I picked up a copy of Landmarks at Essen. Anyone want to try?
Fully cooperative or team vs team (probably you want at least six players for TvT, no upper limit)?
I know this one. I’ll play.
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What kind of game is it?
Word clues on a map.
Say no more, I’m in.
(Please do say more in the form of rules or a link to a rulebook or something though.)
Looks like the rulebook is available at the bottom of the game’s page on the publisher’s website: Landmarks – Floodgate Games. (Direct link to rulebook: LM-rulebook-120x200mm.indd).
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Ultra-short version, coop mode: map starts with hexes filled with set words. Each round the clue-civer writes another word on a hex tile, and the rest of the players have to decide where to position it based on the tiles already on the board: e.g. “ship” “castle” “bill” with a new clue of “cannon” might be next to ship and castle but not bill. Then the clue-giver reveals what’s in the hex they chose. That clue is now part of the map for the rest of the game.
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I will play
I’m interested in playing.
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I’ll join if this is still on the table.
I’ll get something set up in the morning. Anyone enthusiastic about clue-giving? (Up to two players could do it…)
I’m guessing that’s a “no”.
In which case it’s you lot versus me, I mean we all work together. Ahem.
Here is the starting map. The coloured hexes below are allocated in fixed positions on the grid. Our task is to get to the three treasures (yellow), then to the exit (grey), without running out of water or getting excessively cursed.
Each turn I subtract one from the water bottle (tile stack at bottom right) and give you a word clue, based on the existing words. So if I had “tannoy”, “oyster” and “mortice”, I might say “joint” to imply it’s related to the latter two but on the first one. You choose the hex it goes on, and I look up its contents on the puzzle card. If the hex has some effect, it happens immediately. Then the word goes there and can be used for future clues.
- Treasure - you got a treasure
- Exit - you got off the island, game is over
- Water - you refill your water bottle to 7
- Curse (red) - you are cursed. If you leave the island now, you lose
- Amulet (green) - undo one curse
- Trap (purple) - permanently lose one water capacity (and one more water)
You can’t revisit hexes.
All reasonably clear? Now is a good time to ask questions.
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Makes sense! What’s the best way for us to denote where we want the next clue to be placed once we’ve made a decision? Touching Oyster and Mortice for example?
I’ll put some numbers in the empty hexes.
I think you could probably make a case it could go into any of them.
I think waxing for a bikini line is a thing (?)but this by extension links to hair. A bikini also covers up (obstacle) body parts but this is possibly a bit stretchy.
With bikinis that is usually expected 
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There is specifically a bikini wax so I think it has to touch wax. The bikini wax itself has to do with hair but there are many better wax+hair clues available. And it would be the work of a maniac to have it only be wax and just have us 50/50 the two options. So I would say Wax + Obstacle.
I think the best link is with bikini only but there are way better bikini only clues and better wax and hair only clues so it has to bridge two of them
You mean wax only?