Monday, March 25, 2024

#76: Mountain Goats (Mark's Top 100 2024)


Mountain Goats
BoardGameGeek
  • rank: 1,722
  • rating: 6.9
  • published: 2010
  • designer: Stefan Risthaus
Print Status
  • in print
Why It's On The List
  • An attractive remake of the very abstract dice game Level X... but don't let the abstractness fool you. It's highly entertaining with some tricky decisions on when to spread yourself thin and when to focus intensely on a single mountain goat.
Tips & Tricks:
  • Setting yourself up to take over a mountain when no one else is close is really nice - particularly if you can hoard all of a particular number chip and keep folks from claiming the "one of everything" bonuses.
  • If you have alternatives, it can be worth it to let another player "win" the mountain so you can butt them off. (That's the way mountain goats roll, right?)
Extras
  • Not a lot to say here... but it is a part of a series of games being reprinted by Allplay. (The UI here is much better than their GPS reprint of Finito!.)

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