Mille Fiori Review - with Tom Vasel 

On the case of it being his only entry into point salad, you’re forgetting the recent Witchstone.

Excellent review ! I knew Mille Fiore was going to be a hit the moment I saw the board and mechanics design and then having Knizia behind it made me jump on it quick - got the Euro edition and printed the English rules. This game is brilliant for a midweight gaming club. Once you learn the rules the first time you’re golden ! Bringing this back to the table again and again is going to be EASY, and people will want to play again to try a different strategy. Knizia has a knack for hitting that dopamine receptor in a gamers brain with simple mechanics and crunchy decision making, but it’s never quite the analysis paralysis that it seemingly could be. What I love and must have in a game is HOW IT ENDS - the end game trigger in Mille Fiore is classic Knizia, and it adds that extra little lightweight tension that makes a game worth playing again. This game when I get it is never leaving my collection !!!

This really has a roll and write feel. It does look fun.

Thank you for the review.

Amazing! Thank you

Looking forward to this one

This looks really fun. Might be the first Knizia game I add to my shelf.

I can’t believe you forgot Witchstone already.

Nice review! I got this game a couple weeks ago (from Philibertnet); it was an instant buy for me, since it was Knizia and since Witchstone has been a hit with my gaming group. I've played it twice this week, and I found it to be an accessible and satisfying 1-hour filler. Mille Fiori seems to be Knizia's take on Ganz Schon Clever (and to me, it's very clear that he was thinking about Ganz Schon Clever). Still, there's drafting, though players are interacting together on a shared board (rather than marking on separate sheets), and the extra card actions act like the triggered bonuses from GSC. You can see some parallels between the way an area of the board scores and the way a colored area in GSC scores; also, notice that the "Trade" and "Harbor" areas are intertwined (somewhat resembling the way that the blue and white dice are intertwined in GSC) (also, the colors of the Trade and Harbor areas look a bit like blue + white). I think general audiences will enjoy this one, too.

I can't wait to play Millie's Fury!

This has a feeling of "That's pretty clever" on a higher level.

I’ve been wanting this game ever since I saw the review. I got to check it out at Gen Con and really enjoyed it. I finally have my copy on pre-order. It seems like a nice big step up from a game that my parents always like to play with me which is Sequence.

I feel like the "tactical" variant in the rules is preferable with 4 players where you can see what each player is going to play instead of the blind bid base rule. It adds a little bit of time but avoids the frustration your plan being ruined.

This one vs Witchstone which is better for family game?

Yeah, when I read the rules I thought it's a roll and write but you don't have your own pad, and instead of arbitrary die rolls (which I'm not against, but wouldn't work in this game) you get a bit more tactical play from the cards

I've heard the 2-player game was lackluster, and I'm glad you covered that in your review. I'm a fan of Knizia games, but as good as this one looks, I'll likely pass on it because of that.

As someone already said, Witchstone by Knizia is also point salad. This game looks better though.

Is that Groot?

hello! cards size?

Man, Reiner Knizia sure knows to make games where 'to help myself I set my opponent up to get more points'! Gives you the 'Lost Cities' tension for 3-4 players...

Looks like a lot of fun...but without a 2-layered board, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

The next Spiel des Jhares😎🤓

A lil too abstract-y, than theme-y, for this complex a game, for me. Pass.

good god this game is a snorefest

Maybe this game plays well but it looks awful.