
2024Ta-Te Wu
Mainly reviews. Aqua is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 6 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, and 1 unboxings.
From BoardGameGeek
You and your fellow player are curators who want to create the best set-up for a new water-themed exhibit at your art museum. One of you believes very strongly in the power of vertical alignment, while the other argues that the focus should be on horizontal structure. You each take turns placing the paintings in the exhibit, and once you've finished, you earn presentation points for the horizontal or vertical groupings of the artwork. When the exhibition ends, the curator with the most points wins! In more detail, in Aqua, players take turns placing painting cards in the museum, with cards being placed face down when they're adjacent to face-up cards, and vice versa. When a face-down card is surrounded, flip it face up. When someone plays a face-up boat, each player moves a visitor token up to three spaces from that card, with each visitor token adding 1 point to the card on which it stands. Players score points by strategically aligning cards with matching icons and numbers in each row or column, with one player scoring the columns at game's end and the other scoring the rows - but these lines score only if they're valued from 10-20 points, so don't concentrate too much artistic power in one line!
Aqua has 10 videos from 10 creators: 6 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides and 1 unboxing. They date from 2023 to May 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "All the Games with Steph: Aqua" by Steph Hodge, which runs 25 min. For a quicker teach, "Aqua Preview - Have Water, Will Flow" by GameEnthus runs 8 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Water My Thoughts - My Thoughts on Aqua" by Merry Married Meeples. 6 creators have reviewed it.
If you like it, try FORK, 1-2-3 Cheese!, Cat's Gambit and Cat Sudoku: Summer Festival, also by Ta-Te Wu.
8 of 10
2024Ta-Te Wu
2 - 5 players10 - 20 minLight weight
2023Ta-Te Wu
1 players10 - 20 minLight weight
2025Ta-Te Wu
1 - 4 players15 - 20 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
You and your fellow player are curators who want to create the best set-up for a new water-themed exhibit at your art museum. One of you believes very strongly in the power of vertical alignment, while the other argues that the focus should be on horizontal structure. You each take turns placing the paintings in the exhibit, and once you've finished, you earn presentation points for the horizontal or vertical groupings of the artwork. When the exhibition ends, the curator with the most points wins! In more detail, in Aqua, players take turns placing painting cards in the museum, with cards being placed face down when they're adjacent to face-up cards, and vice versa. When a face-down card is surrounded, flip it face up. When someone plays a face-up boat, each player moves a visitor token up to three spaces from that card, with each visitor token adding 1 point to the card on which it stands. Players score points by strategically aligning cards with matching icons and numbers in each row or column, with one player scoring the columns at game's end and the other scoring the rows - but these lines score only if they're valued from 10-20 points, so don't concentrate too much artistic power in one line!
Designer
Ta-Te Wu
Artist
Ta-Te Wu
Publisher
Sunrise Tornado Game Studio
Categories
Mechanics