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[thechriscormier]

I love finding new first-player/current-player replacement pieces for my games. This one replaced the cardboard elephant that came with the game, Rajas of the Ganges and was always coming apart several times per game. Rajas is a really great worker placement game that actually is a race game. Players are racing to build their estates with buildings, wealth and game. Rajas of the Ganges is a brilliant mix of mechanisms, with players placing workers using dice colors and/or pip numbers for placement (not quite a dice placement game but kindof) and a very clever tile placement mechanism on individual player boards to collect resources. Players are collecting 2 different points in the game: Wealth and Fame are tracked from opposite ends of the same track and when the a player's two point token cross each other it triggers the end of the game. A Karma track let's players manipulate dice and the tiles give players markets that provide wealth and buildings that provide fame. If all that sounds really hard and complicated - think again. The game is very easy to learn, with mechanisms that just make sense and for together easily and elegantly. And the whole satisfying experience can be played in 45 to 75 minutes depending on player count. If I had to find something that I wasn't thrilled about, its that I often find the game is really exciting and tense right up until the very end where it sometimes feels like it ends abruptly. But that is probably because I've never won this game, so the ending always seems to come a few turns too early for me. 😁😆🤣 A very fun and interesting mix of mechanisms and decisions. Very highly recommended! #BoardGame #gaming #games #WorkerPlacementGame #FirstPlayer #BoardGameImprovements #elephant #TilePlacement #race #India #DicePlacement #TabletopGames #BoardGameBits #BoardGamePieces #token #FirstPlayerToken #CurrentPlayerMarker #GameRecommendations #RajasOfTheGanges https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckw_lYMtyXT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thechriscormier]

Eko, designed by #HenriKermarrec and published by#SitDown. Such great bits and pieces! #ModernBoardGames #BoardGamers #gaming #BoardGameGeeks #BGG #BoardGameBits #Eko