The two “common” tricks, those that appear in every session, allow you to reroll the dice buried in your yard or draw an extra dog respectively. It’s rare, for example, that your so-called opponents - I prefer to think of them as fellow canine dads - aren’t worth considering, even though their impact is limited to the tricks they’re liable to select. There’s some degree of management within a turn itself, especially when it comes to parceling out your limited rerolls, but the game’s fuller state is one of careful preparation and assessment. Maybe you reroll them.īut Spots can be more devious than it first appears. This also guarantees a careful selection: one trick for picking up treats, another for safe rolls, one for risky handfuls of dice, and a final category where the stranger abilities reside. Apart from two standard tricks, there are four broad categories to choose from, ensuring that every session might be a little bit different. Whichever trick isn’t selected receives a doggy treat - useful for rerolls - and the remainder become available for selection once more. There are always six on offer, although this number wanes as tricks are selected. A turn consists of picking a trick from the middle of the table. From a micro perspective, it might even seem underwhelming. Rather than staging its chances entirely within the span of a single turn, it asks players to consider longer durations.
Speaking mechanically, Spots is an uncharacteristic press-your-luck game. As if to prove that truism, she then rolled anyway. Even though she couldn’t explain the reason for her reluctance, risk assessment is a skill every human has a passing understanding of, even if we’re utterly terrible at parsing odds. The other day, she noted her hesitance to roll again because the only openings she had left to fill were 4s and 5s. Not only for the dogs, but also because she’s at the age where she’s beginning to grasp the limitless realm of probability. My eight-year-old frequently requests it. It would be an error to think its appeal ends there. Like the rest of Perry’s adventures in tabletop game design - and digital game design too, come to think of it - Spots is uncomplicated enough for a kid to play. Such an eventuality effectively forces you to start from scratch, with the exception that any finished dogs, those you filled with spots and then spent a turn scoring, are safe forevermore, secure in the comfort of their bespotted fur.Įasy. Bury too many dice and you’ll bust, losing all your dice, both those buried in the yard and those waiting atop your dogs. The only risk is that your dogs are frolicsome and will bury any dice that don’t happen to line up with an open slot. Put one and two together and you get two thousand.Īt its core, Spots is about rolling dice and using them to make the spots that are missing from its dogs’ coats. As near as I can tell, Spots casts you as somebody who adores dogs. You aren’t even, strictly speaking, the dogs. It seems appropriate that there’s no official story here. According to Spots, the only thing that can make a good dog better is some additional spots.
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