Comments on: Letter Jam Review https://www.boardgamequest.com/letter-jam-review/ Board Game Reviews, News and More Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:10:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Álvaro Begué https://www.boardgamequest.com/letter-jam-review/#comment-84222 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:10:13 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=34122#comment-84222 Perhaps you should give Hanabi another try, with a few twists:
(1) Use the tile version. Holding cards in order is hard to do, but keeping dominoes in order is trivial.
(2) When someone gives you the color of a tile, push it forward to remember its color has been revealed. If you forget what the color was, just ask “What color did you say this was?”.
(3) Similarly, when someone gives you the number of a tile, stand it vertically instead of horizontally. If you forget what the number was, ask.

This eliminates the memory aspect of the game almost entirely, so you can concentrate on things like coming up with conventions that get tiles played without throwing information away, discarding tiles predictably (so other players know to stop you if the discard is not safe), making the optimal number of discards in a game, making sure that a player doesn’t have too many playable tiles at the end of the game, etc.

It’s a blast!

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