Applejack
- Designer: Uwe Rosenberg
- Publisher: The Game Builders
- Players: 1-4
- Age: 8+
- Time: 30-60 minutes
- Played with review copy provided by publisher at SPIEL 2022
So, Uwe Rosenberg might be best known for his epic games (Agricola, Feast of Odin, etc). But he’s also made a bunch of card games, and in recent years, lots of tile laying games. Applejack falls into the tile laying genre, but this time with hexagonal tiles; a shape I don’t think he’s ever used before.
The publisher entices you with this description: “A wide orchard lies in front of Applejack’s cottage. Help him and his daughter plant apple trees and harvest the juicy apples. Don’t forget to set up the beehives between the trees. Because at the end of this game, whoever gets the most honey wins!” We previewed this game around SPIEL 2022, but now that we’ve had a chance to play a few more times, it seemed like a good time to revisit the game.