At first glance, Harmonies is a disarming little game about placing blissfully colored tokens on a simple hexagonal board with few restrictions. The art aims for softness and has a children's book quality in the way it renders pictures of friendly forest animals. But beyond the looks here hides a web of thorns of delicious point scoring for token placement creating landscapes and representation of animal habitats. I will happily play this gem of a game anytime.
You put out 35 titles in a grid and you have to quickly remember which one is which after they are flipped face down. Where the magic happens is that you tell stories to facilitate based on the shapes, their placement on the grid, and what they are adjacent to. I still remember the first time I played five months ago where we built a story of a math teacher who was passionate about the arts. That is what the game does, and in that game, we had a 90% success rate at saying what tiles were flipped down.
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