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Bosk is a terrific area control game using trees and leaves! The game is very reminiscent of Photosynthesis, but is very much it's thing, however. The production values are the equal of Photosynthesis in every way. If you like the idea of a board game covered in trees and leaves, this is a game for you!Bosk is an area control game at heart with some interesting twists. The game board is made up of an intersecting grid (representing forest trails) printed over various colored regions of a national park. Players will compete with each other to control/score the forest trails (grids) and the colored regions of the park. The game takes place over four phases representing a year at the park.Phase 1 (Spring): During spring, players will take turns planting trees along the intersections of where trails meet (i.e. the grid). Each tree has a number printed on it running from 1-4, and each player has two sets of these trees (8 total). The goal being that once every player has planted their eight tress, each and every row on the board (both vertical AND horizontal) will be scored!Phase 2 (Summer): Scoring:A player who has the highest value of trees on each row and column will score either 3 points (if he/she is the only one there), 2points if he/she shares a row/column with another player and still has the most value in trees (1 point for second place), or 1 point if tied.Phase 3 (Autumn): This is were things get interesting. Our trees fade and their leaves begin to fall from their branches.The player in last place gets to place the 'Wind Board' at one edge of the game board. This board will determine the direction from which the wind blows from the rest of the game. Then each player has a selection of 8 leaf tokens, numbered 1-8 (and a squirrel, more on that later!), and chooses on of those leaves to play. The number on the leaf will determine how many leaves will fall from the player's chosen tree!For the first four rounds of the game, the tree that player must choose to drop leaves from is predetermined by the wind board (trees numbered 1-4 in order). The last four rounds are the player's choice. To drop leaves, the players takes the number of leave tokens of his color that matches the number on his chosen leaf and begins dropping them from the chosen tree onto the squares om game board IN THE DIRECTION OF THE WIND! The first leaf dropped from the tree MUST be orthogonally adjacent to the chosen tree, but after that, leaves can be both orthogonally or diagonally adjacent to a previously placed leaf as long as they fall in the direction the wind is blowing! After the player drops his leaves, he REMOVES the tree from which they fell! Players can place a leaf ON TOP of another player's leaf, but it costs extra leaves to do so. The player that used the fewest (lowest numbered) leaf will become the start player in the next round.Players repeat this process 8 times until they run out of leaves. The purpose of dropping leaves is to control the colored regions on the board. The player who drops the most leaves within a colored region will 'control' that region for scoring purposes.Phase 4 (Winter): In winter players will score each region. Players will score points for having the most leaves in each region. 8 points are scored if a player is the sole controller of that region; 5 points are awarded if a player has the most leaves in a region with other players (3 points for second or 1 point for ties); and for first place ties-4 points each. The player with the most points wins!Bosk is a simple game to learn but has some deep strategy within it! The placement of trees in phase one is crucial! Does one go for early points in summer, or does one place his trees to maximum effect during the winter scoring phase? Does one play all his large leaf tiles first and spread out far and wide, or does one drop a few leaves and watch what the other players do? Great stuff!If you're a fan of Photosynthesis and want a similar game, but with it's own twists and turns, the get this game! If you love trees on your board games, get this game! You won't regret it!

This game looks pretty and all but is not fun to play. It’s actually really boring and mostly feels like a counting game. Every part of the game ends with adding up numbers/points. And then the game is over. Sure there is strategy in where you place leaves but other then that it’s over before anything fun even happens. Sorry about this review. Play something else.

This game is a lot of fun. By the looks of it youd think its be super easy, so easy that it couldn't possibly be any fun....youd be wrong! This game is easy to learn and understand but it still requires strategy and smart thinking !!! My family loved this game, we played it like 6 times. It's beautiful, unique and very entertaining. Forsure on my top 10 list for fav games to play 👍

we really enjoy this game, it is fun to figure out and everyone feels like they had a good time at the end without losing. it's simple to figure out, and easy to pack up.

Stages of the game weren't that fun. The graphics are beautiful but my mom and I didn't enjoy the actual gameplay that much, found it a bit fussy.

