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Allen Doum
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What are the pre printed number on the storage board food boxes used for?

I didn't see anything in the rules, or in the other Rules threads here.
 
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That's the initial number of food tokens placed in that harvest space. See "Preparation" step 4 on p. 3.

EDIT: seems like they should've been printed inside the space where you put the tiles, so that they're covered up by the tiles & not visible after step 6, since you don't need to see them during the game.
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Thanks. Missed that sentence under point 4.
 
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kuhrusty wrote:
That's the initial number of food tokens placed in that harvest space. See "Preparation" step 4 on p. 3.

EDIT: seems like they should've been printed inside the space where you put the tiles, so that they're covered up by the tiles & not visible after step 6, since you don't need to see them during the game.


Which is only the initial food tokens for 2 seconds, as you immediately add more in the next setup step, based on the landscape tiles showing.

The whole thing is kind of weird, but covering them would have been a good idea.
 
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Henning Kröpke
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The initial number of food is placed as wooden tokens on the harvest spaces and is the food you can harvest in the first game round.

The first time you add more food tokens on the harvest spaces is at the end of the first game round - when you refill a number of tokens based on the number of players plus the landscape tiles (shown by the appropriate cardboard tiles).
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Whoops, my mistake.
 
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UnknownParkerBrother wrote:
Whoops, my mistake.

I was making the same "mistake".

So much for 50 years experience reading game rules. blush
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I made the same mistake. For some reason I'm just not grokking the rules.
 
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AllenDoum wrote:
UnknownParkerBrother wrote:
Whoops, my mistake.

I was making the same "mistake".

So much for 50 years experience reading game rules. blush


I made the same mistake and I know other people have done it wrong too.

I think it happens because step 6 of the Preperation section says this:



It is easy to mistakenly read that as you are supposed to place the food. If you read it carefully, you can see it is only saying to place the token with the restock number.
 
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