We review Vinyl: Jukebox, a two player bag building game published by Talon Strike Studios. In Vinyl: Jukebox, players are trying to collect records for their jukebox in this push your luck game.
Growing up with parents who came of age in the 60s means that it wasn’t uncommon to come home to the Beach Boys or Johnny Cash blasting from the stereo. The music of our past and our parents’ pasts becomes a part of us as we grow up. Will this game leave such a lasting impression?
Vinyl: Jukebox brings the tunes of the past to your table in a two player bag building race to create the best playlist.
On your turn in Jukebox: Vinyl, you will do one of two things: “insert coins” and possibly buy a 45, or empty your coin box.
If you choose to insert coins, you will draw coins, one at a time, from your bag and place them onto the leftmost empty space of one of two rows on your player board. Each of these rows has four slots, and you may choose to draw until all slots in both rows are full, or you may stop at any time you choose. The two rightmost slots are special in that, when you place coins on them, your opponent will also get to draw a coin and place it onto their own display. Once you are done drawing coins you may either buy a 45 by spending coins that match all three criteria (year, genre, and side A or B). Spent coins are placed in your coin box area, and the 45s token is placed in the 3×3 display area of your jukebox board.
If, when you place a 45s token in your display, it completes a row or column of three, you may immediately take a scoring token for that row/column. For example, if you have three records from the 60s in a row, you may take a scoring token that awards points for having 3 albums from the 1960s. On the
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Johnny Cash