Sweet Honey, Bee Mine!

Should this hit the table?

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The game has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth. Players need to pay attention to each other's actions frequently. While there is some cooperation required, it is not a major focus of the game.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.4

Scales well

Strategy 4.7

Deep strategy

Control 2.7

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

The game has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth. Players need to pay attention to each other's actions frequently. While there is some cooperation required, it is not a major focus of the game.

Replay value

Sweet Honey, Bee Mine! has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, impactful expansions, deep strategic possibilities, and good scalability. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, allowing players to discover new tactics and strategies. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, further enhancing the replay value. The game adapts well to different player counts without compromising its appeal or balance. Although it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the effort.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Sweet Honey, Bee Mine! is 5.33, indicating a balanced mix of luck and strategy. The game outcome is influenced by both random elements and player decisions. While random elements have a notable impact on the game outcome, players also have substantial ability to mitigate luck through strategic decisions and planning.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

Sweet Honey, Bee Mine! is from Katsuya Kitano and New Board Game Party, creators of Who Soiled the Toilet? in 2016. This game combines bluffing, hand management, and your ability to be a jerk in one tidy package. In a round, each player starts with a hand of five cards, with the cards being similar to a Pairs deck (one 1, two 2s, up to ten 10s), but with some of the cards from 1-5 being labeled "low" and some from 6-10 being labeled "high"; if a card isn't labeled, then it can be anything from 1-10. Each player reveals one card simultaneously, and whoever reveals the highest card starts. On a turn, the player choose one card from hand, places it face down with 1-3 honey chips on it, then draw a new card. The next player can either place the same number of chips on it to pass the card to the next player or take the card and chips; if the card matches a number the player already has, they are out of the round and must ante a number of chips equal to the card number to the pot. If no one takes the card, then whoever first played the card must take it, scoring lots of chips but killing themselves if they played a number they already had. The round continues until a player has cards that sum to at least 35, they have three cards valued 1-5 in front of them, or they're the only one still in the round. That player wins the pot, then everyone scores points equal to the number of honey chips they have. After a certain number of rounds, whoever has the most points wins.

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Betting and Bluffing Memory

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Katsuya Kitano (????)

Artists

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Satoshi Jimbo??????

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???????? (New Board Game Party)

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