Thanks for the review! I just ordered this one after watching your video. I love games with simple rules. I think the board variety will keep it from getting stale. I couldn’t resist. 😂🤦🏻♀️
In Donuts, is the layout of both sides of the four tiles different? That would give the game even more variety than I thought. Based on only one side layout: (4!/4) x 4^4 = 6 x 256 = 1,536 BUT based on different two-side layout: (8x6x4x2)/4 x 4^4 = 96 x 256 = 24,576 Is INSERT also double layered ?
Yes the tiles are double sided. Not sure I follow your calculation but the way I would work out the number of possibilities is: Each tile has 8 possible configurations (choose a side and rotation). So we independently configure each tile that gives 8*8*8*8 = 4096 configurations, for a specific ordering of the tiles. Further, each tile can go either top left, top right, bottom left or bottom right. This gives 4! = 24 orderings of the tiles. So the total number of board configurations is 24 * 4096 = 98,304 (I think)
@@sheleemkashem6957 I would just add that as 4 players sit at a table, each of those 98,304 configurations look different based on orientation - a tile can be top left, bottom left, bottom right or top right, one each to a different player. So, I'd say the true number of different configurations are 98,304/4 = my 24,576 (I think :).
This is very good 2 player game and severely underrated in BGG. If you like abstracts, almost a no-brainer. It’s fun, casual but lots of tactics involved. Great review!
my copy just arrived.. what a happy coincidence
Let me know what you think!
@@TheGameBoyGeeks its a good one :)
Thanks for the review! I just ordered this one after watching your video. I love games with simple rules. I think the board variety will keep it from getting stale. I couldn’t resist. 😂🤦🏻♀️
Nice! Let me know what you think!
In Donuts, is the layout of both sides of the four tiles different? That would give the game even more variety than I thought.
Based on only one side layout:
(4!/4) x 4^4 = 6 x 256 = 1,536
BUT based on different two-side layout:
(8x6x4x2)/4 x 4^4 = 96 x 256 = 24,576
Is INSERT also double layered ?
Yes the tiles are double sided. Not sure I follow your calculation but the way I would work out the number of possibilities is:
Each tile has 8 possible configurations (choose a side and rotation). So we independently configure each tile that gives 8*8*8*8 = 4096 configurations, for a specific ordering of the tiles.
Further, each tile can go either top left, top right, bottom left or bottom right. This gives 4! = 24 orderings of the tiles.
So the total number of board configurations is 24 * 4096 = 98,304
(I think)
@@sheleemkashem6957 I would just add that as 4 players sit at a table, each of those 98,304 configurations look different based on orientation - a tile can be top left, bottom left, bottom right or top right, one each to a different player.
So, I'd say the true number of different configurations are 98,304/4 = my 24,576 (I think :).
This is very good 2 player game and severely underrated in BGG. If you like abstracts, almost a no-brainer. It’s fun, casual but lots of tactics involved. Great review!
I agree!
Good review of a good game. Of course one of the biggest pros is the excellent donut asthetic.
I really like such no luck abstracts.
However, given the "unhealthy" theme, I'd rather make it truly abstract by substituting "checkers".