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Sorry. Wanted to participate in the new Lemmy meme but this is the only corn related thing I could think of ๐Ÿ™

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[โ€“] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is! Figure the gears would give it away .

Just extra nice corn tokens instead of the included cardboard chits. It's probably the most corn focused game I know of unless there's a game out there specifically about growing corn in Iowa or something.

[โ€“] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I own the game but I never played it. I'm a huge Mesoamerican history nerd so I picked it up for my collection.

For the record (to be that guy):

  1. Crystal skulls are all fake and created in the mid 19th century.

  2. Kukulkan and Quetzalcoatl are basically the same deity.

  3. The game has the "Mayan Calendar" as a subtitle but uses Piedra del Sol as their calendar. Which isn't a calendar in the first place but has calendar dates on it, that's like putting bible verses on a wall and calling it the bible. Also it's Aztec not Mayan.

[โ€“] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sadge about the crystal skull thing. They're among the coolest bits I've seen in any game!

Still despite the historical inaccuracies it's still a stellar worker placement hand with a super unique mechanic where the longer you leave workers on a space the more valuable they get! The cog turning everything is just super neat too! Definitely try it sometime :D

[โ€“] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

If I had someone to play it with me I would be delighted. I would tell them the same things I just typed and hope they would call me a dork.

[โ€“] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

We always say that when we add corn at the end of each turn no one takes first player :>

[โ€“] Profilename1@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Corn for the corn gods!