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Sherwood

Name: Sherwood
Brand: Hofyland community
Rating: 6.28 (187 reviews)

This simultaneous bidding game has forest robbers assign hidden forces to ambush travelers for rewards. Successful raids can gain villages, whose range generates the victory points needed to win.

Bluffing Medieval Auction/Bidding Folk Tales & Fairy Tales: Robin Hood

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

Complexity

2.27/5

Rating

6.28

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Linked game discovered from BGG. Full scrape pending.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Auction/Bidding

Bid against other players to determine who receives an item, action, or priority.

Read the full game description

Each player has a group of forest robbers from Sherwood. In each round players simultaneously attack three travelers with a hidden count of robbers. According to the robbers, properties for each traveler is determined by which group attacked him. Successful groups take some reward. Victory points are earned from a range of one's own villages. Some rewards allow the player gain a village and score points from them.

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