Sideboards
2024
BGG Geek Rating
5.5
based on 74 ratings
BGG Average Rating
6.2
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BGG Ranking
#18326
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Players
1-6
Weight
1.67/5.00
Playtime
15 min
Age
8+
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📖 About This Game
Each player in Sideboards creates an eight-card sideboard, then sees how they fare against everyone else.
In more detail, the deck contains sideboard cards that each feature five differently-colored drawers on top of one another, with drawer handles of three types. On a turn, everyone plays simultaneously, choosing and playing a card from their hand, passing their remaining cards clockwise, then drawing a new card. After everyone has played eight cards, you tally your score.
What are you scoring? Three task cards are in play each game from a deck of thirty. One task challenges you to arrange drawer colors in a particular pattern. Another forces you to consider the arrangement and type of handles. The third lets you score for creating rows of color or handles.
Sideboards includes a solo mode in which you compete against yourself for a high score.