Photosynthesis - How To Play 

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And even another 2 years later it’s still relevant! I was just gifted this game to go along with the Botany unit I’m doing with my kiddos.

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Hi! tomorrow is my 27 birthday!! and I also was thinking to ask this as a present, my dad wants to give me something so I thought "mmm what about a boardgame?" but I not a fan so I dont know which one yet, there are a lot, I only know monopoly hahaha xD

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Plants have chloroplasts. They are the powerhouse of a plant cell.

daniel scutaru They also have mitochondria...

Getting some science up in here!

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This is such a lovely comment to receive! So glad the video was helpful, and I hope you both have a great time playing :)

@@WatchItPlayed I'm going to be playing Blood Rage for the first time in a few days, I'll be watching your video for that one at least a couple times! Keep up the good work!

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An understandable thing to be confused by!

Agreed. But maybe if you place your available items directly in front of you and the board slightly aside, it would be less confusing during play.

I found this awkward when playing as well - having a main board and a player board is perfectly fine, but to then require an additional unmarked area is awkward to understand and even more awkward to teach, especially to children. Furthermore, the rule that items coming off the main board without an available space on the player board seems awkwardly punishing. While the obvious intent is to require some additional "asset management," it's a rule which will certainly catch newbies by surprise at least once during a playthrough, and again is very hard to explain to kids.

Maybe in the next edition they could include special boards or player mats for your available pieces.

havent ran into the problem, or have played with people that have had that problem. But its makes complete sense why you would and im surprised i havent came across it.

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Enjoy growing some trees! :)

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I hope you both get a chance to try it out!

@@WatchItPlayed Cheers :)

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Glad you enjoyed the video! For that rule, I means lowest in value.

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Thanks for checking out the video! We don't generally pre-announce videos until they are at a scripting stage. Don't want to disappoint anyone if the schedule moves around!

Yes, many times the age suggestions are conservative estimates. Younger kids with an interest and enthusiasm for a game can quite often pick things up earlier.

Hey Jim, the answer is "yes and no" :) When you buy a tree, you place it in your available area beside your board (you can't plant it during the same action that you used to buy it). That said, as soon as you buy a tree, you can then use your next action to Grow a tree, to move it from your available area, to the board. So, you don't have to wait until a new round - effectively, you ARE using it right away - but they are considered 2 separate actions (which I just wanted to make sure was clear). Hopefully that doesn't make it more confusing.

It makes sense to me - Thank You so much!

Do it! This game is awesome.

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I picked mine up the same way!

Nobody is a dummy, but everyone can use a hand sometimes ;)

Glad it caught your interest!

That's a tough one to answer, as I think that will come down to how long a particular person thinks is too long to have to spend adding up their points. My suspicion is that you may not find it takes so long, especially when everyone is helping.

Watch It Played Ok, thanks for the reply. Think I'll pick it up then ☺

Firstly it doesn't take long, and we found it was far easier to let one person do it to avoid confusion. The way I did it was to scan across each of the 7 rows, as the sunlight hits each row and simply added on for trees that collected light points. I did this separately for each player and while you could just score your own, it would be hard to catch mistakes, when one person is doing it the others will naturally double check

You're too kind!

As long as you didn't just plant that seed this round.

Yes.

Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.

Cabal Paxiarch All of our videos are vetted by the publisher before they are released. So I’m as confident as I can be that we have it right :). When I believe there could be ambiguity in the wording of a rule, I’ll check with them for confirmation, etc. Hope that helps!

The game The movie Yes, they fit back in the box assembled. The box even has four separate compartments for the four different colours. They are not too difficult to assemble, as there are only two parts that slot together, but it did take a little while because there are so many. It's one time only though, so not a big deal.

Yup! Just bought the game today, and it includes inserts to assemble inside the box to store the trees.

I found it easier to store after the large trees are disassembled.

Thanks to Jeremy for the assist!

Hmm, not sure if I quite understand the question. You wouldn't lose any from your available area, but let's say you move a tree from your available area to the main board - the tree on the main board that is being upgraded would then have to come back to your player board, and if there wasn't space on your player board, that "replaced tree" (or seed) would be lost.

@@WatchItPlayed Yes, that is exactly what I was asking. Thank you.

Glad you enjoyed! My copy is lent out, so can't do measurement work for you.

@@WatchItPlayed thats okay .i bought 4 new games so wonder your thoughts about it . cyclades- pandemic iberia- survive escape from atlantis and Horrified, i will be happy if u have chance to reply

@@onurkaya844 Hey there - I don't review on this channel, so I can't help there, but I do have a tutorial video for Horrified, if you'd like to see how it's played!

This is hard for me to answer, as I can't see what you're seeing. Might be a question for the publisher directly?

@@WatchItPlayed You can refer the image below and notice the different arrangement of numbers on the left side of the board: sta.sh/0ptrx4gnou5

Interesting - I honestly don't know if yours is the new version, or mine is.

