Century: Spice Road
Second Chance
Carcassonne
Twice as Clever
Octodice
Architects of the West Kingdom
Quacks of Quedlinburg
Game of the Month: Second Chance
We bought Second Chance at UK Games Expo last year and this was only the second time we have played it, I guess you could say we were giving it a Second Chance…. See what I did there.
Anyway this game was one of the many Roll and Write games we bought at Expo. If you like Tetris then you are going to love this game.
You each have a blank square grid then each in turn two cards are revealed from the stack, each card has a Tetris style shape on them, you then have to draw one of these shapes in your grid, trying to fill as much of the square as possible. If you can't put the shape into your square then you get a Second Chance to draw another card, if this shape can't be placed then you are out of the game.
Unlike Tetris there are only a certain number of each shape so you have to be careful when placing your shapes and trying to remember if certain shapes have already been revealed.
In Second Chance, each player starts with a 9×9 grid that they want to fill as completely as possible. To begin the game, everyone receives a different card with a starting tile and marks off its spaces on their grid.
Every turn, two puzzle tile cards are revealed, and each player chooses one of them, then marks off squares on their personal grid that match the shape of the image shown on their chosen card. Multiple players can choose the same card. If a player cannot fit either revealed shape into their grid, they get a second chance and reveal one card from the deck just for them. If they can fit this shape in their grid, they do continue normally next round; otherwise they are eliminated from play.
The game ends when all players have been eliminated, the deck of puzzle cards has run out, or a player has completely filled their grid. If someone has filled their grid, they win. If all players have been eliminated or the deck ran out of cards, then whoever has the fewest empty spaces wins.