Three Sisters Review

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We review Three Sisters, a roll and write board game published by 25th Century Games. In Three Sisters, players are trying to earn the most points by crossing off boxes in a variety of areas of their garden.

I don’t have too many garden themed games in my collection, despite being an avid gardener. The one that probably gets the most tabletop time is a roll and write, Harvest Dice, from way back in 2017. The game is super simple, yet we still enjoy playing it.

Well, I’m ready to break out my green thumb again as a gardening-themed roll and write with a lot more depth has made its way to BGQ HQ. Three Sisters is a game published by 25th Century Games and designed by the team of Ben Pinchback and Matt Riddle. If you like checking boxes and lots of combos, this one might be a game for you. Let’s find out!

While the overall gameplay of Three Sisters isn’t that complicated, there are a lot of things going on. On a player’s turn, they choose one of the available dice from the central board to draft. The chosen die has two benefits. First, they can plant or water in the field on their sheet that matches the die number. To plant, they mark off two boxes in columns without any markings. To water, they add a box to every column in that field that already has one. The goal is to fill columns all the way to the top to earn victory points.

The other benefit of the die is being able to take the action from the space the die was drafted from. These will give you ways to fill in other areas of your sheets. Each set of sheets has a number of different areas that will give you plenty of ways to score points. For example, you can head to the Apiary and its split tracks, or maybe the fruit trees that give a few bonuses in addition to