Games are technologies that help individuals and groups think in novel ways, so it totally tracks that a game about space bees would utilize the latest and greatest in worker placement technology.

That’s Apiary, a game that’s a blend of high-tech worker placement wizzbangs and classic resource converter conventions, for better—and in some cases—for worse.

Bees in the trap

In Apiary, you’re space bees, developing your personal hive board with resources that you collect throughout your bee-space-odyssey: Water, green Chex Mix breadsticks (fiber), yellow splats (pollen), Rollos (wax), and honey pots.

Space bees are remarkably similar to regular bees in that they fly around and land on things and collect them for use by the hive, which I suppose is you, the player. Disclosure: I know nothing about bees other than the one summer I stayed with an apiarist on a bike tour. 

You have four rotatable rectangular plastic bees with numbers that range in from 1-4. This represents their strength, and when you place them on different action spaces, stronger workers can do more powerful actions, and in the case of several spaces, you sum the strengths of the bee that is on the other space to do great stuff. Strength 4 bees typically grant a more powerful…

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