Table feel
Lumberjack has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to and react to each other's actions. However, there is less emphasis on cooperation in the game.
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Lumberjack
Players
2-5
Time
?-?
Age
8+
Weight
1.47
Rating
5.72
Fit
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
3.9
High replayability
Interaction
3.7
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.2
Scales well
Strategy
4.5
Deep strategy
Control
2.8
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
Lumberjack has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, expansions available, strategic depth, scalability, and moderate easiness to learn. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with the potential for new tactics and strategies to be discovered. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, further enhancing the replay value. The game adapts well to different player counts without compromising its appeal or balance. While it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the investment.
Luck profile
Lumberjack has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements like dice rolls or card draws have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While there is some room for players to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, luck still plays a significant role. The game has a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with the outcome being influenced by both player decisions and luck.
Overview
Woodcutters compete in their annual Lumberjack game where they use real timber as components. In preparation for the game someone has spray-painted 100 logs in 5 different colors, and stacked them in a huge round tower with layers of 6 logs arranged randomly. A player takes a free log from the tower and uses it to build his own tower. Each player may only construct 3 towers and only the bottom log of each tower may touch the table. When a player feels he cannot extend a tower any further he can crown it with a white cap. This prevents any further building on that tower and ensures double scoring. (After scoring the topmost piece is removed.) When all logs from the central tower has been used, there is final scoring, and the woodcutter with the most points wins a brand-new chain saw. Also included are 3 variants: "Easy Going": The players build up to 5 individual towers, but each of only a single color. The base may be formed from more than one log, but cannot be expanded after the next level has been started. Scoring is for the highest tower in each color at the end of the game. Logs from collapsed towers are lost. "Pyramido": Players build the pyramids with single color surfaces. "Log Cabin": Build small houses using as few colors as possible. Above based on Brett & Board which thanks Adam Spielt for use of the description.
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Credits
Designers
2
Alan R. Moon
Aaron Weissblum
Publishers
1
Schmidt Spiele
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