Table feel
Gobblet has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players need to pay attention to each other's moves frequently. However, there is minimal emphasis on cooperation.
Gobblet
Players
2
Time
?-?
Age
7+
Weight
1.84
Rating
6.62
Fit
Teach
2.6
Teaching signal
Replay
3.9
High replayability
Interaction
3.6
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.0
Scales well
Strategy
4.5
Deep strategy
Control
3.5
More strategic control
Replay value
Gobblet offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, allowing for different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds to the replay value, although their impact may not be as significant. The game also provides deep strategic possibilities and room for players to improve their tactics over time. The player interaction score is moderate, and the game scales well with different numbers of players. While it may take some time to learn, the easiness to learn score is within an acceptable range. Overall, Gobblet has a strong replayability score of 7.79.
Luck profile
Gobblet has a moderate level of randomness impact, with random elements having a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. However, players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning, resulting in a game that is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.
Overview
Gobblet is an abstract game played on a 4x4 grid with each of the two players having twelve pieces that can nest on top of one another to create three stacks of four pieces. Your goal in Gobblet is to place four of your pieces in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. Your pieces start nested off the board. On a turn, you either play one exposed piece from your three off-the-board piles or move one piece on the board to any other spot on the board where it fits. A larger piece can cover any smaller piece. A piece being played from off the board may not cover an opponent's piece unless it's in a row where your opponent has three of his color. Your memory is tested as you try to remember which color one of your larger pieces is covering before you move it. As soon as a player has four like-colored pieces in a row, he wins — except in one case: If you lift your piece and reveal an opponent's piece that finishes a four-in-a-row, you don't immediately lose; you can't return the piece to its starting location, but if you can place it over one of the opponent's three other pieces in that row, the game continues. _______________ Similiar to : Cover Up
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Credits
Designers
1
Thierry Denoual
Publishers
4
Blue Orange (EU)
Blue Orange Games
FoxGames
Gigamic