Floodgate Games Bosk - Board Game

This is a simple game that you can play with a partner or a small crowd. It’s easy to learn with the online video tutorial. Easy setup with minimal pieces. The colors are beautiful and I enjoy that the pieces are simple wood/cardboard rather than plastic. A fun, quick game once you learn how to play!

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.

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 👍

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

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!