Petrichor is a stunningly beautiful game with simple-to-learn rules, while still providing rich and thoughtful decisions during gameplay. It is designed in a way that remote gaming is a breeze, even if only one side has a copy! (Although the side that has it gets to brag about how pretty it is in person!)
During your turn you play a card (or combine cards to turn them into the card needed) for its action and then either vote on a weather condition or move a die one step towards harvest (scoring phase). You then can play two for the price of one for another action as long as no one has passed. This continues until one player passes, then every other player gets one more turn. Weather will be applied and then you start the next round.
There are very few modifications needed to fully enjoy this game remotely!
- During set up: number the tiles. We use dry erase tokens to put on the tiles to number them for ease of explaining what tile is affected. You could also use paper that you cut up large enough to write numbers for the other sides to see.1a: During set up: the side without the game may want to write down each tile number and the scoring potential for reference during play. 1b: If all sides have a copy, then the non-random sides organizes their player cards in stacks of each weather type to be able to grab into their hand when shown what their cards are by the random side.
- During play: hold up cards to the camera for the remote players. -Honor system required! No peeking when someone else’s cards are being shown!
-Highly recommend using card holders as each person could have up to 10 cards.
-Make sure the cards are spread out so the other side can clearly see them.
2a: During game play: the side with the game may have to say what raindrops are on tiles or weather voting spaces. This is more likely towards the end of the game as a scoring phase will definitely occur.
Petrichor is an elegant area control game requiring very few modifications for remote play. The rule book is very nicely laid out making learning a breeze… no pun intended!
We give Petrichor a very solid 10/10, both in person and remotely played.
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