Holi Moley
HOLI
Designer: Julio E Nazario | Publisher: Floodgate Games
PLAYED
The great festival of colours, Holi sees celebration of the arrival of Spring through colour, a beautiful Hindu festival full of fun and powdered paint. Though my personal experience of flinging paint only gets as far as an ill advised university paint party, all the fun of flinging paint at someone else and getting to see the result has here been translated beautifully into a multilayer area control game (without the student debt).
Everything about this game is delightful to the senses. Instead of a standard flat lay board, you’ll construct an impressive three tiered game area. Instead of a standard meeple, you’ve got great animal meeples, and brightly coloured paint tokens to match to it. The layers that make up the tiers themselves are plastic, with grooves for the grids, preventing a colour merge, and cleverly ensuring any accidental knocks of the board by player or overcurious cat won’t spell the end of the game. It feels robust and sunny, from the very first look at the box, through to its being full of colour, and all the way up to including GameTrayz designs that see you able to put the game away securely at the end.