Reading and board games! The little prince: give me a planet (3)

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This game is a jigsaw family game, and the content of the game is based on the plot of the novel. So if you haven't read the novel, you will feel that it is not easy to integrate into this game! Therefore, we require children to read and then finish the game, so that they can understand why the game designer designed this way during the game.

The reason why this game is "easy to understand but difficult to master" is that you have to study both systems. First of all, you have to read and think about the story of the little prince, and understand the meaning of the characters in him. For example, you need to understand the relationship between the little prince and the sheep, the lamplighter and the stars, the gardener and the baobab tree.

Furthermore, you have to understand the logic of board game designers. Although this game is based on the plot of the novel, the elements of the game are also directly based on the characters in the book, and players must pay attention to the relationship between different "planet residents" and "earning points".

Only with these two layers of understanding can players stand out in the game. Not just "unconscious puzzles", "inexplicably lost" or "inexplicably won" when calculating the score.

There are a few players who don't think this game is "fun" or "interesting". The main reason is that, as mentioned above, they do not understand the design logic of the game designer, and they cannot master the game skills at the moment of the game---- For example, choosing one's own powerful card, preventing others from getting his powerful card---- and other factors, after taking the card sixteen times, he spelled out his own planet, but found that the inhabitants of his planet and the planet he formed could not match. , get the necessary score. The leader once asked him the reason, and his answer was: "I don't know why you want to take it like that..." On the contrary, some players, who have read the story of the little prince and understand the game logic, lock a specific "planet" from the beginning of the game. Residents" and "Planet Cards", let him have a lot of fun and addicted to it.

From our observations, we feel that among the currently available combinations of "reading and board games", this game is the best match for the original story. The reason is that the plot, characters, locations, elements, etc. of the game are the same as the original novel, and it also makes people play, just like reading the original novel again.