Northwest
Welcome to Northwest, where natural and supernatural treasures await! You and your fellow hikers will compete to gather the best Mementos as you explore the forest. Will you be able to spot bees, mushrooms, foliage, or the ever-elusive Bigfoot? The hiker with the highest-scoring Personal Journal at the end of the game wins.
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Product details
| Weight | 1 kg |
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| Dimensions | 255 × 255 × 78 cm |
| Language | English |
| Play Time | 45 minutes |
| Player Count | 2-4 |
Description
Northwest a 2-to-4-player tableau-building game with unique point salad scoring and shared movement mechanics. It can be taught in 3 minutes or less and strikes the right balance between luck and strategy, making it accessible to anyone.
Each turn, the player drafts a memento cube from the main exploration board by moving the shared exploration token onto the cube and adding it to their tableau. The previously captured memento cube sets the next player’s available move:
- Bees/Honey: the next player must move in an L-shape, similar to the Knights in chess.
- Mushrooms: the next player must move into one of the 8 surrounding spaces.
- Ferns: next player must move into 1 of 4 orthogonal spaces.
- Maples: next player must move into 1 of 4 diagonal spaces.
- Bigfoot: next player may move into any space in the same column or row.
In Northwest, your journey is represented by a 4×4 tableau in which you will track memento cubes drafted from the exploration board. Each memento cube scores victory points (VPs) in a unique way. The game ends when a player cannot make a legal move in the exploration board, or all players have filled their personal tableau. The player with the most VP wins!
Can you spot bees, mushrooms, foliage, or the ever-elusive Bigfoot? Your next adventure in the Northwest awaits.