It’s a perfect day at the beach, and surfers are on the lookout for the coolest longboards in town! In Longboard, you take on the role of a surfboard shaper, crafting the biggest and most stylish boards to establish your shop as the go-to spot for surfers.
Using tile placement and strategic drafting, players will build and expand their surfboards, making careful decisions about which pieces to add and when to trade. Each turn, you’ll have two actions to take, choosing from: Collecting surfboard pieces from the deck to your supply, placing pieces onto your boards, ensuring they match in color or are wild, with each new card needing to be equal to or greater in value than the one below, trading pieces with opponents, giving them multiple cards in exchange for a single piece that better fits your build.
Each surfboard piece features stickers that count toward your final score—completed boards (at least four cards long) earn you points, while unfinished boards cost you points. The game ends when a player completes three or four boards, with at least one being seven cards long, or when the deck runs out. Bonus points are awarded for having the longest completed board, the most completed boards, and for meeting any of the random objectives revealed at the start of the game.
With its light, competitive gameplay and easy-to-learn mechanics, Longboard is a fun, family-friendly game that brings the laid-back surf culture to your tabletop. Will you craft the most legendary longboard, or will your competition ride the wave to victory?
Manufacturer:
25th Century Games
Year Manufactured: 2022
Item Weight: 0.68 pounds
Item UPC: 850037822027
It's a beautiful day at the beach, and the surfers are out shopping for new boards. Create the coolest and biggest longboards to establish your surfboard-shaping shop as the best in town. Surf's up!
In Longboard, players draft and trade surfboard pieces as they attempt to build the tallest and most surfboards. More specifically, on a turn you take two actions, with three types of actions being possible:
- Add a card from the deck to your personal supply, that is, cards lying face up in front of you.
- Take a card from your supply to start or lengthen a board; all cards in a board have to be the same color (or wild) and each new card on a board must be equal to or greater in value than the card below it.
- Place one or more cards in your supply in an opponent's supply, then take a single card from their supply of value less than the sum of what you gave them and use this card to start or lengthen a board.
Each board card features 1-3 stickers, which count as points when the surfboard is complete, that is, when it contains at least four cards. When a player has 3-4 complete boards, at least one of which contains 7+ cards, they can choose to end the game. If that doesn't happen before the deck runs out, the game ends at that point. Players then score sticker points on completed boards, lose points for incomplete boards, and score bonus points if they have the longest completed board or the most completed boards or if they have completed any of the four random objective cards put into play at the start of the game.