![]() ![]() #PERIODIC TABLE CHEMISTRY BOARD GAME FREE#Activating a single card is free (and nets you any energy tokens that are present), but you can activate more by spending energy tokens, which get placed on the trends for future retrieval. Each turn, you will pick which of the ‘Periodic Trend’ cards you will activate, and that card will tell you how you can move your flask. ![]() How you move your pieces across the table is a neat action selection mechanic. But there is a simple brilliance to the design that makes it so easy to engage and lots of fun besides. Now, we should probably say right here that Periodic is a pretty darn abstract game in most ways – you’re really just moving your piece across the board, trying to be more efficient and effective than your fellow scientists at tagging the elements needed to make the compounds which will score you points. ‘Agenda’ cards also give you bonus scoring opportunities at the end of the game Periodic is all about who can manage to complete goal cards faster, thus securing victory. The goal of Periodic is to end the game with the most points, and the main way you’ll earn them is by moving your flask across the game board – a candy-colorful periodic table – in order to research elements and create compounds, which will result in a pile of points when completed. So, having spoiled my impressions of Periodic, let’s take a brief look at its mechanics. We got a review copy of Periodic from Genius Games. With Periodic, designers John Coveyou and Paul Salomon try to combine the elements of educational, scientific concepts, set completion, and easy, engaging gameplay, and have ended up synthesizing what might be my favorite Genius Games title yet! Surprisingly beautiful, given the subject matter ![]() Periodic: A Game of Elements is one of the latest title from Genius Games, a company that has always striven to merge real science with fun gameplay (often to solid results). ![]()
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