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Pros
The solo mode is insanely easy to set up. It involves strategy mindfulness of what your competitors are doing. The mechanics are fun and straightforward, while still leaving room for strategy. There are many ways to play and the mechanics are differen... Read More
The book titles frequently give me a giggle.
Each card has unique alfabetized book names on the spine of each and every book. Your attempting to build your library alphabetical order while collecting certain subjects for end game scoring. Hoping for an expansion with more book options/categories... Read More
Ex libris has a interesting worker placement mechanic used to acquire books and shelve them. My wife works in a library, so this was a no-brainer. There is an option for a beginner game, in which all players have the same player board and 3 generic wo... Read More
The art work is well done, the game play is smooth, and each book on the shelves has a unique title. An interesting theme really pulls you in.
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Quality
As long as you are at least somewhat familiar with the concept of strategy games, you should have no problem picking up the ins... Read More
In this game players are creating and expanding personal bookshelves with the hopes of becoming the grand librarian of the village.
There are 12 different "library assistants" to choose from, each with a unique ability that should influence your strategy, but... Read More
Shipping
You should be able to purchase for less with the games general release in october (likely with prime shipping also).
Competitiveness
It involves strategy mindfulness of what your competitors are doing and some luck too.
My wife works in a library, so this was a no-brainer.
I would say it is mid to high on the replay-ability and is fairly relaxed with competition (although she still brags about how ... Read More
There are no decisions to be made for an ai player whatsoever, which i love, and yet you are still in competition with an oppon... Read More
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- This product had a total of 143 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You also have to worry about building the actual shelves represented by a selection of cards with random “books” in a certain letter of the alphabet you can only build shelves up to 3 high but as wide as you like bearing in mind you miss out on points at the end if your shelves aren’t stable missing spaces or floating shelves
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Interesting decisions need to be made during the placement of cards to try to earn max points during the end of game scoring phase
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The down side the instructions are a little vague in some places specially the parts about the discarding cards
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The strategy changes in a group setting but the basic mechanics are the same
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
While there are winners and losers in this game it isnt super competitive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There arent many ways to attack other players
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There is a variant where players remove some of the more pvpcentric cards but even if you leave them in there isnt much room for salt in this game
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I know this may sound somewhat boring but this game is not the case
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