29th October 2019 Tuesday night at 'The Sovereigns' in Woking and it's game night at the Woking board game club. We started the evening with 'Heckmeck' AKA 'Pickomino'. Have you ever wondered what is a chicken's favourite food? It turns out that a chicken's favourite food is worms. But not just any worms, but roast worms! And not just any roast worms either, but BBQ roast worms! How many BBQ roast worms does a chicken like eating? As many as it can get. How does it get as many BBQ roast worms as it can? By pushing it's luck of course! That's what Heckmeck is about. Pushing your luck to accumulate as many BBQ roast worms as possible. What's in a game? There are 2 versions of Heckmeck, standard and deluxe. We played the standard version of the game. They use the following components:
How's it play? First there's setup.
The goal in Heckmeck is to roll and accumulate dice to get a score high enough to claim a domino. But here's a twist, at least one of those dice must have a worm result. How's this done? Keep reading.
Stacking is one of the things that makes Heckmeck stand out.
Like stacking, stealing is something I've not seen in a push your luck game before.
Endgame Play continues until there are no more face-up dominoes in the supply to collect. Players tally the worms they've collected, highest number of worms wins. Overall
Heckmeck is easy to learn and fairly quick to play. It has several excellent mechanics that give players tricky decisions to make. Choosing which sets to keep is crucial because of it 'locks out' numbers. Do you really want to take that single 5, because that means you can no longer get any more 5s. Decisions, decisions. The worm mechanic is also cool. Needing to have a worm result is an extra thing that can go wrong. Making a worm worth a 5 is genius, it puts players in the same quandary as rolling a 5. If a worm was only worth 1, taking it when it's only 1 worm would be a no-brainer. Finally, the stacking and stealing together is another great idea. If players just laid their tiles out in a line, then stealing them would be a bit too easy as the choice would be wider. However, since the dominoes are stacked, stealing is uncommon. When it does occur, it's something that should be taken advantage of! All of this adds up to make a good push your luck game. Heckmeck has very quickly become a favourite with nearly everybody I play it with. And deservedly so.
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