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Some of the components in Puzzle Strike 2

This game needs more love, so here's a picture of me crashing my entire gem pile! This meant I was sending 27 gems to that puny dragon. He crumbled under his own pile and woke up days later with a headache.

Puzzle Strike 2 (2022)

Players

1–4

Best: 2, 3

Playing time

20–60 min

Age

13+

7.32

Average rating

430

Ratings

2.62/5

Weight

#5571

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:David Sirlin

Publisher:Sirlin Games

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck5.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity5.2

Theme6.0

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

Card GameFantasyVideo Game ThemeVariable Player PowersHand ManagementDeck, Bag, and Pool Building

Overview

The cast of Fantasy Strike has acquired magical gems which give power, but at what price? Those who hold too many gems are cursed forever. What’s worse, the ultimate gem to rule them all has been forged into a single, mighty scepter. Whoever holds it wields even more power at an even greater price.

In Puzzle Strike 2, players build their deck as they play, giving them the tools to arrange and manipulate their set of colored gems. These gems can be “crashed” (destroyed) in order to build up power for four different super moves as well as to flood other players with more gems. As this process unfolds, gems will fly back and forth between players as they desperately try to remain under the threshold of corruption. Holding the scepter “helps,” but can also doom the greedy.

—description from the publisher