So Clover Board Game: An Honest Review, How To Play

When building your board game collection, you want to be sure you have a wide range of games that fit into different categories and accommodate various players.

So if you’re in the market for your next light-hearted cooperation game, So Clover might just fit the bill.

Games like this one serve as a good “starter” game for a fun game night.

It requires very little to play, meaning you can play it just about anywhere and it requires very little to set up.

What is the So Clover board game?

The So Clover game is a cooperative word association game that I discovered somewhat recently.

It’s a follow-up game to Just One, another Repos Production game.

It’s very easy to learn, you don’t need a lot to be able to play and it’s both challenging and fun for all ages.

Basically, it’s the perfect type of game for a wide range of people.

While it’s classified as a party game, as a disclaimer, it doesn’t play quite as many people as most other party games.

How to play the So Clover board game

The game comes with clovers that double as whiteboards, erasable markers and a square deck of clue cards.

At the beginning of each round, each player will randomly place four clue cards on their clover board.

Then, each player must come up with a one-word hint that relates to the outer-most keywords words on each side. The player will write a hint on the side of the clover with the erasable marker.

For example, in the above photo, a player wrote “Blue” for the hints “Lady” and “Dinosaur”. (Hopefully, the fellow players will be Jurassic Park fans).

The clue cards create a unique puzzle on the green clover.

Then, each player removes their four clue cards and then adds a fifth card to the stack of clues. To clarify, players do need to remember the placement of their cards.

One by one, each player shares their empty clover board and presents the five clue cards to the remaining players. The team then works cooperatively to correctly place the clue cards. The clue giver must not give any additional hints.

When the players are locked in, the clue giver will say if the cards are in the right places or not.

Players win the most points if the board is correct on the first try. Players only get two tries to correctly guess the right placement.

At the end of the game, tally up your total score as a group. The game includes a score chart to tell you how you did, and you can also keep a record of your scores and try to beat your last high score.

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So Clover board game review: Is it worth it?

Worth is always subjective, but let’s discuss a few pros and cons of the So Clover board game.

The pros:

It’s a great cooperative game and some of my friends said they even liked it better than Codenames.

While it’s similar to Codenames, it’s a bit more portable as you don’t need a whole lot of space to play it. In fact, you could easily play it sitting around a coffee table or just about anywhere as long as you have a spot to put your cards down and write.

It’s easy to learn and most players will pick it up rather quickly.

It takes up very little space and it creates a lot of fun conversations as players justify their answers.

The cons:

While I enjoy a cooperative game, I’m not sure that this should have been one.

I think there would have been a way to break players up into teams, even if that changes the recommended player count.

There just isn’t a lot of high stakes because there’s not really a win or lose … unless you get zero points and then you may want to question a few of your life decisions.

Another downside is that it really plays best with only about 3-4 people. It’s difficult for more people than that to solve a fairly simple puzzle and truly participate.

Again, this could be helped had the game been designed to be more competitive rather than cooperative.

This means, in my opinion, it’s not the best party game on the planet.

Still, it’s a lot of fun and it may be worth it to you to add it to your collection, depending on what you’re looking for in a game.

How many people can play So Clover?

This game plays between 3-6 players. However, it plays best with about 3-4 people instead.

It’s clever (pun intended) enough for adults and easy enough for tweens and teens.

Can kids play the So Clover board game?

I think this would be a great game for families. It’s recommended for ages 10 and up.

Average playtime lasts about 30 minutes. Really, you could probably make it either longer or shorter than that and just play it until you get tired.

So Clover was created by Repos Production games and is currently on Amazon for $24.99.

Have you played this cooperative word association game? What did you think? Let me know in the comments below.