Learn How to Play Parks | "How to Game" on Good Time Society with Becca Scott

what up losers back to one game parks from keymaster games who's excited in parks players take on the role of hikers as they journey across the various trails and ranges of America's great wilderness as they venture into new terrain players gather tokens from the sites they visit and use those tokens to visit national parks then score points parks is divided into four rounds each representing a season of the year the player with the most points at the end of the year wins the game setup begins with the game board placed Center align the two token trays next to the board to create a very tidy supply shuffle the parks cards into a facedown draw deck on the top right of the board draw and reveal the top three cards placing them in the parks slots to the left shuffle the gear cards face down to form the gear deck on the bottom right reveal the top three gear cards and place them in the gear slots as well shuffle the cantine cards face down and deal one face up to each player place the canteen deck facedown on the top left of the board shuffle B year deck and deal two cards to each player these are personal secret objectives that provide two or three bonus points in the ends game if their requirements are met and you're gonna want those points baby each player chooses one year card to keep and removes the other from the game shuffle this season deck and place it in the season area on the Left reveal the top card which will be the first of four seasons in the game next create the trail by placing the trailhead site tile to the left of your play area separate the site tiles into basic and advanced Vance tiles have an asterisk on the bottom right if you have more than three players in the game include the waterfall site in the basic tiles otherwise you don't need it get it out of here shuffle the advanced tiles and add just one of those advanced tiles to the basic tiles and this is your trail deck for the season set aside the other three advanced tiles for now shuffle the trail deck and deal each of those tiles to the right of the trailhead site once all site tiles are placed set the trail end to the right of the last sites the beginning goes at the beginning the end at the end finally assign to hikers of the same color to each player placing them on the trailhead tile to their eager and ready to go each player takes the matching campfire marker with the lit side up placed in front of them give the first hiker marker to the player who claims they most recently went for a hike sure give the camera to the player to the right of the first hiker now we're ready to go was a walk in the park right gameplay occurs in four rounds aka seasons each divided in two turns at the beginning of a season check the active season card and note its effects then identify the weather pattern on the bottom right of the card place the indicated tokens beginning with the second trail site in the pattern listed this pattern is repeated up to the trails end then beginning with the player who has the first hiker marker players take turns moving their hikers forward down the trail on their turn the active player selects one of their hikers and moves it to the right any number of spaces to a site of their choice provided no other hikers even their own are currently on that space they then performed the action listed on the site and if any weather and pattern tokens are still on that space they can take them into their personal supply let's take a look at the site five of the basic sites forest mountain valley waterfall and ocean each allow the player to take a resource token or tokens matching the icon on the bottom for instance if a hiker lands on this valley the player earns two Sunshine tokens and takes the bonus weather pattern token for free keep in mind players are limited to 12 tokens max so don't horde too much nobody likes a hoarder except for my dad the Vista site allows the player to make a choice either draw a canteen adding it to their personal area face up or they may exchange two tokens of any type to take a photo from the supply to gain ownership of the camera let's look at both of those mechanics the canteens allow a player to exchange water tokens for other tokens or actions by filling the canteen with a water token gained on that turn they gain the bonus listed a player may have multiple canteens but only fill each one once per season photos are each worth one point at the end of the game having lots of photos can provide some great catch up points also when you're old you can look back on them if the active player is in possession of the camera when taking a photo they only have to exchange one token instead of two additionally they'll have an opportunity to take one more photo at the end of the season back to the site's the advanced trail sites specifically at the wildlife site the player may exchange one token to gain a wildlife token these tokens are wild you get it see what they did there they can act as any other token type however they cannot be used as water to fill canteens nor towards buying gear speaking of gear at the lookout players can reserve or visit a park we'll get to that one or they can buy a gear card gear helps a hiker with extra benefits throughout the game when landing the lookout and choosing this option the active player spends the cost listed in the top right of one of the three revealed gear cards adding that card to their supply all gear cards have ongoing benefits and some have instant benefits as well which a player gains immediately upon purchase strategy tip get some gear early the reserve or visit a park option gives the player another option either reserve a park by choosing one of the three available park cards on the board or drawing the top card of the parks deck and placing it face up horizontally in their personal supply this park can now only be visited by that player visiting a park allows the player to pay the tokens listed to add one of the three-part cards or one in their reserve vertically into their personal supply parks are the main way to earn points in the game so visit them frequently where hikers aren't we come on the lodge site allows a player to exchange two tokens to gain any other two tokens wild life cannot be earned this way the river allows the player to spend one water token to copy the action from another site occupied by another hiker one dynamic option each player has the campfire if a hiker is already out of sight a player wants to visit they may visit that site by flipping their campfire to its extinguished side campfires can be relit each time one of their hikers reaches trail end the trail end is the last place hikers visit before the end of the season when placing a hiker here the player chooses one of the available areas and sets their hiker vertically in the farthest right available slot the reserve a park action we already talked about but the first player to take this option also gains the first player marker any number of hikers may reserve a park at the trail end but only the first player to take this action gets that first player marker by gear is another option and the rightmost spaces provide a one son token discount on the gear purchase the four Plus slot can only be used in a game of four or more players finally visit a park allows a player to exchange those tokens for parks once the players two hikers reach the trail end they are out of the round and pass on their subsequent turns when only one hiker is left on the trail they must move to the trail end and choose an action afterwards the season ends a few things happen here and they are all outlined to Fred on the board first the player with the camera may take a picture hang the one token cost if do the canteens returning all the water tokens to the general supply return all hikers to the trailhead take the trail sites and shuffle in one random advanced site making the trail one sight longer read eel the trail place the current season card on the bottom of the deck and reveal the next season apply the weather pattern and now you're ready to start that next round the game ends at the conclusion of the fourth season after the camera owner gets one more photo opportunity all players reveal their year cards at this time and score all points from park's photos and the personal bonus from their year card if achieved the player with the first player marker also gains one bonus point then the player with the most points wins all bragging rights for the rest of the day tiebreakers the player with the most parks visited wins in a tiebreaker if it's still dud the win is shared and that's how to play parks thanks so much for watching this video be sure and like and subscribe and if you want to see more like this you can always head on over to our patreon page to help support us we appreciate you you [Music]

Channel: Good Time Society

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Length: 10min 27sec (627 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 25 2020