The grid only shows the order of their placement. There’s an element of randomness at play. The cards that establish the grid’s parameters also show where each soldier must be placed. Like everything that will follow, setting up The Lucky Seven is effortless. Soldier by soldier, you arrange them on a grid. What’s the deal? Maybe one of them doesn’t get used during setup.Įxcept they do get used during setup. If you’re paying attention, it dawns on you that there are eight soldiers, not seven.
The Pacifist, refusing to bend under the weight of all that spare ammo, face concealed behind Coke-bottle glasses. The Anvil and the Hammer, built like contrasting barrels. The Joker, waving his helmet on the end of his rifle. There’s the Leader, standing tall despite the sizzle of tracer rounds overhead. At the outset, you’re presented with soldierly archetypes that could have been ripped straight from a WWII flick. That gag, by the way, is the source of the game’s title. Here’s one better: unlike his previous solitaires, this one isn’t quite like anything else. The first project of his design collective is now out. Now that Zachtronics has been shuttered, it seems he’s shifting his attention from digital to tabletop. So it’s safe to say that Barth knows solitaire card games. When it comes to a simple deck of cards, Barth displays an ear for riffing on established designs, producing new and more interesting versions of FreeCell, cribbage, and one of the most devious solitaire games I’ve ever had the pleasure of suffering through, a ditty by the name of Fortune’s Foundation that wields a tarot deck like a rusty knife. While his studio, Zachtronics, was perhaps best known for its high-concept engineering and programming titles like SpaceChem and Infinifactory, I was more preoccupied with his solitaire offerings. Even though he has only the sole credit to his name on BoardGameGeek, it wouldn’t be fair to call Zach Barth a newcomer to card game design.
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