Project L (Standard Edition)

Project L (Standard Edition)

Project L is a quick, delightful, puzzly little engine building game. In this game you are completing small puzzles using well-crafted plastic polyomino pieces. Completing puzzles often gives you victory points and contributes to your engine by rewarding you with additional polyomino pieces. When you start the game you have only two pieces (a 1x1 square and a 2x1 rectangle). By the end of the game you have 10 or more pieces of all sizes and shapes. The real magic of the game is in the (once per turn) master builder action which allows you to add one piece to as many incomplete puzzles as you'd like. All of a sudden, you might complete multiple puzzles in one action or receive as a reward the piece you need to complete another puzzle on your next action. The master builder action gives you plenty of opportunities to feel clever. I recently taught this game to a bunch of groups of people at a Con where I was helping in the library and every group was delighted with it. I highly recommend Project L for play in a variety of situations.

Just love this little game. So quick and easy to learn and play.

Project L (Standard Edition)

Project L looks like a puzzle game but plays more like an engine builder. Solving puzzles earns you new, better pieces and usually victory points, and there's a tension between trying to earn points fast or building up a reserve of larger, better polyominoes to solve those puzzles with. Games take about 15 minutes for two players, which avoids the typical problem engung builders have where you sit around for 30+ minutes already knowing you've lost. I highly recommend this game.