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Sep 27, 2024·How to play·20:39·0·Watch on YouTube

Strategy Series: game review 1

Alek Erickson

Alek Erickson

Watch “Strategy Series: game review 1,” a how-to-play guide for Tumbleweed from Alek Erickson on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Alek Erickson on YouTube:

Testingqwerty reviews a game he played recently. The game ended up being very instructional. Players who are looking to improve their Tumbleweed strategy for the upcoming Mind Sports Olympiad stand to gain some insight from this one! Our Community https://discord.gg/umhndeQdax (The Game of Tumbleweed Discord server) https://www.facebook.com/groups/376217117130000 (The Game of Tumbleweed Facebook group) Online Play https://boardspace.net/ (real time, human or AI opponent) https://www.iggamecenter.com/ (real time and AI opponent) https://mindsports.nl (correspondence) https://ludii.games/index.php (real time and AI opponent) https://skudpaisho.com/ (real time) http://mrraow.com/index.php/aiai-home/aiai/ (correspondence and AI opponent) https://tumbleweed.4tc.xyz/ (AI opponent) https://boardgamearena.com/ (real time and correspondence) https://www.littlegolem.net/ (correspondence) https://tumbleweed.antontobi.com/play/ (play against AtariBot) Analysis https://tumbleweed.games/ (record of online TW games plus opening explorer) https://tumbleweed.4tc.xyz/ (great board editor tool) http://34.233.90.87:8000/api/analysis/site/ (TumbleBot) Links to TW Articles https://www.abstractgames.org/tumbleweed.html https://www.abstractgames.org/tumbleweed23.html https://www.sasktoday.ca/central/opinion/the-meeple-guild-tumbleweed-is-new-but-interesting-4162200

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Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed

2020·Mike Zapawa

Videos
8
Creators
3

Mainly playthroughs. Tumbleweed is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, and 1 unboxings.

2 players
2 - 200 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Tumbleweed, from BoardGameGeek:

Tumbleweed is a two-player game. It is played on a hexhex board and a sufficient supply of stacked checkers. A stack can "see" a hex, when they are connected by a straight line, with no stacks in between. The players take turns placing stacks of their tokens on hexes that are seen by at least one friendly stack. The height of every newly-placed stack equals the number of your stacks that see the new stack. Replacing an existing stack with a new stack is possible, as long as the new stack is taller than the previous one. This works with opponent stacks (to capture), or your own stacks (to reinforce). Before the game, the host sets up the board and the guest decides which side he wants to play. Setup consists of one stack of two neutral tokens in the central hex, and a single starting token for each player in hexes of the host's choosing. The game ends when no more moves can be made by either player, or after two successive passes. The player who occupies over half the board wins. Tumbleweed was voted Best Combinatorial 2-Player Game of 2020 on BGG.

Designer

Mike Zapawa

Categories

Abstract Strategy

Mechanics

Area Majority / InfluenceHex Grid
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