The person with the most points wins the game. The game offers a variety of strategy through the use of huts and civ cards. This game felt like I was playing a combination of Settlers resource gathering , Agricola placing workers instead of orders , and Ticket to Ride scoring.
This game definitely ranks up there with the best family games see note below. It only takes about minutes to teach new people how to play.
My only wish is that the resources were made of the actual stuff they are supposed to represent. The gold bars could just be plated of course. I have owned Stone Age for nearly a year, and I like it quite a bit. It may seem odd to write a review a year after the fact, but I just played it again last night with my wife and five year old daughter and wanted to say a few words.
This was the first worker placement game I have introduced my daughter to, and I thought that this one would be a good intro. You gain victory points by spending the resources you gather to buy tiles and development cards. Players take turns placing one or more workers on spaces on the board. After all workers are placed, you check for earning resources by rolling a die for each worker plaed on a spot, and divide it by the number given.
This makes food and wood relatively easy to gather, and stone and gold significantly harder. There are also action spaces where you may gain a new worker, create a food income, or buy a development card or a tile.
With my daughter, we chose to eliminate the cards and the tool tiles tiles you may use to improve dice rolls. We explained the division by telling her to make sets of numbers.
For instance, gathering wood has you divide by three, so we told her to make sets of three. This is much, much easier to explain than division! She caught on quick and enjoyed it quite a bit. To sum up, I like the game. It is by far the simplest of the worker placement games compare to Agricola, Caylus, Pillars of the Earth or Keythedral. A five year old is not quite ready to play it fully, but the fact that none of the play requires reading make this one to definitely try with the kids.
Stone Age is a simplistic worker-placement type game where each round players take turns placing their meeples on the board to obtain various resources, food, huts, cards, or improving your village.
At the end of each round, you need to feed your people at a cost of one food per meeple. When acquiring resources, you roll dice equal to your number of meeples, and divide by some value which increases for rarer resources to see how many of a resource you get.
Resources are spent to purchase cards or huts, which give you points. The artwork of the game is great, and the components are pretty good. It comes with a soft dice cup for rolling the dice, which fits the theme of stone age well, but is really soft and a little flimsy. For more avid gamers, there are better worker-placement games out there that can replace this. Pros: -Simplistic rules for easy play -Rules scale the game well for players -Great introduction to worker-placement style games.
Cons: -Requires doing math in your head when collecting resources and rolling dice division and addition -Too simplistic for more avid gamers. I would say this is great for kids. Also it shows clearly how farming, rather than nomadic living, would have led to creating civilizations. However, finding the best strategy to winning this game is not always the way to have the most fun with this game. I prefer to try something new every time I play. For example: while agricultural farming is probably the best way to keep your people from dying, it makes the food tokens in this game virtually worthless, and also tends to make the game less exciting when all of your food needs are met without making an effort every turn.
Civilization cards: just make certain that you watch the symbols on the bottom of the card. You should always go for the easily purchased card if you can nab it from the other players. Otherwise, match the cards to whatever end goal your striving for, be it tribesmen, huts, agriculture, etc. OR, attempt to get complete sets of 8 of the different icons with the green backgrounds. People: If you can, place a couple of tribesmen in a hut. Huts: While this ticks away towards the end clearing out one of the piles of huts ends the game , this is a major way to add victory points during the game.
Stone Age works really well for 2, 3 or 4 players. With online play available yucata. A worker-placement resource-management game with a bit of randomness thrown in, in the form of different huts and cards to purchase, and the dice rolls, naturally , there are a lot of options available within the seemingly limited board locations.
There are a number of different, viable strategies you can use to win, and which you choose will often be influenced by how many players there are, and who you are playing with. With tools to help minimize the luck factor of the dice, extra workers to give you more gathering power every turn, and some fierce competition for powerful cards and valuable huts, the game can get very tense as you wait to see what your opponents choose to do.
