How to setup and play Stone Age!

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Amazon Affiliate link: https://amzn.to/46I2MzU Hello everyone, and welcome to Whose Turn! In this video, I'll be showing you how to setup and play Stone Age. Stone Age is a 2 to 4 player worker placement game, and takes around 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on the number of players. It's also one of my favorite games I've ever played! It's a great intro game into table top games that need strategy. Let's get it setup! First, take out the board, and player mats for the number of players. I set this up for three players. Then, choose a color, and play 5 workers on your player board in front of you. Take the other 5 and set them to the side of your board, but in a spot that clearly makes it so they are not in play. There are two cubes for each color. The small will go on the Wheat tracker, and the larger of the two will go on the number 0 to keep score. Next, shuffle the cards and place 1 on each of the 4 locations in the bottom right of the board. Place the remainder next to the board. Likewise, shuffle ALL the huts and place them in piles of 7, 1 for each player. If there are 2 players, it would be 2 stacks, and the other huts would not be used. Take out the food and resources, placing them in their respective areas on the board. Each player gets 12 food to start. Technically the youngest player starts, but we like to play that the person with the LEAST amount of experience gets to go last, so they can see the most turns before theirs. Likewise, if all people playing are experienced, we like to do this: ROLL ALL 7 DICE! High score goes first. Players will take turns in a clockwise fashion placing their workers on the board. They place their workers on the spot on the board they would like to focus on, be it gathering resources building huts, or increasing the size of their village. When choosing to place workers on resources: For each worker on the resource, you get to roll one die. So if you place 3 workers on wood, you roll three dice. Each player board shows the denominator for how to get the resource. You always divide by that number and round down. You can place as many workers at once onto a resource, so you can put 4 workers on wood for your turn. Resources have two special rules, only 7 workers MAX can be on the location at a time, and only the number of players minus one can be on a resource. So if there are two players, only 1 player can be on wood at a given time. When choosing to place a worker in the village: The village has a special rule like resources where only the number of spots can be filled as there are players minus one. So in a 3 player game, only 2 of the 3 can be filled. It doesn't matter which 2, but once filled there can be no more. This makes the village extra special to go into. The Wheat field increases your wheat tracker by one, the love shack makes another worker, and the tool hut increases your tool count by 1. Tools increase all dice rolls by the number showing, and you can use multiple. So if you have 3 level 1 tools, you can add 1, 2, or 3 to any roll, but only once per round. They reset with board reset. However, if you have a 3, 3, and a 2, you cannot add only 1 to a dice roll, the lowest you could would be 2. Building huts: In order to build a hut, you need to place a worker on the hut you wish to purchase. Once you start taking back the workers, you can purchase the hut if you have the resources. You then immediately score that many points. Buying cards: In order to buy a card, you need to place a worker on the card you wish to purchase. The cost of the cards are number 1 through 4, and depending on where they are on the board is their price. These cards have both an upper and lower action. The upper is an instant and needs to be resolved immediately. The lower action is a multiplier of sorts and is scored at the end of the game. Once all the workers have been placed out by all the players, players then start to take them back starting with the first player. They can take their workers back in any order. So they can increase their tool count, to roll better on wood, in order to buy a card. It's up to the player to do so. If the player cannot perform an action, such as build a hut they are on or buy a card, then they do not do so and just return the worker. You then reset the board by replacing any cards purchased, and flip up any huts. Move the first player marker, and reset any tools used. This continues until either 1 stack of the builder huts is depleted, in which case the round finishes up and scores counted. Or, if players are unable to refill the card section on the board at the end of the round. Players then add all their totals based on their cards, and see who wins. And that's Stone Age! Let me know if you have any questions on comments on the video, and I really hope you enjoy it. Have fun playing!