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I had an Amazon gift card burning a hole in my work inbox and was holding off on using it for games until I was sure I'd have time to play it. I spent it on an expansion to Mascarde and...

Oh My Goods! 2-4 players
This is a card game about making effective production lines while doing ones best to predict the fruitfulness of the market. The key to the game is that the cards have multiple purposes. They can be used as resources, buildings, or goods/money. Each player starts with a building that can produce coal worth one coin each. Every round starts by giving each player 2 more cards (they start with 5). Cards are then drawn and placed in the middle to make a public market until two cards with a half suns appear followed by players deciding which building to working in, how effective to work, and choosing what building to build if any. Next, a second market phase occurs like the first. Finally, each player, in order, uses resources in the market and in hand to produce goods if possible on the building(s) they chose to work in and, if they can afford it, build their chosen building and/or hire an assistant. This continues until a player builds an 8th building. That round is finished and one more round is played. Victory points from buildings, assistants, and coins are totaled and the most points wins.

We played 3 games in total. In the first and last game, Liz was able to crush me with very lucrative production lines. In the second game, I did about as well as my other games, but Liz had a lot of lean years.

We really liked this game, but it would be nice if it was a bit longer to get more use out of some of the harder building to get running. It's possible, with time, that we'll figure out better methods which will make better chains.

Tally: 188/189  Bonus: 59/50