Stone Age is another game that we played on the first of the new year. It is currently one of my favorite games. The game has each player controlling a tribe of people that need to build up their village by collecting resources, building huts, adding people to the tribe, and feeding everyone.
I played the game with my son, Isaac, and my wife, Beth. Isaac started the game placing a worker in the agriculture area and I started off collecting tools rather than adding people to my tribe. For much of the first part of the game, of course, I chose to advance agriculture for my own tribe when I had the option, but focused initially on getting tools, while Isaac and Beth added people to their tribes. I managed to get some huts built a bit earlier than either of them, and collected culture cards, while only growing my tribe moderately closer to the end of the game.
At the final scoring of the game, I started off behind both Beth and Isaac, but we were all within a range of about 10 points. I scored my bonus cards first, and managed to nearly double my score, jumping to 150 points, mostly due to having the most unique culture cards. Beth came around but had about 10 points less than I did, but Isaac had some bonus points for how many people he had in his tribe which really boosted his score, so he finished in first place with over 170 points.
