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My opinion is that the game is already purely abstract. The random setup is known to both players at the beginning and does not change. Of course it could be advantageous for the first or second player, but that is true of the opening position of any game (chess, checkers, etc.). In this regard, In...

I've actually asked this question to Bruno Cathala in the YouTube comments of his presentation video for the game. He seems pretty set on applying this rule to avoid the last few moves being tame. I agree he is a great boardgame designer and Im a huge fan of 7WD. But he is, to my knowledge, pretty n...

Cinquième partie pour moi, je vois une combinaison qui va me faite gagner mais le jeu s'arrête avant qu'on y arrive : "Il n'y a plus aucun anneau : le joueur avec le plus grand groupe d'anneaux connectés orthogonalement gagne la partie !" Bon, j'ai gagné quand même mais je m'interroge. En ...

Fair decisions and changes, thanks for caring about the issue and fixing it so quickly. An issue that remains is that the order of wins&losses still can be manipulated by giving up games that look like a loss, before the ones that are a win are ended. Even though I see your point, I dont think ...

Décision déplorable ! Beaucoup de gens n'ont simplement pas le temps de jouer en temps réel ou jouent à des jeux dont la communauté est tellement petite que le tour par tour est le seul moyen de se faire rencontrer les joueurs... Le mode arène que j'ai très vite adopté pour son côté compétitif n'a s...

In complete agreement !

Actually, nothing is said about that particular situation in the rules... From a realistic point of view, the rhino on D4 cannot affect the situation by pushing, since he's facing neither an opposing animal nor a rock. But the rules only say sth about adding the pushing strength and comparing it to ...

4c : Crescent (Croissant in french)
4f : Tripod. Definitely tripod...

Very late response to this post. Option 2 is fine but the advantage could quickly be really big on smaller boards. Option 1 has my vote with the a slight modification. The stronger player needs to win more points than the weaker. But is that the same thing ? Yes and no. I mean that the bar to win sh...