HYVE How to Play | Bits & Biology

Описание: Welcome to Bits & Biology, a channel about board games from the perspective of a biologist gamer. In this video I show you how to play HYVE, a worker placement roll & write game where you roll dice each turn that represent worker bees you will assign to various tasks to maintain and improve the hive. To win the game, you must either survive a full year, fill all six of your hives, or elevate your colony to "thriving" status. But be careful! Nature is not always kind - you will lose the game if your population ever drops below zero or if your colony reaches "colony collapse" status.

At the end of the video I point out differences between the nine difficulty levels, and highlight some of the other available variants.

Timestamps can be found below in case you want to skip around.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
0:52 Variants summary
1:07 Setup
2:08 Game overview
2:49 Win conditions
3:05 Loss conditions
3:21 Turn phases (there are six)
3:25 (1) Refresh (roll dice)
3:36 (2) Assign Workers
5:13 Bakery action space
5:41 Larval Chamber: Tend Eggs action space (Tend Larvae explained a little bit later)
6:20 Queen’s Attendants action space
10:14 Order of performing actions
10:39 (3) Gather Nectar
11:51 (4) Feed Bees
12:38 Fast forward to a more filled in board
13:05 Quick review of worker actions
13:26 Larval Chamber: Tend Larvae action space
16:01 Quick review of “Gather Nectar”
17:14 Scoring a completed hive
17:50 Gaining points using “wobbly scoring”
18:43 (5) Migration
19:09 Quick review of first 5 phases of a turn
19:47 (6) Season Effects
20:03 Losing points using “wobbly scoring”
21:00 Differences between difficulty levels
21:04 Difficulty level 0
22:55 Difficulty level 1
23:37 Difficulty level 2
24:01 Difficulty level 4
24:39 Difficulty level 5
25:43 Difficulty level 6
26:12 Difficulty level 7
26:44 Difficulty level 8
27:00 Other variants
29:27 Closing comments

Link to HYVE on Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4...

HYVE on Dicepen: https://shop.dicepen.pl/shp/products/...

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