist, Mondrian. All tiles have red, yellow and blue or some combination of the colors. The tiles are a nice size so the game can take up a bit of space.
Gameplay is easy. The players are each dealt 10 tiles, 10 at random and one player takes the red and the other the yellow tile. All tiles are face up. The extra tile is the start piece. The start player gets a 5 point handicap. Each player takes turns placing a tile orthogonally adjacent to one already on the table assuring that all colors of touching borders match.
The player scores points equal to the number of tiles of the orthogonally adjacent touching colors, not including the tile just played.
If a tile cannot be played it is discarded from the game. After each player has had 11 turns, the game ends and the winner is the player with the most points.
As you can see, a simple game, but I enjoy the puzzle aspect to it and the challenge comes in figuring out how score big and block your opponent from doing the same. The game plays in about 10-15 minutes. I find games like this, the perfect after work game when you've had a long day, short in length and a little challenging and a lot satisfying when you play well.
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