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Apr 3, 2022·Review·18:01·1·Watch on YouTube

Jason’s Board Game Diagnostics of Mai-Star

The Boardgame Mechanics

The Boardgame Mechanics

Watch “Jason’s Board Game Diagnostics of Mai-Star,” a board game review for Mai-Star from The Boardgame Mechanics on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by The Boardgame Mechanics on YouTube:

#JasonReviews #BoardgameMechanics #MaiStar 0:00 - Intro 0:07 - Title Screen 0:25 - Description of the Game 1:25 - Gameplay Overview 16:04 - Final Thoughts 17:47 - Credits A card game about Japanese geisha by Seiji Kanai. Players take the roles of various geisha, and compete with the other players to win the legendary title of "Mai-Star". Use the characters surrounding you to increase your popularity, and earn money by attracting guests, the more demanding the better. Focusing only on increasing your popularity won't earn you any money, yet failing to spread your name won't make the rich or helpful guests come your way. It's a matter of deciding which characters (cards) will help you increase your popularity and which character cards you want to attract as guests. Once a player runs out of cards, the round is over, and all cards remaining in your hand become minus points, thus depleting your hand of cards quickly is important. Only the one who has attracted the richest guests (earned the most money) after three festival nights (rounds) will be the one who deserves to carry the title of "Mai-Star". This game's setting is same as Master Merchant. —description from the publisher For more information about Mai-Star: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/75789/mai-star To check out a little bit of everything that we do visit our website at: https://www.bgmechanics.com Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theboardgamechanics Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/boardgamemechanics Tweet at us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bgmechs If you would be interested in having us review/preview a game, or just want to chat, shoot us an email at: contact@bgmechanics.com

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Mai-Star

Mai-Star

2010·Seiji Kanai

3 - 6 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Mai-Star, from BoardGameGeek:

A card game about Japanese geisha by Seiji Kanai. Players take the roles of various geisha, and compete with the other players to win the legendary title of "Mai-Star". Use the characters surrounding you to increase your popularity, and earn money by attracting guests, the more demanding the better. Focusing only on increasing your popularity won't earn you any money, yet failing to spread your name won't make the rich or helpful guests come your way. It's a matter of deciding which characters (cards) will help you increase your popularity and which character cards you want to attract as guests. Once a player runs out of cards, the round is over, and all cards remaining in your hand become minus points, thus depleting your hand of cards quickly is important. Only the one who has attracted the richest guests (earned the most money) after three festival nights (rounds) will be the one who deserves to carry the title of "Mai-Star". This game's setting is same as Master Merchant.

Designer

Seiji Kanai

Artists

Conceptopolis, Jason Engle, Anthony Francisco, Aurélien Hubert, Greg Lambrakis, April Lee, Jorge Matar, Jake Murray and 6 more

Publisher

Alderac Entertainment Group

Categories

Card Game

Mechanics

Hand ManagementVariable Player Powers
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