Bosk

Today's review is of the 2019 release, Bosk. For 2-4 players, it takes 20-40 minutes.

Overview

Bosk is a game about trees and seasons.

- In the spring, you 'plant' your trees by placing them (in turn order) on grid intersections on the game board. Each tree has a number on it that denotes its point value. 

- In the summer, you score each row (and then column) by adding up the tree point values per player in each and assigning points accordingly.

- In the fall, your trees drop their leaves in accordance with wind direction (which changes) and cards that let you pick how many leaves you drop on a given turn. You can pay extra leaves to place your leaf on top of others.

- In the winter, you score each area by adding up the number of leaves per player in that area and assigning points accordingly.

game in progress; image from here

Review

Meh. This game is decently rated on boardgamegeek, and gets good marks from my go-to game reviewers. But I wasn't enthralled with it. It is simple and well made, but I found it hard to strategize with the leaf dropping in particular (the changing wind direction was an extra variable that made planning difficult). I might have to give this another go or two, but I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped.

Rating: B-