boardgamevideo
  • Trending
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Channels
  • Lists
  • Shorts

Explore

  • Home
  • Trending
  • Channels
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Lists
  • Shorts
  • Conventions
  • Year in Review

Browse by type

  • Reviews
  • How to play
  • Playthroughs
  • Unboxing
  • Top 100 lists
  • Featured videos
  • Trending this week
  • Rising games
  • Games with fresh review perspectives

Information

  • About
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

© 2022–2026 BoardGameVideo.com

Powered by BGG
  • Videos
  • Trending
  • Shorts
  • Channels
  • Games
  • Lists
Twinkle

Twinkle

2021·Theodore Karvounis

1 - 4 players
15 - 30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

From BoardGameGeek

In Twinkle, the boundless universe comes to your table as you build your own constellation. Having the role of a stellar creator, your task is to decorate the night sky using colorful dice as stars and win the competition among other creators who share the same goal. Choose your star dice carefully, foresee your opponents' moves. and take risks at the right moment in order to claim victory. Over the seven rounds of the game, you form your constellation one die at a time, building off either or both of the "starting stars" on the player board. To set up, roll the six colors of d8 dice, then place them on the central game board. Place the d4, d6, d10, and d12 dice in each of the six colors to the side. On a turn, choose either: One of the d8 dice without changing the value on it Any three dice not previously claimed (with d8 dice being an option), then roll those three dice and choose one of them, returning the other dice to the central game board or the side as appropriate. Place your chosen die in your constellation, either as a star branching off one of your starting stars or as a star branching off a previously placed star. Each starting star and each placed star may have at most two branches off of it, and each placed star must have a lower value than the star from which it's branching off. If a newly placed star has more sides than the star it's branching off of, you immediately score 2 points. Otherwise, you score points only at game's end, with your dice scoing points based on their color. For example, with yellow you score 1, 3 or 6 points for having one, two, or at least three yellow dice. Blue dice are worth only 1 point each, unless two blue dice branch off one star, in which case the pair is worth 4 points. Black dice score based on their sum off each starting star, and red dice based on how many even or odd non-red dice are on the same line. Whoever scores the most points wins. You can also play Twinkle with mission cards that reward the player with the lowest total sum, the fewest types of dice, the fewest colors, and so on, with 1-3 of these mission cards in play as desired.

Twinkle

Watch first

Review

Twinkle Review *A Fun little dice chucker & Drafter*5:31

Twinkle Review *A Fun little dice chucker & Drafter*

Bower's Game Corner

Bower's Game Corner

Watch it played

DGA Plays Board Games: Twinkle38:40

DGA Plays Board Games: Twinkle

Dad's Gaming Addiction

Dad's Gaming Addiction

Which Twinkle video should I watch?

Twinkle has 2 videos from 2 creators: 1 review and 1 playthrough. They date from July to September 2022.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Twinkle Review *A Fun little dice chucker & Drafter*" by Bower's Game Corner. To see it played, watch "DGA Plays Board Games: Twinkle" by Dad's Gaming Addiction.

If you like it, try Lure, Potion Explosion, Raiders of the North Sea or Merchants of Magick: A Set a Watch Tale, which share several of its mechanics.

All videos

Twinkle Review *A Fun little dice chucker & Drafter*Review5:31

Twinkle Review *A Fun little dice chucker & Drafter*

Bower's Game Corner

Bower's Game Corner

DGA Plays Board Games: TwinklePlaythrough38:40

DGA Plays Board Games: Twinkle

Dad's Gaming Addiction

Dad's Gaming Addiction

Creators who cover this

All channels
Bower's Game Corner
Bower's Game Corner
1 video of this game
Dad's Gaming Addiction
Dad's Gaming Addiction
1 video of this game

Games like this

All games

Lure

2024·Satoru Nakamura (中村聡)

Videos
22
Creators
16
Mostly reviews and how-to-play

2 - 5 players·15 min·Light weight

Potion Explosion

2015·Stefano Castelli, Andrea Crespi, Lorenzo Silva

Videos
21
Creators
17
Mainly playthroughs and how-to-play

2 - 4 players·30 - 45 min·Light weight

Raiders of the North Sea

2015·Shem Phillips

Videos
72
Creators
54
Mainly reviews

2 - 4 players·60 - 80 min·Medium weight

Merchants of Magick: A Set a Watch Tale

2021·Clarence Simpson

Videos
40
Creators
30
Mostly reviews and playthroughs

1 - 8 players·45 - 60 min·Medium weight

About Twinkle

From BoardGameGeek:

In Twinkle, the boundless universe comes to your table as you build your own constellation. Having the role of a stellar creator, your task is to decorate the night sky using colorful dice as stars and win the competition among other creators who share the same goal. Choose your star dice carefully, foresee your opponents' moves. and take risks at the right moment in order to claim victory. Over the seven rounds of the game, you form your constellation one die at a time, building off either or both of the "starting stars" on the player board. To set up, roll the six colors of d8 dice, then place them on the central game board. Place the d4, d6, d10, and d12 dice in each of the six colors to the side. On a turn, choose either: One of the d8 dice without changing the value on it Any three dice not previously claimed (with d8 dice being an option), then roll those three dice and choose one of them, returning the other dice to the central game board or the side as appropriate. Place your chosen die in your constellation, either as a star branching off one of your starting stars or as a star branching off a previously placed star. Each starting star and each placed star may have at most two branches off of it, and each placed star must have a lower value than the star from which it's branching off. If a newly placed star has more sides than the star it's branching off of, you immediately score 2 points. Otherwise, you score points only at game's end, with your dice scoing points based on their color. For example, with yellow you score 1, 3 or 6 points for having one, two, or at least three yellow dice. Blue dice are worth only 1 point each, unless two blue dice branch off one star, in which case the pair is worth 4 points. Black dice score based on their sum off each starting star, and red dice based on how many even or odd non-red dice are on the same line. Whoever scores the most points wins. You can also play Twinkle with mission cards that reward the player with the lowest total sum, the fewest types of dice, the fewest colors, and so on, with 1-3 of these mission cards in play as desired.

Designer

Theodore Karvounis

Artists

Thomas Kestis, Giorgos Vassos

Publisher

V Games

Categories

Abstract StrategyDice

Mechanics

ContractsDice RollingPattern Recognition
View on BoardGameGeek ›
Home
Games
Twinkle
cached: 318559