fachwerk

Fachwerk is a tile-laying game for tablets and phones – and above all a game for the table: up to four people play on ONE tablet, each corner rotated toward its player, everyone placing at the same time. HOW IT PLAYS Each round the guildmaster names a resource. Everyone receives it and places it on their own 4x4 board. Complete the pattern of a card on the table and you trade those resources for a building. Every building scores differently: the croft wants provisions, the mead hall compares itself with your neighbour, the moongrain oven likes red roofs. In the end the densest, cleverest hamlet wins – empty squares cost you. ONE DEVICE OR MANY Two players need one device. With three or four the tablet becomes the table – or everyone takes their own device: the host opens a room, the others join by scanning a QR code. The devices talk to each other directly, with no account and no…