{"id":15432,"date":"2016-12-01T20:18:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:41:30","slug":"la-granja-no-siesta-the-dice-game-video-english-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/2016\/12\/01\/la-granja-no-siesta-the-dice-game-video-english-version\/","title":{"rendered":"La Granja No Siesta &#8211; The Dice Game (+ Video) (English version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2016\/12\/11\/la-granja-no-siesta-the-dice-game-video\/1368-no-siesta-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15428\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-1.png\" alt=\"1368-no-siesta-1\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-1.png 373w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-1-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-1-119x160.png 119w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-1-183x245.png 183w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-1-254x340.png 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2016\/11\/07\/dreams\/sony-dsc-364\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Swa-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">SwatSh<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> 7\/10<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andreas Odendahl (Ode), the designer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2015\/07\/18\/la-granja\/\">La Granja<\/a>, propose us the dice version of his very good game.<\/p>\n<p>We can find a lot of elements of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2015\/07\/18\/la-granja\/\">La Granja <\/a>in this dice version: First of all the theme, the caps, the roof of our farm and all the animals &amp; legumes.\u00a0 We lose the cards mechanism with all their different functionalities.\u00a0 Otherwise, we gain a new dice mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>This dice mechanism is near the one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2013\/12\/26\/blueprints\/\">Blueprints<\/a>: the dice draft.\u00a0 The active player roll all the dices and take one.\u00a0 Every other players, in turn, take one too.\u00a0 The active player reroll the rest of the dices and take a second dice.\u00a0 The others take one too.\u00a0 Finally, there\u2019s one dice left which is rolled a last time by the active player.\u00a0 All the players receive the resource showed by the last dice.<\/p>\n<p>The 6 sides of a dice represent the same 6 resources.\u00a0 When a player takes a dice, he takes the represented resource.\u00a0 And this is where the genius of Ode speaks.\u00a0 As you roll and often reroll the dices, it is very rare that you are not satisfied with the outcome of the dice roll.\u00a0 Moreover, No Siesta is perfectly balanced so that a resource is worth another. La Granja No Siesta is one of the only dice games where we not complain about the results of the dice rolls!<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the game is more classic. With the acquired resources, we will fill in our personal plateau that represents his farm on a paper. We will check on the sheet the received resources depending on where you want to spend them:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2016\/12\/11\/la-granja-no-siesta-the-dice-game-video\/sony-dsc-401\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15433\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-4-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-4-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-4-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-4-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-4-368x245.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-4-511x340.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First to hire helpers<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0They are key in your strategy because they will bring you profits as special abilities that can transform resources into other resources, spare some resources, win more points when you realize this or that &#8230; \u00a0We will necessarily rush on this action early in the game and follow the strategy we have chosen. \u00a0La Granja No Siesta is quite simple and offers 4 large different strategies that can be combined:<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improve the roof of your farm<\/strong> will make you gain VPs and resources<\/li>\n<li><strong>Store your resources in the warehouse<\/strong> will bring you some VPs. This is the weakest action but it can, thanks to helpers and abilities, become profitable and be combined with other actions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fulfill one of its three carts<\/strong>. It is the action that provides the most tension as the first player to fill each of the carts will win more VPs than others. When several players choose this strategy, a kind of race between them occurs and No Siesta can become more exciting. This is the most profitable action of the game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collect lots of 3 identical resources to travel<\/strong>.\u00a0 This action brings you a lot of VPs but is very difficult to achieve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2016\/12\/11\/la-granja-no-siesta-the-dice-game-video\/sony-dsc-402\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-5-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-5-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-5-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-5-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-5-368x245.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-5-511x340.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe majority of your choice in La Granja No Siesta will be during the first rounds where you are going to hire some helpers that will influence the strategy you will follow the rest of the game. Once the strategy chosen, the rest of the game is very. Players who will be in the race of the carts will enjoy a little more in their race. The games will not be very different because once the few different strategies chosen, the games will look like the others. The different locations of the farm where you can spend your resources are perfectly balanced.\u00a0 It allows you to always find an effective solution to spend the resources produced by the dice. No Siesta is ideal to use as an introduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2015\/07\/18\/la-granja\/\">La Granja <\/a>\ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2016\/12\/11\/la-granja-no-siesta-the-dice-game-video\/sony-dsc-403\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-2-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-2-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-2-368x245.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-2-511x340.