Quick Peaks – Sweet Victory!, Elementra , Blitz Creed, Clans of Caledonia: Industria, Qomet

Sweet Victory! - Justin Bell

I’m a huge fan of the ThinkFun catalog. ThinkFun, a puzzle game line in the Ravensburger catalog, has delivered for our family in the past, from Rush Hour Junior to Gravity Maze to Zingo 1-2-3 to the Cold Case games. We still have a number of ThinkFun games on our shelves. Sweet Victory! is the newest release from ThinkFun, and as a standalone puzzle for one person, it’s not bad.

Using a set of tiles set on four plastic pillars, a small deck of cards is used to show each round’s new challenge, which is essentially a way to move the game’s nine tiles into a new combination. With three colors and a number on each tile (1, 2, or 3, across blue, green, and pink tiles), the goal is to get tiles into a new position while only using one hand and a few other minor rules to get everything into position. As a solo, it’s fine.

Unfortunately, Sweet Victory! is a competitive game with no solo mode. In this format, players are racing to complete a card’s challenge first. “There’s not much of a game here,” commented my 11-year-old after our first family play with four players. “But I like playing around with the…

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