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Gizmos

spectacular inventions

Scientists construct Gizmos, or, more closely, spectacular inventions of bizarre purposes. Gizmo cards as templates for the inventions are displayed, such cards under your player board are deemed to be active. In an equally spectacular dispenser, you have 52 energy marbles in six colors; six random marbles form the energy display. Player dashboards have areas for placing upgrade, converter, file, pick and build gizmos, and show starting values for storage limit, file limit and research amount.

In your turn, you have one action out of four options: File - Take a Gizmo card from the display into your own archive area; Pick - take an energy marble from the row at the dispenser and put it into your own energy ring; Build - Construct a Gizmo from the display or from your own archive by discarding energy marbles and taking the card and putting into the respective area below your dashboard; Research - You draw Gizmo cards according to your research amount from one of the three Level decks and select one to File or Build.

Gizmos that have been built have effects; actions trigger them, each Gizmo can be used once in your turn. If someone has build four Gizmos of Level III or a total of 16 Gizmos, you score - at the end of the round - active Gizmos and acquired victory point markers.

Seems like a standard set collecting mechanism at the start, but relatively quickly your active Gizmos start to interact for thrilling, challenging and very efficient chain reaction, resulting in explosive results, very often for a fast end of the game. Clever, unusual and of high replay allure.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Phil Walker-Harding

Artist: Team

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: CMON / Asmodee 2019

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Set collecting, engine-building

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: cn de en es fr hu it kr pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Sturdy marble dispenser

Short duration

Little direct interaction

Well-working engine-builder

Compares to:

Century Die Gewürzstraße, Potion Explosion

Other editions:

Asmodee (it), BoardM Factory (kr), Broadway Toys (cn), CMON (en, fr) Delta Vision (hu), Edge Entertainment (es), Portal Games (pl)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0