Let's Go! To Japan

This is an interested card-drafting, point salad kind of game. There are 13 rounds, and you're picking up 1/2/4 cards (depending on the round), playing 1/2 of them and passing the other/s on to your opponents.

You play cards onto areas below your boards for a 6-day trip to Japan. Each of the days has a particular bonus icon, and you need to decide whether to play them behind or on top of current cards - the one you lay on the top is your 'highlight of the day' and that has extra scoring conditions on it - usually you'll have to have particular icons that day or the days preceding it. It's definitely worth trying to get these!

There are also mild physical and economical stresses, which make you unhappy, and zen and cheap activities that make you happy. Both of these may give or deduct points if you're not careful.

At the end of the week you score everything, so you don't know who has won until the end - I like that.

The cards are beautiful, and there are so many quirky activities - visiting temples, eating amazing meals, shopping, and visiting a cat café and letting the cats sit on you (which was mildly physically challenging, apparently!).

I really enjoyed it.