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2026 After 2 games. This is a game of building up custom tracks and combo-ing between them when activating them on your turn. The tiles may look like dominoes from afar but they are not. Neither are they Mahjongg tiles. I bought this for the solo but so far I am not sure if I am playing things right. I definitely made mistakes in my first game. The solo bot seems to put up a high tempo in gaining recognition tiles for the tracks. And once it has gained a tile for a track, the player cannot gain one. Once 5 recognitions are gained by a player, the game is over. There are 5 track recognitions to gain and 4 animal figure recognitions. The bot is super fast: the second or third time a player activates a track and gains a tile during that turn, the bot will gain the recognition for that track. And once the bot has it, the player who needs to have at least 4 tiles to gain a recognition on a track, can no longer get one. What I am unsure about is wether the actual tracks and combos are going to be satisfying to build up in a solo. The only actual combo-ing I see is going up the animal tracks. I have a lot of doubts about multiplayer. The variety of tiles and actions on them seems low to me. But I have no intention of putting multiplayer to the test anyway. Rating: 7

• 2026: Yashima's Game Diary
  This is a game of building up custom tracks and combo-ing between them when activating them on your turn. The tiles may look like dominoes from afar but they are not. Neither are they Mahjongg tiles. I bought this for the solo but so far I am not sure if I am playing things right. I definitely made mistakes in my first game. The solo bot seems to put up a high tempo in gaining recognition tiles for the tracks. And once it has gained a tile for a track, the player cannot gain one. Once 5 recognitions are gained by a player, the game is over. There are 5 track recognitions to gain and 4 animal figure recognitions. The bot is super fast: the second or third time a player activates a track and gains a tile during that turn, the bot will gain the recognition for that track. And once the bot has it, the player who needs to have at least 4 tiles to gain a recognition on a track, can no longer get one. What I am unsure about is wether the actual tracks and combos are going to be satisfying to build up in a solo. The only actual combo-ing I see is going up the animal tracks. I have a lot of doubts about multiplayer. The variety of tiles and actions on them seems low to me. But I have no intention of putting multiplayer to the test anyway. * Player Count: 1 * My current rating: a very provisionary one * Total Lifetime Plays: 2 * Rules Retention: Probably good enough. The solo could be explained better. The rules make it needlessly opaque. * Keeper: Probably. Building up custom tracks is a bit unique and the solo might still grow on me. * Recommended: Fans of tracks or fans of painted Japanese dolls (the theme is paper-thin however) * Competition: Let's Go to Japan (theme), Mahjongg (clickety clackety tiles), Planet Unknown (combo-y tracks?) (I will need to revise this entry when I have played more)
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