IELLO: for The King (and Me), Strategy Board Game, A Comical Theme That The Whole Family Will Love, Auction and Collection Mechanics, for Ages 10 and Up

I didn't know that Biblios had a retheme after I read about this game on BGG. Nice game in a small box and great components (some people seem to miss the dice in Biblios, but for me the Title Ribbons are ok). Price for prime week was great.

Pros- Easy to learn and teach.- Fast to play (less than 30 minutes).- Small table space is enough to play.- Simple and smooth to play, making it playable after a long day at work.- Fun and exciting to play! The excitement on what cards you will get on your next turn, what cards will your opponent give you, on whether you should take the current card already or wait and hope that the next card might be better, how much would you bid for a card, all of this makes the game fun!- Not multiplayer solitaire. It's like Hanamikoji, you have to choose what cards you get and what cards to give to your opponent, which is very interesting.Neutral- The only reason this game could be replayable is its fun factor. Every game would just be the same, you collecting same color cards and try to increase those point values (or decrease other's point values). There will be not much variety on what you will do from game to game. It is just the fun and excitement that will make you want to play it again, not the strategy.Cons- The score markers are way too fiddly! They require a lot of maintenance during the game. Imagine this, there are 36 tokens (6 per color), which are hard to hold because of its irregular shape, and you have to constantly find the proper token to replace the current one among those that aren't used. That's very hassle and frustrating! They should have designed this like the previous game (Biblios) which is by dice instead of hard-to-hold and hard-to-find tokens.- The game doesn't offer much strategy nor tactical thinking. I'm not saying that this game is just about luck, no! It still requires you to decide and plan on things. But overall, at the end of the game, you'd still realize this is not a game like Arboretum or Jaipur which are games that require you to really plan and think ahead.

I really like board games and this one is well recommended and well designed but for some reason with my friends groups I have tried it with it isn’t popular and that fun yet. It’s a little counterintuitive to learn even though it’s good design. I’m going to keep it and play again but it’s not going to be in my “favorites” pile

Game is easy to learn and was a lot of fun at first but after a few play throughs I found myself not really wanting to play again. It’s not a bad game but maybe it just isn’t a game for me.