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Fliptown Review: Fortune and Glory Await in the Wild West!

29/06/24, 0 comments

It's an inhospitable land, and you get to decide how you'll earn a living. Playing Poker, mining gold, or living as an outlaw? You can also make new discoveries, profit in town, or even pillage the graveyard. In Fliptown, you get to choose your destiny, but you'll also pay for it.

Por Cesar Cusin

traducido por Joey

revisado por Tabata Marques

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1. > The Wild West

The Wild West

Oh, the Wild West! So many stories, movies, TV shows, and children's games are based on it. The Wild West is also known as the Old West, or the American Frontier.

There are many countless movies centered around this theme, namely the "spaghetti westerns". Among these, the Trinity series stands out, starred by the iconic Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.

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Fliptown, without a question, works out many abilities, to name a few: your focus, math skills, strategies, resource management, decision-making, and many others.

You'll have to pay attention and focus at all times because keeping an eye on your card options and deciding where you want to go every turn is essential to get the most out of your card's suit and value.

This is the perfect segue for decision-making, as, of course, any time you pick something, you'll be leaving something behind. This might be difficult at times, but it is a great opportunity to show kids (and adults) that every decision is difficult. You should still make them, and bear their consequences and the frustrations they create.

You'll also have to use your math skills, either when you play the Poker match, or when you work out the card values and where they'll take you. Getting more experience in a location by using the value of your cards may make a lot of sense, but how much this will give you in terms of money or gold is something you should calculate.

Managing all of these resources is also essential; you may swap gold for points or keep them to mitigate your luck, for instance. So, managing your resources makes all the difference in the world in Fliptown.

Finally, last but not least, you need to manage all of this as wisely as you can to get the most out of your actions each turn. Some of them will give you other bonuses, and this might let you make more than one action per turn. Believe me, this makes a difference!

The main lessons in Fliptowns are: keep your focus, pay attention to your strategy at all times, and know how to bear the consequences of your choices. These are immeasurable life lessons!

I highly recommend you add Fliptown to your collection!!