Hello All!
Welcome to my 1st gaming post! I’m thinking of regularly doing these posts on Saturday’s (because gaming is best on a weekend!) But, I couldn’t wait to get my first post out to “Test The Waters!” …..ha ha ha! Ok. You’ll see why that’s funny when I explain my first game. ..Maybe. Today I’m going to talk about a CO-OPERATIVE tabletop card/tile strategy GAME called ‘Forbidden Island’!
Genre: tabletop strategy
Players: 2-4 (although, it does come with 6 pieces and player cards…)
The point of the game is to collect all of the artifacts and get off the island before it sinks into the ocean. (I felt like Indiana Jones!!)
Setup
The setup in super easy! Just set the tiles out in a cross pattern, and set the artifacts around it.
Shuffle and dole out the character cards at random to each player. Each character card has a special trait that you will read aloud so that the other players know what you can do.
You must flip the top 6 cards from the flood cards (the blue deck) and flip those tiles over to their blue and white side. Those pieces are now flooded and you must get to them and “shore them up” because if they are pulled from the deck again than they are out of play for the rest of the game.
Each person is also dealt 2 treasure cards. You will receive 2 more of these at the end of each turn
When you acquire 4 matching treasure cards and you get to a tile with that matching treasure, the treasure is yours!
Gameplay
Each player will take their turn. They can conduct 3 actions per turn (ie. Moving, ‘shoring up’ a piece of land, or conducting their special action) then they will take 2 treasure cards and flip over some island cards in the amount of the water level.
Watch out in the treasure cards though! There is a card called “Water Rises!”
This forces you to turn up the water level (forcing you to turn over more flood cards, flooding more island tiles after every turn) and has you put all of the used flood cards back in the TOP of the pile (which means you WILL be picking them again in the next couple of turns or you’re going to lose a lot of island!!)
Work together to get all the artifacts and get off the island before you get trapped or your artifacts all sink away!!
Thoughts
I LOVE this game! I love that it’s co-operative so there are no sore losers!! Now, that’s not saying you won’t get angry at the people you are playing with! Choose your co-operative partners well! (my man sank our artifact into the ocean, thus ending the game…)
The gameplay is frantic and sometimes hilarious when that water level keeps rising. It gets VERY challenging! You really have to play to the abilities of your characters! My friend and I made it off the island with, probably about 5 tiles left in play! It was definitely a race to the finish!
I love that the game can be enjoyed over and over because the tiles will always get put down differently and your abilities all make the game entirely different each time you play.
Wow that sounds a)complicated and b) a precursor to divorce. I’m out 🤣🤣
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Ha ha! It’s actually really easy! Geez, I even got my man to read this one over to make sure that I was explaining it well and not in an overly complicated manner. Flip tiles over and when they flood, try to flip them back over so they’re not flooded… That’s pretty much the whole game! 😉
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that’s a lot of flipping and flooding 🙂
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Lmao! True, that flipping flooding!! 😉😉
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😂
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My friends and I play this game after Catan so we can repair our friendship ha! A great starter game and easy to learn.
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Ha ha! I can understand needing to mend friendships after Catan!! 👍
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This looks fun!
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It’s SO much fun! As long as you play it with someone who pays attention! Although, if you don’t, sometimes that’s fun too! Lol!
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I love playing “real” games. It’s hard to find enough people for some. Like Cards Against Humanity, but there’s an online version (Evil Apples) that’s pretty fun too.
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I LOVE cards against humanity!! I am so EVIL in that game!! Lmao!! I come up with the worst pairings EVER!! I didn’t know there was a kind of online version! I’ll have to check that out!
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Do it!!! It’s pretty raunchy but that’s part of the fun, right?
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EXACTLY!! I usually end up on the ground crying…. From laughter. Lmao!
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OMG That sounds sooo cool! I need this game, I can definitely have some fun with this, I love games where you need a strategy and just use your brain! I knew I would love your games posts,please keep writing them so I can add more games to my collection haha!
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Lol!! GLADLY! Because that gives me an excuse to KEEP PLAYING GAMES! 😋 This one is definitely a lot of fun!!
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Hahah! yay for tabletop games!!!!! co-op game sounds like fun, so, if i got it right there are 2 or more teams and the first one to get out of the island with the artifacts wins? or everyone either wins or loses like one big team?
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Everyone wins or loses as one big team according to the rules that are written. But, I would TOTALLY play as 2 teams! It would absolutely work and probably be hilarious!!
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Yeeep, after all, rules are meant to be broken (or ignored until the game doesn’t make sense anymore) 😛
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EXACTLY!! That’s normally how I play all my games!! Lol!
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This sounds like a lot of fun. I have never seen this game locally so I will have to keep an eye out for it.
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The internet is everyone’s best friend!
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Love Forbidden Island! If you like this one, try Forbidden Desert, it’s a blast. Great first tabletop review! =-)
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