Game 57: Kingdomino

 Kingdomino was one of my birthday gifts this week.  It has been on my wish list since our friends the Kirks introduced us to it earlier this year.  It is the 2017 Game of the Year award winner, and it is very deserving of the award.  In this game each player builds his kingdom (a 5x5 grid) using domino-shaped terrain tiles.  Each domino must be placed in such a way that at least one of its halves touches terrain of the same type orthogonally.  The start-tile for each person is a 1x1 square that is "wild;" terrain of any type may be played against this piece.  Points are scored by multiplying the number of tiles of a given territory (all connected) by the number of crowns appearing on tiles in that territory.  The player with the highest total wins.
 Above is a picture of the game after 3 turns.  Below is a picture as we near completion of our kingdoms.  We use "king meeples" to select the terrain domino that we want.  The next set of 4 dominoes to select from is set out, and the numbered backs are used to arrange them.  The person who chose the lowest numbered domino the round before has first choice of domino in the next round.  Given the set-up below, green will choose first and yellow last in the next round.
The following picture is of our last round.  I'd been happy with my tile selections, but my choices of placement didn't allow me to complete a 5x5 grid, whereas David and Jacob both finished their grids - as seen in the final 3 pictures of this post.
Mine was worth 44 points:
Jacob's was worth 62 points:
David got 59 points:
Congratulations, Jacob, on a game well played!

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