#UNBOXING Gorinto, an elegant abstract tile-laying game, one of the best new board games of 2021

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Take a look at what you get in the production version of Grointo, an abstract strategy game featuring stacking plastic tiles. Place a tile to collect one or more tiles, each tile you collect increases your knowledge in the five elements, the more knowledge you have the more tiles you can collect. Scoring happens every season and what you score changes every game. Gorinto was designed by Richard Yaner and published by Grand Gamers Guild in 2021, after a Kickstarter success in 2020. If you dig our content be sure to subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/tabletopbellhop?sub_confirmation=1 and consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tabletopbellhop Disclosure: I was sent a production copy of Gorinto from Grand Gamers Guild as a thank you for doing a preview of the game before their Kickstarter went live. ******************** Index: 00:00:00 INTRO 00:01:27 UNBOXING 00:14:06 FINAL THOUGHTS ******************** From the publisher, Elements gather energy in unique patterns, challenging you with finding the ideal route to balance and harmony. Earth digs deep, Water flows wide, Fire rises high, Wind blows freely, and Void slips between the rest. Can you gain the understanding you need to uncover true elemental wisdom? A Gorinto is a type of Japanese pagoda of the five elements: earth (cube), water (sphere), fire (pyramid), air (crescent), and void (lotus). It often housed the relic of a Buddha or saint, and together represent the realm of perfect understanding. In Gorinto, players take turns selecting element tiles from the Path (perimeter) and moving them onto the Mountain (game board). Each element collects in a unique pattern. The elements collected each turn will allow you to collect more elements over the turns and rounds. Points are scored at the end of each round based on goals selected at the start of the game, as well as the elements chosen at the end of the game. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. Will you achieve perfect understanding? ******************** Links: Head over to the Tabletop Bellhop blog where you'll find more tabletop gaming content, including gaming and game night advice, reviews, and more: https://tabletopbellhop.com Check out my preview of Gorinto on the blog. While the components have gotten better everything I say about the gameplay has not changed: https://tabletopbellhop.com/game-reviews/gorinto-preview/ Pick up your own copy of Gorinto on Amazon (affiliate): https://amzn.to/3g07cue Find us all over the web: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tabletopbellhop Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabletopbellhop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopbellhop Twitch: https://twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop