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Art for box cover
Components Close Up
Grandstands from Behind
Drafts of some of the Barker card designs.
Prototype of the 3D chipboard standees (seen here with MeepleSource meeples)

Barker's Row (2018)

Players
2–4
Best: 2, 3
Playing time
25–50 min
Age
12+
6.38
Average rating
417
Ratings
1.57/5
Weight
#8634
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Steven Aramini
Artist:Andrea Olgiati
Publisher:Overworld Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 5, Complexity 3.1, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity3.1
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Card GameHand ManagementOpen Drafting

Overview

Barker's Row is a 2-4 player game in which you are a carnival barker trying to fill your 3D chipboard seats with "rube" meeples by playing the most fantastic attractions.

You draft these barker cards from a community pool and play them into the midway. Then you use those cards to play one of fifty or so attractions that will amaze and delight the rube meeples in your seats while giving you a special power to use later in the game. Stay tuned for some drafts of these attractions, such as Lobster Boy, Goose-Necked Girl, and the Fiji Mermaid. Each time you play an attraction, you climb higher on the strongman tower, making the next one harder to play, serving as an elegant and thematic catch-up mechanism. The player to first fill all their seats wins!

Expansions

Barker's Row: Attraction Pack #1
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