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Loosing points in areas/groups

Posted: 12 May 2023, 09:24
by Trattkatt
I have read the rules over and over again but can not find the answer.

I have had several games now where somehow my "group/area"-points are decreased/disappearing.

Let's say i have a group of 3 tiles where all of them have red apples, I have 2 points for this next to my red apples.
All of a sudden, when placing another tile somewhere else on the board, the point is suddenly 0.

I can not see anything in the rules explaining this.
Can someone please explain why my groups of several tiles with the same apple color, suddenly gives 0 scores?

Re: Loosing points in areas/groups

Posted: 12 May 2023, 10:02
by Ez0ah
Hum, the points decrease after each blossom, since the die value increases, but probably not the issue here.
Maybe it’s a bug. Can you provide a link to a game where it happened?

Re: Loosing points in areas/groups

Posted: 14 May 2023, 14:04
by Trattkatt
It could maybe be that it decreases when a new round starts.
I think that is what happens here at move 15
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=376325390

Re: Loosing points in areas/groups

Posted: 14 May 2023, 17:39
by Malo77
I checked but the only decrease i saw is normal:
At move 18 you achieved a full turn with the dice
so the dice value is risen by 1.
This means all apples crops decrease by 1 too.
Note that apples trees not next to you biggest group do not count in total apple tree group size.

Re: Loosing points in areas/groups

Posted: 15 May 2023, 14:38
by nandblock
That is not quite right. You score all groups of one colour at a harvest, not just the biggest group. That said, you generally don't want two disconnected groups of the same colour as they will both score poorly relative to a single bif group, because of the subtraction of the die's pip value from each group.

Re: Loosing points in areas/groups

Posted: 08 June 2025, 15:57
by ginopino39
I noticed the same problem, the values of your apples all reset to 0 even if some have 2 or more. This is particularly bad for end scoring.
The reset happens at the blossom scoring