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Game Info
Year
2018
Players
1-4
Age
8+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
"Arraial" is the name given to traditional Portuguese summer celebrations during which people take to the streets eating, drinking, and having fun in the old neighborhoods that are bedecked with arches, colorful balloons, popular music, and the aroma of sweet basil.
In the game Arraial, players try to make their neighborhood traditional event the most popular by attracting visitors to their celebration. Grab the most beautiful decorations, hire the most inspired performers, serve the most traditional delicacies, take to the streets, and host the party of the year! Arraial is a fast-paced game in which players take turns spending action points to get the best tiles (decorations, artists...) and place them on their player boards to form the perfect match and attract visitors to their party. In the end, whoever attracts the most visitors in their neighborhood wins.
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 5:15 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Mech combat — Features a large 28mm mech with smaller 28mm figures, played on a small board.
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- The idea behind 3D printing is that I can go onto my minifactory and find a really weird specific interesting to me type of model that probably wouldn't sell well out in the real world if it was made in plastic
- We're not constantly line goes up up because not only do we have no shareholders we have to make happy we also don't have to do this this isn't our day job
- it's the more Choice um I don't really think it's actually about saving money
- the point of the game is to try and crawl to the highest spot so there's a lot of rules for pushing people off of things and falling off of things and stuff like that and climbing and things like that
- but they were a lot of fun to paint and they were very interesting and whatnot
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Rahdo Runs Through Top List at 18:44 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Very pretty
- Gateway game
- Family-level weight
- Fast playing
- Elegant
- Fantastic introduction to engine building
- Lovely little thing
- Works really well
- Perfect for gateway gamers
Cons
- A bit too lightweight for the host and Jen
- A little more swingy than they'd like
- Luck plays a big, big part
Thematic elements
- Revitalizing coral reefs and helping turtles travel
- Coral reefs
- The story involves turtles racing to surf a channel.
Comparison games
- Cascadia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — Players compete for leadership in revitalizing reefs or assisting turtles.
- Dice Drafting — Players roll dice and take turns drafting them, with the value and color determining actions.
- Engine Building — Players invest in infrastructure (cards) that grant bonuses for drafting certain types of dice, building up their engine.
- Set Collection — Players collect cards that grant bonuses for specific dice colors or actions.
- turn order influence — Turn order is highly influential, especially with a mini-game where players roll off to determine the next round's turn order.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a very very fast playing sharp game. um worker placement that you use to draft tiles or not tiles, cards uh to basically build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
- This is a very simple, elegant, fast playing game. And um but it is crunchy uh and you are really delused with tough decisions to make.
- I liken this game to kind of a mix between a um a deck building game and a slot machine because I mean deck builders are all kind of slot machines because you know every round you you pull on the handle and your deck spits out some stuff and then you try to make do with it.
- This deck builder has a bigger focus on um deck thinning than any other deck builder I've seen.
- great to have designer Phil Dubberry back. Uh, you know, one of the uh one of the, you know, one of the greats from now, seven or eight years ago, and you know, he we he's been um he's been on the down low for a while. haven't seen much from him, but now he's making a roaring and triumphant return to make one of the best um tableau engine building card games of recent years.
- The variety is really satisfying. Another great thing about it, it's one of those games where you follow that if somebody else does a really cool special power because they've got a lot of a faction and I've got some of that faction as well, even though it's not my turn, I can activate them. So, you're really intertwined.
- This is a uh game where we are running a uh a cinniplex, a movie theater and trying to invest getting more screens so we can show show more movies but also invest in the right movies that will tickle the fancies of the movie going public.
- Flip Town was phenomenal. I'm here to tell you right now, folks, Flip Voyage is even better.
- designer Steven Armen's um masterpiece as far as I'm concerned.
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 16:25 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Skull Forge Studios contributes sculpts and range material
- Relation to Blaster Magazine and Arsenal ecosystem
Cons
- No precise publication year or designer data in transcript
Thematic elements
- Array
- Sci-Fi / military
- n/a
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none
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Adepticon is the largest miniatures wargaming convention in the country, possibly the world.
- It's four days of tournaments and classes and seminars and demos and vendors and just hanging around with friends and seeing all kinds of cool stuff.
- Gaslands is one of them. Hobgoblin is another one.
- This is the deal: people are always like, 'Man, but I don't have money for artwork.' But you can make really cool looking stuff just with photography.
- It's a really nice layout and a lot of interesting books and processes behind the scenes.
- I didn't take any classes. I didn't go into any games, but we did a live podcast on Saturday night.
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Before You Play Playthrough
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's loosely based around Portuguese parties
- a board gaming version of Tetris
- the yellow circle is always touching
- we've played it at two, three and four
- it's a puzzle game so it's replayable
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