Pollen AKA Samurai: The Card Game — How to Play 🎲 and Is It a Gem? 💎

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Based on the VERY well-respected board game Samurai (1998 Hans im Glück), designer Reiner Knizia shrunk the action down into a square-card game in, you guessed it, Samurai: The Card Game (2009 Rio Grande/Abacus). Players play cards to a checkerboard-like grid, trying to surround scoring cards to gain victory tokens of three types. Samurai scoring is special: You have to lead in one type to win, but your score is the number of tokens of OTHER types you have! A new version moves the action from the abstract to the garden: Pollen (2023 Allplay). This new version is slimmed down in all ways except gameplay. 00:00 Intro ▶️ 02:58 How to Play 🎲 12:07 Is It a Gem? 💎 Board Gems highlights older board and card games that are still great games today, and deserve to not be forgotten! Join & Support: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX9Ab6egkU1ru3sgP8TUI2A/join Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/booned BGG Blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/10011 BGG New Videos List: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/276559/ BGG Requests & Suggestions List: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/279371/ Brought to you by Pizzeria Ludica! https://www.ludica.ca/ BGG Listing: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35634/samurai-the-card-game https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/369898/pollen Background Music: Mama Aiuto, Daphné - Lax Incense https://chll.to/6d4b5068 #boardgames #tabletop #vancouver #ludica