Let’s grab your favorite towel, some sunscreen, a great bathing suit and head to the beach on this bright and sunny day. We will search for treasures far and wide and see who’s collection is the best when we compete to build the best pile compared to your friends and family!
Seashells is a new game from Kids Table Board Games designed by Bruno Faidutti with art from Christopher Chan. It plays 2-5 players in 20 mins.
Overview:
In Seashells, players will take turns picking up different colored seashells and items from the beach and arrange them in your collection by shape and color to score the most points!
Gameplay:
In Seashells, the game is set up with a beach-themed grid or path on the table and a collection of seashell tokens representing different treasures from the ocean such as conches, starfish, scallops, clams, and more in multiple colors.
Players take turns in clockwise order. On a player’s turn, they advance the bucket and picking up a beach item. These collected shells are added to the player’s individual collection board based on the shape and the color. The seashell tokens differ by both shape and color, and these differences influence scoring at the end of the game.
The game continues with players taking turns moving their bucket and gathering an item in the row or column where their bucket lands. The game will continue until there are no items in the row and column where the bucket is meaning there is no legal spot to move it to. At the end of the game, players score points based on the composition of their collected seashells.
Scoring is determined by majority control in specific shell shapes and colors; players with the most of each of the different shell types or color sets receive the highest points. There’s seven colors and seven shell types, so you need to find ways to lean into some of them more than other players. You will also score your completed fossil pairs ands sand dollars. The player with the highest total score from their collected shells wins the game!
Impressions:
Seashells is a really fun game that is easy to understand and easy to teach which has made it another great example of games that are friendly for all but still strategic for gamers. When you are looking for a game that would be great for parents and kids to play together, this is definitely one that would be a great selection!
I love the theme, any beach and ocean-themed games are often ones I will lean into. The style has a very whimsical art look and just presents well on the table.
For the set-collection mechanic, it’s pretty straight-forward making it easy to understand and play into. The secret cards you have can mess with knowing what people truly have but that’s a small factor of surprise. My wife and I really enjoy it as a two player back-and-forth game, it plays well head to head.
Overall I will recommend this one for anyone who is looking for a fun little set collection game that is a good time for the whole family. So grab your towel and sunscreen and let’s hit the beach in search of a few Seashells!
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