Stone Age has been a group favorite in my play group since it was purchased a long while ago. Stone Age was the board game that introduced me and my family to worker placement. We love it. The game components are excellent. The rules are simple, yet provide multiple pathways to victory.
There are enough random elements to make the game infinitely replayable. In Stone Age, each player is developing a prehistoric village. It is 10, years ago and mankind is just learning the skills of agriculture. As the game progresses, you can improve your knowledge of agriculture and lessen your dependence on foraging and hunting thus allowing more time on cultural development and resource collection.
Resources in the game are wood, brick, stone and gold. These resources are used to construct new buildings and develop cultural advances such as writing and medicine. Cultural advances score points during the final scoring while each building you construct scores points equal to the resources spent in its construction.
The tools are used to modify dice rolls which determine the amount of resources your workers produce. I would give Stone Age a Moderate rating for complexity, but barely so. There are a lot of choices to be made each turn, but the mechanics are simple making it almost a Light game. One flaw I see is the Agriculture track.
While improving your agriculture is an option, doing so is so essential that it becomes the automatic action for the first player. Overall, Stone Age is an awesome game and an excellent way to introduce new gamers to worker placement.
This is the game that competes as a gateway against Lords of Waterdeeep in my gaming groups. The board is colorful, language independent and with the exception of one icon normally easy to understand. The dice chucking for resource management adds just the right amount of tension to make each turn a little more fun for most of my friends. There seem to be a few places where the first workers go all the time. Remind new players of this too.
What she likes best is the the strategy of where you are going to place your meeples. She likes that there is multiple ways to win. You can focus on buying huts or spending resources to buy cards that multiply your points from tools, or huts or meeples. Each game can be different depending on what the other players strategies are.
So the replay value is high. With each round, the target ball advances on the course, and when the end of the course is reached, the team with the most points wins. These Oldowan toolkits include hammerstones, stone cores, and sharp stone flakes. By about 1. When all players have taken all their people figures back to their player board, they must feed their people. Each people figure requires 1 food.
The Stone Age marks a period of prehistory in which humans used primitive stone tools. Lasting roughly 2. Stones is a two-player game featured prominently in the Wheel of Time universe. It seems to be played much like Go, where each player is assigned one of two colors of army. It was released in by publisher Rio Grande Games.
The box originally contained 25 sets of Kingdom Cards and Basic Supply Cards to support up to 4 players. While Stone Age people had various scrapers, hand axes, and other stone tools, the most common — and possibly most important — were spears and arrows. Both of these were what we call composite tools, because they were made of more than one material. Oldowan stone tools are simply the oldest recognisable tools which have been preserved in the archaeological record.
There is a flourishing of Oldowan tools in eastern Africa, spreading to southern Africa, between 2. The main designer of this project is Bernd Brunnhofer. He was born in July 27, in Graz, Austria. He is a game designer and publisher. He lives in Munich. The main artist of the «Stone Age» is Michael Menzel.
He was born in He used to make illustrations for family and adult games. Now he is happy to create arts for children games. Here are the contents:. In «Stone Age» players collect lots of different resources like stone, gold and etc. They can expand villages, feed their tribes and sell resources and to develop civilization. Here we will take a look at the basic points of rules such as rounds, phases and etc. The first player places one or more figures on the location he chooses.
Then the next player does the same and so on. It continues until all the players place their figures on the board. Each location has a certain number of circles. They indicate the maximum number of figures that may be placed there. A player never place figures on a location where he already has figures. Each player takes actions corresponding to their figures in a clockwise order. A player chooses the order he wants to take the action. In this way, a player will have all of the figures back on their player board.
When each player has taken back all of the figures on the game board they must feed their tribes. Each figure needs 1 food. If a player does not have enough food to feed all of her figures: The player must first use all the food has.
The player takes the card and pays the number of resources. Paid resources are returned into respective supply. The player takes the building and pays the resources. Paid resources are returned into their respective supply.
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