{"id":10433,"date":"2024-10-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10433"},"modified":"2024-10-13T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T21:29:26","slug":"floriferous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/17\/floriferous\/","title":{"rendered":"Floriferous."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Floriferous<\/a> is a delightful game from 2021, with some light set collection and public\/private objectives, playing out over three quick rounds before the final scoring. There\u2019s nothing new here, just some familiar mechanics put together really well for a fast, family-friendly sort of game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Floriferous, players are all at a flower show and will compete to create the most valuable collection of flowers after three days (rounds). They do this by selecting flower and \u2018desire\u2019 cards from a public tableau that has five columns and three to five rows, based on player count, with the last row always desire cards and all other rows flower cards. Two of the cards in the top row are always face-down, for reasons that will become clear in a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The start player places their token on any card in the first (left-most) column to claim it, replacing the card with their token, after which the other players do the same. Then the player whose token was in the topmost row out of all tokens goes first in the next turn, selecting a card in the second column, and so forth. After all players have taken a card from the fifth column, the day ends, and you check the three public objectives to see if anyone has met their criteria; their value decreases by the day from 5 points to 3 to 2. Day two works the same way, but goes from right to left, after which day three goes left to right and the game ends. (The rules offer a slightly more competitive mode, where you score public objectives as they\u2019re achieved, with the player who does it first taking the 5-point space, blocking it for other players.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Flowers come in five types and five colors, and may have one of the five insect types on them as well. Some cards in the flower deck are actually arrangement cards and give you points for getting the matching symbols within the cards you\u2019ve collected. Desire cards come in three varieties: two points per specific bug\/flower\/color, increasing points for up to 5 of the same bug\/flower\/color, increasing points for up to 5 different bugs\/flowers\/colors. At the start of each day, you\u2019ll place some tokens (called stones, but made of cardboard) on specific cards in the tableau, which are worth 1 point per 2 stones at game-end, with a 2-point bonus to whoever collects the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the entire game, other than the included solo mode. The original Floriferous is in a smallish box, but there\u2019s an even smaller one coming, a \u201cpocket edition\u201d you can pre-order here<\/a>; it\u2019s the same game, just in a tinier box. I\u2019m a big fan regardless of the box size \u2013 it\u2019s so simple, and works so well, that it\u2019s a practically perfect little family game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Floriferous is a delightful game from 2021, with some light set collection and public\/private objectives, playing out over three quick rounds before the final scoring. There\u2019s nothing new here, just some familiar mechanics put together really well for a fast, family-friendly sort of game. In Floriferous, players are all at a flower show and will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,455,161,1415],"class_list":["post-10433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boardgames","tag-family-games","tag-highly-recommended","tag-set-collection-games","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10434,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}