Hi,
i Just finished playing a couple of rounds of Takara Island.
Very nice game and development but there is a glitch in the scoring system which can be exploited.
In the original rules, it states that if no stones are found and only two decks remain, nobody wins. But on BGA the current score is counted and used as tiebreaker. This eliminates this rule and actually changes it to another system eliminating the need to find at least one of the stones.
Normally only one player wins either by finding both stones or by getting the highest score after one stone has been found.
I think this does not respect the original intention of the board game designer.
i Just finished playing a couple of rounds of Takara Island.
Very nice game and development but there is a glitch in the scoring system which can be exploited.
In the original rules, it states that if no stones are found and only two decks remain, nobody wins. But on BGA the current score is counted and used as tiebreaker. This eliminates this rule and actually changes it to another system eliminating the need to find at least one of the stones.
Normally only one player wins either by finding both stones or by getting the highest score after one stone has been found.
I think this does not respect the original intention of the board game designer.