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2016\/11\/07\/dreams\/sony-dsc-366\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15197\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ren-3-e1477137135283-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Ren<\/span><\/strong>:<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08,5 \/10<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good news today, this review of La Granja No Siesta will give us the opportunity to understand the creative process of the authors, those wonderful wizards full of imagination and new ideas, those creators of original concepts, always renewed. Let&rsquo;s hear from them:<\/p>\n<p>Andreas: \u00ab\u00a0Ach what am I going to create as new game after the huge success of La Granja?\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nHenning: \u00ab\u00a0you have no idea?\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nAndreas: \u00ab\u00a0Ach no\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nUli: \u00ab\u00a0why not an extension?\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nAndreas: \u00ab\u00a0Ach I would like to, I thought about it, but my Excel is broken, so I can not create a new spreadsheet \ud83d\ude41\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nHarald: \u00ab\u00a0and why not a new version with dices?\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nAndreas: \u00ab\u00a0Ach is it not a trick used by everybody those days?\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nHenning: \u00ab\u00a0you don&rsquo;t care, as long as \u00ab\u00a0La Granja\u00a0\u00bb is in the title you will hit the jackpot and see the money flowing to you!\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nAndreas: \u00ab\u00a0Ach aren&rsquo;t dices present in La Granja already?\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nUli: \u00ab\u00a0you don&rsquo;t care, as long as \u00ab\u00a0La Granja\u00a0\u00bb is in the title you will hit the jackpot and see the money flowing to you!\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\nAndreas: \u00ab\u00a0Ach gut gut, letz go! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>And here we go, you now know a little bit more about the incredible creative explosion happening in the heads of our gaming geniuses!<\/p>\n<p>In La Granja No Siesta we therefore remain in a familiar environment: you are going to manage your farm, collect some goods, develop your farm, deliver your goods&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course you have a few differences: dices are not actions to be realized following their results but instead resources you collect immediatly (but the process to choose the dices remain the same). Your farm is represented by a sheet on which you will write the resources you collect and use. And the actions are different. But at the end the feeling is roughly the same: optimization of your game. Many different ways of scoring points. And all this in your nice little farm, with nice little pigs, nice little wheats, nice little olives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you like La Granja you will like La Granja No Siesta. And vice-versa. And by the same token if you don&rsquo;t like one you will not like the other. And if you know none of both, don&rsquo;t be shy and accept a game of La Granja No Siesta, it is a good game!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2016\/08\/30\/star-wars-rebellion-video\/attachment\/14306\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-14306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1P-Pascal1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Pascal<\/span><\/strong>:<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7,5\/10<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cool, here is a game that encourages you you to take a rest. This version of La Granja has the same themse as the original game, but it&rsquo;s based on dices.\u00a0 The complexity is\u00a0thus slightly lower.<\/p>\n<p>The material is nice and the box is small, making it ideal for you next travels.<\/p>\n<p>The player turn is organised in 2 main phases.\u00a0 This first phase is for acquiring resources thanks to the dices.\u00a0 The second phase is for using the acquired resources in different places in your farm.\u00a0 All the different possibilities are quite well balanced : choices are difficult !<\/p>\n<p>In thr first turns, you must engage helpers that will facilitates the development in one or another place in your farm.\u00a0 These helpers will give the direction for your strategy for the rest of the game.\u00a0 It&rsquo;s difficult to change the strategy later &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The interaction between players is too limited : it&rsquo;s mainly in the choice of the dices, and when placing tokens at the market (places are limited !)<\/p>\n<p>La Granja &#8211; La Siesta is thus a small and enjoyable game.\u00a0 Nothing really new, but for the limited price, you will have a good time !<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/2016\/12\/11\/la-granja-no-siesta-the-dice-game-video\/sony-dsc-400\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15427\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-6.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"4592\" height=\"3056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-6.jpg 4592w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-6-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-6-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-6-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-6-368x245.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1368-No-Siesta-6-511x340.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4592px) 100vw, 4592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Vin d&rsquo;jeu d&rsquo;video<\/span>: the degustation in\u00a04 minutes\u00a0of No Siesta\u00a0with <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Ren<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Granja: The Dice Game - No Siesta! (Vin d&#039;jeu d&#039;video) (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9KUXb2DlF34?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Andreas Odendahl (Ode), the designer of La Granja, propose us the dice version of his very good game. We can find a lot of elements of La Granja in this dice version: First of all the theme, the caps, the roof of our farm and all the animals&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4848],"tags":[817,323,7],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-initie","tag-pascal","tag-ren","tag-swatsh","annee-1090","auteurs-andreas-odendahl","editeurs-stronghold-games","illustrateurs-harald-lieske"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59454,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions\/59454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindjeu.eu\/prd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}