Ghosts Galore

Ghosts Galore is a simple tile laying game in which you fill your own 3x3 board with tiles. Your player board is an underground mine. The tiles have tracks for mine carts, and monsters, and diamonds. The monsters score points in different ways. Diamonds have point values. You also want to lay your tracks to connect exits properly so that you can score points with them. 

You start the game with one tile in hand which is kept secret from everyone else. This is the last tile you will place in your mine. You have to plan your mine so that hopefully this last tile will fit well and score points well for you. 

Every round, there will be a stack of face-down tiles available, and everyone will eventually claim one to place in their mine. On your turn, you either reveal the top tile and decide whether to take it, or if there are already face-up tiles available, you may take one of them. Once all players but one have claimed a tile, any remaining face-down tiles are revealed and the last player must now claim their tile. 

There are nine monster types and they all score in different ways. For example golems score many points if you have many of them and they are not adjacent to one another. Satyrs score points based on how many different monster types are on the same track as they are on. Werewolves give you a good bonus if you have the most. A track is considered complete if it goes from one exit to another without interruption. Such tracks score 1 point per tile. There are two types of special exits - bone exits and tooth exits. Tracks which connect them score double. 

Jia Yaik's ghosts are earning him a ton of points. When you have three or more ghosts on the same track, they each score 6 points. Otherwise they only score 3 points each. 

At this point I had connected the two tooth exits and also a pair of regular exits. Skeletons earn 1 point per diamond icon. Earlier on in the game I had placed a golem tile incorrectly because I didn't know how to use the user interface properly. I had intended to place my golems so that they wouldn't be adjacent to one another. 

Ghosts Galore is a pretty simple tile laying game. It's pretty Euro, in that you are mostly playing in your own area. There is some player interaction, but it is not the aggressive type. You sometimes compete to grab tiles you need. Sometimes you want to avoid competing in the same categories so that others don't take what you need. There's a puzzle element as you try to fit the tracks properly and also fulfil the scoring conditions of the various monsters. It's cute, but for me not very memorable.