If I had to pick a selection of games best suited for playing on a park bench in the woods, this would be #1. Its even therapeutic to put together

Neat game

I am a huge Camper/Hiker; this game was destined to go on my shelf from first glance. I really love all the attention this outdoor theme has gotten lately and Bosk doesn't just fiddle with the theme, there is an interestingly complex area control game buried beneath all these wonderfully shaped and colored leaf pieces. Oh and cheers to the designers on having Orange as a player color, any game that does that is alright by me!In Bosk you have this wonderful tie in once again with theme to the 4 seasons. You'll have 2 action/play rounds and 2 scoring rounds. So in Spring and Autumn you'll take actions, Summer and Winter you'll score the moves you made in the previous seasons. I really enjoy that the scoring sessions allow for 2 different methods of play, you can be rather forceful in tree placement in the Spring so that you will top the scoreboard in the Summer, or you may wish to play a more planned game where your tree placement is hopefully setting you up to litter the forest floor with falling leaves in Autumn and then score more aggressively in Winter.Bosk is easy to learn and engaging enough to make you want to play again and again. Spring finds you placing these beautiful trees all over the board trying to score points by rows and columns against your opponents. Autumn is when the magic happens, that crisp cool air blows in and quite literally the leaves from your trees are blow across the board with the shifting winds. There is a wind mechanic added to this season that shows the directions leaves will fall across the board. Now that you're moving into this area control part of the game ideally you'll want to have as many of your leaves covering spaces in each of the 8 scenic territories, but of course so does every other player. Now begins a game of tough choices, as the wind whips around the board each round you must choose 1 of your trees and how many leaves will fall from it to the ground. The choice you make will often influence future choices by your opponents, if you've all a sudden gained control of an area on your turn their turn may be to have their leaves fall and cover yours giving them control of that same area.So plays out a wonderful back and forth give and take between everyone at the table. Is it time for you to cut your losses in one area and instead focus on trying to take over others, or do you draw a line in the leaves and stake your claim permanently in an area by playing your squirrel card! Yes, there is an adorable little squirrel you can play that will let you secure a single square in an area permanently. This will put you in the running for points in the Winter scoring season and prevent any one player from gaining an advantage to being the only might try and score a single area. Your squirrel will chirp defiantly at other players letting them know this space belongs to you and cannot be covered by any future leaves.I was excited to see how the squirrel mechanic would be used in the game once I got it. I'm happy to say it is a thematic and welcome addition to what is already a very fun game. There is so much enjoyment to be had during the Autumn phase dropping all those leaves across the board, they are wonderful visual and in a tactile sense, they along with the other components in the game are of the highest quality. I was not only surprised to see that each wooden leaf was cut, shaped, and colored just like true tree leaves, but I was most impressed with how thick the card stock is for the trees. I do not think I have ever punched out the pieces of a game before and seen such great quality, the trees fit together perfectly, the wooden tokens are fabulous, and there is even and player color coded set of inserts to hold the pieces of that color.Color me impressed, Bosk delivers an incredible amount of game for the size of the box and what is inside. As my headline suggests what I love most is how quick the games are, we play what is in fact a challenging game quite quickly, but still get so much out of it. Our games certainly lend themselves to being closer to the 40 minute range as with more thinking and analyzing of what the board state is and what other players do you adjust and plan which takes time, but you can have just as fulfilling an experience placing pieces on the fly and experimenting. This game plays to its strengths of being a repeat play at the table; you'll finish one game and be eager for the next.I can't say what draws me to this game the most in the end, it brings about a theme and setting that is near and dear to me personally. With my favorite time of the year being Autumn, Bosk just speaks to me, being outdoors hiking the trails, watching the squirrels scurry about, and having the leaves fall all around you is pretty great. Bosk is more than pretty great, it's an awesome game that has a wonderful theme that I feel so many can enjoy, I hope you'll enjoy it as well, and when you're not spending time with family or friends playing board games step outside and see some of the great parks and forests around you.

I played this at a board gaming group about 2 years ago, and decided to purchase it for me and my family during lockdown.It's a puzzle-y without being too complicated for a 9-year-old and very cute and colourful with its various leaf tokens and squirrels too.My only gripe with the game would be how similar the orange and red colours are. With three players, you could just play with the yellow, purple and one of the other two colours, but with 4 people playing, I can see orange and red getting mixed up rather easily!I'm also rating this game based on how much I paid for it on Amazon at the time, which was a little less than £20.For other fun tree-based games, I also recommend Photosynthesis.

Ordered bosk as per picture and description etc. Received sagrada passion.Very disappointed

I bought this game as a gift and i was so happy to received it in perfect condition. I'm so happy when the games are treated with love and good wrapping.