![]() Beginning with the trough in front of the Applejack die, a single tile is added to each trough from the supply. When examining the troughs, if there is only a single tile to choose from, a replenishment is triggered. ![]() On your turn, you will examine the troughs to the left and right of where the Applejack die currently sits. Determine that by some means, issue the players their honey, and you’re ready to begin. Each player will also start the game with some honey, based on their position in turn order. The A-side is for the standard game (all the boards match) while the B-side is meant for more experienced players (all boards vary slightly). Now, each player receives an Orchard board and the players collectively decide a side to play with. The extra Tree tiles are kept close by (face down) in a supply along with the Honey tiles. The Applejack die is set to its 1 face and placed onto the starting position. Then, the Tree tiles are arranged in a face down pile, shuffled, and two tiles are dealt to each ‘trough’ (the space between the illustrated hedge rows). Setupįirst, the Harvest board for the current player count is placed between the players. Otherwise, feel free to skip ahead to the Thoughts section. If you’d like more specifics about how the game works, then keep reading. Of course, this is a very high-level overview of the game. After 19 rounds, the game comes to an end and the player who has earned the most points wins. There are additional points to be earned each time the Applejack die makes a full rotation of the board as well. The acquired tile is placed into one of these spots in order to collect honey (which is used to purchase tiles and also worth points at the end of the game) and to create groupings of like apples which have the potential to score end game points. The Orchard board is divided into 19 hexagons (just like the setup for a game of Catan). Then this tile is added to that player’s personal Orchard board. During each turn, the Applejack die will move from point to point and the player whose turn it is will select one of the Tree tiles that lie along their particular position on the path. The central area of the board features a path that is dotted with small icons, which represent the specific players. Along the edges of the board are groupings of randomly drawn Tree tiles. The game revolves around the central Harvest board (in a very literal sense). He, along with his daughter, live in a small cottage on the edge of their orchard where they spend their days enjoying each other’s company and the rewards that come from an honest day’s work… which is presumably an endless supply of apple juice, candy apples, and other such apple-based delicacies.Īpplejack is a tile-laying game, the very first Uwe Rosenberg to feature hexagonal tiles as a matter of fact. But what isn’t unclear is that this guy loves apples and the growing and tending thereof. Whether this on-the-nose moniker was bestowed upon him by his parents at birth or acquired due to his particular obsession is unclear. OverviewĪpplejack follows the exploits of the titular Applejack who pulls double duty as both a farmer and a father. ![]() And just four days later, an exciting announcement, Applejack was going to be on sale at Essen! I wasted no time cajoling fellow writer Justin Bell into picking up a copy of it-and a few other games-for me during his visit.Īnd now it’s here. August came and went and very little had changed, but at least we had a photo of the box top and bottom by the end of it. On July 26th, the BGG entry was little more than a stub, a placeholder for things to come. What was this game? Where did it come from? When you eat, drink, and dream about Uwe Rosenberg, the daily database check becomes part of your regular routine. ![]() That’s the day it slipped into the BoardGameGeek database, largely unnoticed but by the obsessive few. July 26th, 2022 marks the day that Applejack first came onto the scene. Take a seat beneath the old apple tree and join David as he basks in the warm idyllic glow of Applejack. ![]()
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