Featured Game - Art Decko

Featured games are our way of teaching new games and highlighting something we think our players may enjoy or take note of. We'll explain from scratch how to play the game with a detailed description and demonstrate a few turns, then break into tables to actually play it. Each week it'll be something new, but will run the spectrum of different lengths, complexities, themes, and game mechanics. So if this week's game doesn't interest you, feel free to look again next time around!

Art Decko is a game in which players buy art, then try to sell or exhibit it to earn points. Throughout most turns, you'll buy a painting or put it on display at the museum. The more a genre of art is used, the more money and points it'll be worth at the end of the game. While exhibiting art generally is worth more points, each exhibit also has specific conditions on what kind of art it considers valuable or even accepts. A successful player will have to balance out the value or paintings and whether it's better to hold onto them for more money, or sell them for more points!

Art Decko is a game for up to 4 players and should take about 45 minutes for experienced players to play. It has a complexity of 2.24 according to BoardGameGeek, making it an easy game compared to games typically featured here.

Read the rules here: https://www.riograndegames.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Art-Decko-Rules-small-no-marks.pdf
Watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLbrJqzi9Rc (note that this contains both instructions and a full game played)

If this is your first time with this group, you should see a link to our Discord group once you've signed up for this event. You may join any time before the event begins to get to know people, but once this event starts, we'll typically join the Lobby voice chat, then move to another voice chat once we've gotten started. Note that I, as the game teacher, will share my screen to show how the game works, but all other interaction will be voice only, no video, so no need to look presentable first. The game itself will be played using Board Game Arena - please create an account on this site beforehand.