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Beasty Bar

Game ID: GID0041937
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Year
2014
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Description

The animals are dressed up and ready to enter the "Beasty Bar" nightclub. Who will actually make it through the door?

Beasty Bar is a fun "take that" card game about party animals. The players play animal cards into a line, and each animal has a special power that can manipulate the order of the cards. Whenever five animals are present at the end of a turn, the two animals up front get to party while the one at the rear has to go home. Whoever manages to send more of her animals to the party than anyone else wins.

Description

The animals are dressed up and ready to enter the "Beasty Bar" nightclub. Who will actually make it through the door?

Beasty Bar is a fun "take that" card game about party animals. The players play animal cards into a line, and each animal has a special power that can manipulate the order of the cards. Whenever five animals are present at the end of a turn, the two animals up front get to party while the one at the rear has to go home. Whoever manages to send more of her animals to the party than anyone else wins.

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Video S4LygqchlFs Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Analysis at 5:01
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Pros
  • Lighter and quicker recommendation
  • Includes mischievous monkeys, skunks, and crocodiles
Cons
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Thematic elements
  • Players create a shared lineup of animals
Comparison games
  • Wingspan
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Row Building — players create a shared lineup of animals. And as animals are added to this row, their special effects mix up who is standing where in the queue.
  • Special Powers — activating your row of special bird powers in Wingspan? Well, in Beasty Bar, players create a shared lineup of animals. And as animals are added to this row, their special effects mix up who is standing where in the queue.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Toy Battle turns two twin teams of tyrannically technical toys against one another as they take turns either drafting more troops or deploying them to earn point-scoring medals and take control of their opponent's headquarters.
  • Don't let the art and the name of this game fool you. Toy Battle is a war game at heart.
  • Blitzkrieg World War II, was originally pitched as the perfect war game for non-wargamers, which is a bold claim, but one that the game delivers on.
  • Wingspan deservedly receives a lot of love from players.
  • Still, it's full of clever card play, devious resource management, and, of course, powerful point-scoring engine-building mechanisms.
  • If asymmetrical, historical, and ever so slightly quirky war games call to you, well, then a series of games that you might want to call upon is the Coin series.
  • even as complex game systems go, Pendragon leans on the complex side of even that.
  • It's like we're tying everything together like a big tabletop turducken.
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Video UF9Xf3qeCUc Chairman of the Board Top List at 9:57 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
  • creative animal-themed cards
  • unique queue concept
Cons
  • rules overhead high; many exceptions to remember
  • chaotic interactions detract from simplicity
Thematic elements
  • queue dynamics and ability-driven interactions
  • nightclub queue filled with animal characters
  • light, chaotic but playful
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • card abilities — cards with animal characters grant unique effects and interactions
  • Multi-Use Cards — cards with animal characters grant unique effects and interactions
  • queue management — players build and manipulate a queue to maximize end-game points
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Quotes (from this video)
  • This is probably one of my favorite Uwe Rosenberg games I've played to date.
  • it's a weird one because it's kind of like a full-size game but didn't quite feel like it
  • the rules overhead was quite high in terms of remembering what they do
  • usually trying to build these routes and establish these with blocks and then get the cards
  • it's a pretty much a paint by numbers deck builder game
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