Asmodee

Ink

Name: Ink
Brand: Asmodee
Price: 42.99 EUR
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Non adatto sotto i 3 anni. Piccole parti, rischio di soffocamento.

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🖋️🎨 INK – Contracts, rondels and ink tiles: paint dots with precision

INK is an abstract board game where ink is beautiful… but unforgiving: every tile you place on your “board” changes the present and, above all, the future of your choices.

Your goal is to complete valuable contracts by building harmonious patterns with ink tiles. It seems spontaneous, but underneath lies an elegant malice: planning, shape-reading, and pure optimization.

Here art is not “doing beautiful”: it is doing right .

Between tile placement , resource management, and pattern recognition, INK demands only one thing from you: a balance of eye and control. Poor placement doesn't just lose you points... it closes off avenues.

The rhythm revolves around a wheel that forces you to choose your timing and priorities: what you do now determines what you can do later. And if you enjoy quiet puzzles, it also works great as a solitaire board game .

Taste at the table

It's the kind of board game that makes you say, "OK, one more contract and then I'll stop"... and then you find yourself recalculating a corner because that blue can't end there.

Because INK grabs you (and won't let go)

🧩 Pattern building : creating “clean” combinations is pure satisfaction
📜 Contracts : clear objectives, always tense choices
🌀 Rondel : Timing and planning without unnecessary downtime
🖤 Abstract puzzle : easy to read, hard to master

The real difficulty

It's not about "scoring points": it's about not wasting space . Every well-placed tile opens up a future for you; every poorly-placed tile takes away your breath.

For whom it is perfect

For those who love abstract board games with elegance and tension, tile-placement puzzles, and the feeling of total control… until the rondel asks you to choose what to sacrifice.

INK is the art of choice: one stroke at a time, you transform chaos and smudges into perfect dots.

If you're looking for a clean, sharp, and abstract strategy board game , INK is that painting that looks at you and says, "Well done... now do it better."

🎯 COME SI GIOCA

Objective:inINK(strategic board game oftile placement) you must completecontractsas “rich” as possible, creating harmonious patterns on your painting with theink tilesto get a high score.

Resources and hand: prepare the moves before painting:during the game you manageresourcesAndcards in handto understand which tiles you can afford/get and which contracts are worth pursuing. It's not just "I place well": it's also choosingwith whatplace.

Turn: Choose and place an ink tile on your canvas:on your turn add an ink tile to yourcanvasPlacement must create useful shapes and connections, because each tile affects both your immediate points and the interlocking points you'll have available in subsequent turns.

Pattern Recognition: Match Contract Requirements:Contracts require specific configurations/patterns (shapes, adjacencies, balances). When you fulfill the requirements of a contract with your tiles, youcompleteand collect its value (usually the “higher value” it is, the more difficult and planning it requires).

Planning vs. Spontaneity (and Final Score):The game forces you to balance "good now" moves with moves that open up the future: if you close your net with impulsive placement, you won't be able to complete major contracts. At the end of the game, you add up the points from the completed contracts (and any associated bonuses), and whoever has created the most prestigious collection wins.

📦 CONTENUTO DELLA SCATOLA

Content:5 Starting Tiles, 95 Ink Tiles, 100 Colored Ink Bottles, 15 Black Ink Bottles, 10 Palette Cards, 1 Pen Wheel, 1 Bonus Action Board, 14 White Spot Tokens, 15 X Tokens, 20 XX Tokens, 12 Bonus Action Tiles, 1 Bag of Ink Tiles, 1 Bag of X Tokens, 8 Discs for Colorblind Players, 1 First Player Pen Token, 1 Rulebook, 1 Solo Mode Rulebook, 1 Bonus Action Reference Sheet, 16 Objective Number Tokens, 20 Colored Squares.

🖋️🎨 INK – One wrong move stains everything. One right move… becomes art.

Elegant Abstract : You place “ink,” complete commissions, and construct patterns that seem improvised… but are pure control.

Ink is unforgiving. You can't "fix it later." You can't pretend nothing happened. In INK, every tile is a brushstroke: beautiful, definitive, and full of consequences.

You want to create a painting that seems spontaneous. But beneath that spontaneity lies a mind that plans: harmonious patterns , spaces left on purpose, choices that prepare the next round.

The most beautiful part is the silence it creates: the one in which you look at your canvas and understand that just one tile can make blow up a contract … or shut the game down in your face.

And when you complete a "high" commission, you don't just feel the satisfaction of points. You feel that rare thing: It feels like you've made something of your own. Something clean. Something precise. INK is like this: simple to understand, tense to play. An abstract game that makes you feel like an artist... and a strategist, all in one.

You don't have to fill the canvas: you have to create harmony .

MECHANICS WITH SENSE – “Spontaneity is a choice, not an excuse”

INK teaches you one thing: if you want it to look natural, you have to build it. Each tile placed changes the balance: it opens a contract for you, it turns off another one, and above all it rewrites future possibilities.

The strong move is often the one that doesn't immediately score points, but sets up the perfect interlock. And then when you close a commission with a clean pattern, at the right time… It doesn't feel like a fluke. It feels like control . And yes: it feels like art.

Tile placement and patterns: beauty comes from planning

INK is an abstract strategic board game where you create paintings by completing commissions via Tile placement and pattern recognition. At the table, every choice is twofold: build your canvas now and, At the same time, decide what options you will have next, because hand and resource management force you to think ahead. It's a family-friendly yet refined board game , perfect if you're looking for smooth gameplay, visual satisfaction, and precise decisions: Here, the winner is not the one who does “more things,” but the one who makes the moves that make the picture coherent… and profitable.

What makes INK a unique board game

🖤 “Definitive” ink : few rules, choices that really matter
🧩 Harmonious patterns : the puzzle is aesthetic and strategic at the same time
📜 Contracts / commissions : clear objectives that guide decisions without tying you down
🃏 Hand and resource management : the real skill is to prepare the right shift
🎨 Visual satisfaction : at the end of the game you look at the canvas and your strategy "shows"

For whom it is perfect

For those who love abstract board games with clear choices, “silent” tension and an ending that makes you say: “ok, this is my canvas.”

INK is the beauty that comes from control: one tile at a time, you transform smudges into perfect decisions.

If you want a board game that is puzzle, aesthetic and strategy all in one, INK is the kind of game you finish… and then look back at like a painting hanging.

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