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Main Catalogue | BOARD GAMES & CARD GAMES | Mayfair Games | Oceania

Oceania

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Board Game, 1-2 Players, Ages 10+ by Mayfair Games Experience the adventure of exploring unknown islands! Each game presents new and unique challenges, for the board is different every time you play. In the 2-player variant, you and your opponent seek to claim the biggest islands in Oceania. The most successful explorer is the victor! Or you can be your own opponent in the solo variant. You will seek out larger, more valuable islands as the game challenges you to beat your own record score! Oceania is the smaller—but no less exciting—brother of the classic Klaus Teuber game “Entdecker®,” also published by Mayfair Games. ++++++++++++ Counter review ++++++++++++ 1-2 players, 15 minutes designed by Klaus Teuber reviewed by Ben Baldanza Entdecker-Cassonne would be an apt sound bite for this little brother to Klaus Teuber\'s Entdecker. The game looks and feels like its bigger kin, but is simpler and plays fast. Players build up the board by placing tiles that show both land and sea. After placing a tile, a scout marker can be placed in an attempt to score if the island is ultimately completed. Every completed island scores for the player with the most scouts on it, and that player scores one point for each tile used to create the island. Most points wins, and several games can be played with scores cumulated for a more balanced match. The small board contains 35 spaces in a five by seven grid, with ``access points\'\' initially on three of the four sides. Like Entdecker, each turn a player places the ship on a space from which a tile can be added. The player draws a tile, and places it from the ship space so that land matches land and water matches water. If the tile cannot be placed, the player must place it in front of them. This can be helpful if it happens early, but punitive when it happens late. This is because instead of drawing a tile, a player can, at the cost of a scout, place a tile that earlier was held back. In order to ensure a completion of an island, or to block off a potential merger with your opponent\'s scouts, this can be quite helpful. But at game end each tile still in front of you costs two points. Also like Entdecker, the game has a set of tiles used to ``fill in\'\' when needed. Any time a single space is closed in with tiles or the edge of the board, it is filled in with the tile that fits. Managing these fill-ins is important and can help to get some small island scores early on. Also, any time a space is fully enclosed with only land facing the enclosure (meaning there is no path for the ship to sail into the enclosure), it is filled in with land. The most significant aspect of the design is the fact that the top of the board has no entry points for the ship. This has the effect of quickly making certain parts of the board very difficult to reach, and correspondingly risky to deploy scouts. It also can break down by creating an enormous island and skewing the game, but this is less frequent. More readily, this fact makes the placement of each tile critical as not only must the island creation be considered, but also the tile\'s ability to allow further exploration. The scout marker limit is well considered. Each player has a total of 12 scouts, but these are portioned among just eight markers - five singles, two doubles, and one triple. Since playing a once-unplayable tile requires losing a scout, it is important to keep some of the singles back. But stranding your triple on an island that never finishes can be painful too. Overall, the game plays well and has a nice depth for the time it takes. It can certainly break down, though, through the forced creation of a mega-island and also by forcing negative points when there is only a single place for the ship to sail. At that point, it\'s a guessing game to get the right tile. Still, the game is fun and fans of Entdecker (original or new) who like two-player games will feel right at home.

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