Hi Mark, I’m travelling right now and it’s not easy for me to double check the rule book right now, but whatever I say in the video is correct.

It's not so much that you'd do it at the same time, but you could plant one and then plant another after - but remember to pay attention to the rules restricting how many times a space can be targeted (all explained in the video).

@@WatchItPlayed Thank you

It's tricky as it's very specific wording. So it goes back to the top most available space on the board. So it only means the top "empty" space. Often, as you mentioned, this means the bottom space. But if there were 2 empty spaces, it would actually not go on the bottom space.

@@WatchItPlayed Doesn't it also mean that if you have no available spaces that tree is removed from the game?

Mark D Hey Mark, I’m travelling right now and not near my copy of the game to double check the rules right now.

You can never place a tree directly on the board after buying it. Trees enter the board with the Grow action, which means that all trees (aside from the ones you placed during the setup), will be placed on the board, from your available area, only as they grow from seeds and upwards.

Watch It Played i actually meant seeds not trees. So the question is then can u play a seed directly on the board if you have the light points to do so?

I came here to ask the same question, which imo wasn't clearly expressed in the rulebook, or addressed strongly in this video. (Thank you for the video though Rodney.)

According to someone on BGG it costs 1 light point to plant an available seed.

You can purchase a tree from your supply board to your available area for one action, paying the purchase cost in light points. For example, buying your first large tree will cost four light points. In the same turn, you may also grow a medium tree already on the game board by paying three more light points and replacing it with the large tree you just purchased. The only restriction to actions is the same space on the board cannot be used twice for any actions. In the example above, you could not also cut this large tree and collect a scoring token or use the tree to scatter a seed to another location.

Very happy to have been able to help out Sinan!

yeah we finally had a game last night and it went quite well, consider me as a subscriber =)

Your video, you made it very well and answered all my questions that the rules dont explaine well

Not sure who the other guy is, but glad you found this helpful Josiah!

The Sun Rotates in the first phase of the round, and then all the players take their turns. Then a new round begins and the sun rotates again.

We've been working on some tutorials for a bit, but a game play with Pep will be coming soon.

This is not what my copy of the rules say - and if it helps, the video was checked by the publisher. Not sure which rules you might have been looking at.

@@WatchItPlayed Huh. I just checked with my instructions (Polish edition of the game released by "2 Pionki") and it clearly states here under "Game Setup" that: "Players place one of their small trees on the one leaf fields at the edge of the board. Then, in reverse order, starting from the last player, they place their second small tree on the board." :) It made sense for me the same way it makes sense in Catan - so that the "last player" doesn't always have the least / worst choice of places to place his pieces in the initial setup :) I wonder when this deviation apeared? Did the original rules were updated before the game was translated to Polish and we got the updated version or somehow it was changed for the Polish edition only? Here’s the exact Polish text followed by a google translate version ;) „Gracze po kolei umieszczają jedno z ich dostępnych Małych Drzew na jednym z zewnętrznych pól planszy głównej (pola z jednym liściem). Następnie gracze w odwrotnej kolejności, zaczynając od ostatniego gracza, umieszczają na planszy głównej drugie Małe Drzewo. Pozwoli to graczom otrzymać Punkty Światła podczas pierwszej Fazy Fotosyntezy.” „The players take turns placing one of their available Small Trees on one of the outer spaces of the main board (fields with one leaf). The players then, in reverse order, starting with the last player, place the second Small Tree on the game board. This will allow players to earn Light Points during the first Photosynthesis Phase.” It’s crazy :) I can’t find this version of the rules anywhere :) You can find the Polish instruction by googling: „fotosynteza gra planszowa instrukcja” :)

@@KrzysztofGnutek Yeah, I can't really help you with differences between translations and editions - that's beyond the scope of the kind of support I can provide. The video here is for the English edition and is correct based on the English rules as presented by the North American publication. It's always possible for rules to change or be updated, but I haven't seen any information that this has happened here.

@@WatchItPlayed Yeah. Sorry for bringing confusion into the super clear and high quality rules explanation :)

@@KrzysztofGnutek No worries at all - sorry there seems to be some discrepancies.

Hey Brad, it sounds like you've got it. If you grow something that's on the main board, and it has no space to go on your personal board, it goes back to the box.

I don't have a copy handy to check for you, but I do believe some values were skipped.

I haven't never counted them up to check.

This is hard for me to answer, because I don't really get into 'what makes sense' in these videos, I just focus on what the rules are, if you know what I mean. I do understand what you are saying, I just don't have a specific comment on it. Glad you liked the video!

I don't have a copy of the rulebook handy to double check this, but that should be possible.

@@WatchItPlayed Thank you for your answer

You can only grow them from seeds.

Watch It Played thanks and technically I can block a space by leaving a seed and not growing it?

Effectively, yes.

Watch It Played thanks