A little holiday festivities seem in order this week! Our featured game will be Reindeer Games, a whimsical take on the traditional worker-placement board game. Players manage a team of reindeer tasked with supplying the North Pole for Christmas. Designed by Andrew Butler, who you may know from Octopush, this game is not only appropriate for the season, but it’s surprisingly strategic and fun!
The game utilizes a unique twist on the standard worker-placement mechanic where the actions of one player’s “workers” can frequently benefit their opponents.
- Objective: Players aim to earn the highest candy payout before Christmas by gathering supplies and flying sleigh-shipments to the North Pole.
- Worker Placement with a Twist: Unlike many games where placing a worker blocks others, in Reindeer Games, placing a deer/worker can often be turned to an opponent’s advantage.
- Resource Management: Players are often at the mercy of their opponents to have their reindeer returned to them, which is necessary to set up large scoring opportunities.
- Juergen the Lazy Reindeer: A specific character, Juergen the Yellow-nose reindeer (a character legally distinct from any other reindeer with a colored-nose), serves a unique role that allow players to use to use to gain points and/or disrupt their opponents’ industries.
And in the spirit of giving, we’ve got a lot of prizes lined up for prize drawings every hour (must be present to win). At the end of the night, we’ll also be giving away a copy of First Rat!
Our Monthly Board Game Giveaway is provided courtesy of
Riftgate Games
5412 S 900 E, Murray, UT 84117
Use discount code ‘goosegames‘ in-store or
online at riftgate.com to save 10% of board games and puzzles.