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Game Info
Year
2023
Players
3-4
Age
11+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
Come one, come all to Big Top! Hire the wildest and most wonderful acts to attract crowds of delighted spectators.
In this fast-paced auction game you’ll bid on show-stopping acts to draw crowds to your circus, but beware - each winning bid will make your competition that much richer.
But that’s not all! Even the attractions you’ve already won will affect bids in future auctions. Each attraction card lists a number - bid that amount in any auction to place a coin on that card and gain the points! That means you don't need to win an auction - or even WANT to win it - to benefit from bidding!
In this competitive world of circuses, you’ll have to keep a close eye not just on your winnings, but on all of your opponents' bids.
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Shelfside Interview at 1:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fast, social card game
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Array
- Casual card game in social setting
- anecdotal
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Quotes (from this video)
- I started with the game of life
- we played Stratego with a family friend
- I started playing a lot of Dominion
- we branched into very very a very different game Eclipse
- over a hundred games of our good old faithful resistance
- Battlestar Galactica in Eclipse
- Catan is an eclipse not for me
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Video ILInMvUJ340
Meeple University Top 10 List at 1:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Intriguing and interesting
- Adds layers of complexity
- Clever economic flow
Cons
- Not intuitive
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — There's a deck of cards and you're trying to get the cards that are worth the most points by simply bidding on them.
- economic — There's a strange little uh semi-closed economy so money when you're auctioning is passed from player to player except if the person who starts the bidding wins it then it goes to the bank.
- Set Collection — once you've got a card you then have to trigger it for scoring and there'll be a bunch of numbers on that card and you cover them up temporarily with your own money when you make a bid in that amount doesn't matter whether the bid wins or loses.
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Quotes (from this video)
- and now we're here to show you our top games of April new to us that we play of course in April 2023
- so these are again these could be older games that we first came across in April were reprinted in April they could be new prototypes that have come to us that we played in April anything April Associated for us could also be a real copy could also be the game that has been commissioned to us to do either way this is all just our opinions so purely our opinions
- it's so good it's so quick it's so compact it's great for travel you should play it
- look it up it's called we play board games Melbourne at meetup.com if you are in Melbourne or if you are visiting Melbourne come and join us
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1:27:05 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Two all-beef patties
- Special sauce
- Debuted in Pennsylvania
- Previously called The Aristocrat
- Went nationwide in 1968
- Nickname of a controversial baseball player
- Found in America
Cons
- Some people don't like the Big Mac
- The Impossible Whopper is considered very good by some
Thematic elements
- fast food item
Comparison games
- Impossible Whopper
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Quotes (from this video)
- the best game we played of the day was Nana
- it's a stupid memory game
- 100 bucks I will not be buying that
- it was fine I I enjoyed it I had a good time
- it's really good it's very good
- Frost Haven's already on the top 100
- I miss the old art
- we offer a championship midgard for 40 bucks
- it's too random it does you can't mitigate it at all and it's just rough
- the dice mechanism is cool
- there's a million copies of space games sitting around
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Meeple University Discussion at 0:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really interesting twists on auction mechanics.
- The different twists make it really interesting.
- Really fun game.
Cons
- Only plays 3 or 4 players.
Thematic elements
- Circus
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — Players bid on cards using car coins. The winner pays the auctioneer, or the bank if the auctioneer wins.
- Push Your Luck — Bidding a number printed on your card, regardless of winning, forces you to place a coin on that number, potentially influencing future bids and money flow.
- Set Collection — Players collect cards to cover with coins. Once covered, the card is flipped into a scoring pile.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- hello everyone I'm Stella and this is Tara from Maple University today we are back with five games in 30 minutes or under 30 minutes we'll try our best
- The premise is that you only score points for the cards that you complete the cards that you get once you get them all covered with coins you get your coins back and then you flip it down into a scoring pile
- It becomes a game of extreme balance because there's never a benefit in winning something by a lot you want to win everything by the absolute minimum amount
- This is a little icebreaker game
- I really like the way the game progresses as well because all of these tracks you move up them more quickly with smaller sets to at the start of the game and you need larger sets at the end of the game so it even has this big shift where in the first round it's probably most effective to like play a bunch of one and two card sets just to bank these points that you'll score at the end of every round and then as you go more on you get more specialized and it's harder to to get these big sets and the points aren't necessarily worth as much
- It's such a simple twist but it works so effectively
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Getting Games Discussion at 12:47 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
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none
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none
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none
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I have a monstrous shifting shelf
- nine games leaving the collection
- there are 19 new games that arrived this month
- I backed it on Kickstarter and apparently I backed it for a level that also got me Deep Dive
- Founders is a Thailand game
- bone race essentially
- this is going to be four videos coming out that week
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Getting Games Discussion
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none
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none
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's just a really exciting experience to pitch these games
- Jessica did all of the graphic design
- I believe in these games
- I don't think I'm ever going to make money off of these maybe I will who knows
- Spiel felt like Disneyland for five days
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Video kIsOmI6J7vg
Getting Games Discussion
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none
Cons
none
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none
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Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's just a really exciting experience to pitch these games
- Jessica did all of the graphic design
- I believe in these games
- I don't think I'm ever going to make money off of these maybe I will who knows
- Spiel felt like Disneyland for five days
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Chairman of the Board Discussion at 11:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique mechanisms continue to impress
- Incentivizes strategic bidding
- Cool core idea
- Good example of the genre
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- High Society
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — Players bid on cards which then populate their score cards.
- contract fulfillment — Bidding higher can incentivize completing existing collected cards.
- Set Collection — Collecting cards to score points.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this is where I talk about all of the games that I have been playing over the last couple of weeks
- will it maintain its um top spot this year you'll have to stay tuned to my top 100
- it was quite nice to see that she enjoyed it um as much as we did despite her not really dipping her toe into Euro games yet
- I did have a a bit of a game from hell where nothing really seemed to be going my way
- it's one of the best games ever made in my opinion
- it's going to be a bit of a sleeper hit already I think there's going to be a hidden audience for this one
- it came get very close game actually
- it's becoming one of those games that I would never really turn down
- it's a lot of fun and um you know always guaranteed a good time
- it kind of reminds me of that Nish Shaw of games like high society and so on but this is a good example of the genre
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Actualol Analysis at 3:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging auctions
- Strategic bidding encourages participation
- Player interaction through blocking bids
- High stakes with star attractions
Cons
- Can be stressful
- Players can make rivals richer by overpaying
Thematic elements
- recruiting performers for a circus show
- a circus
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- auction/bidding — Players bid on performers, and the auctioneer gets the payout.
- Hand Management — Managing money to bid and save for potential star attractions.
- Set Collection — Completing cards by filling number slots with bids from other auctions.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- BarbeCubes should be clocking in a record face value of 96.
- The bodies are piling up at the Paris Opera House, and since no one heard the screams over the sound of the screams, it's your job to get to the derriere of it.
- Onitama is chess for the modern world because it's leaner, faster, and doesn't require you to do homework to get on with it.
- For me, it's the only entry-level area control game I'd recommend.
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Video DxHuai-94pY
Getting Games Discussion at 12:39 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- unique auction mechanism that folds into future decisions
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- bidding and timing with a twist
- circus-themed auction game
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- auction with future-driven points — win an auction card, but points unlock only after filling spots later, using bid tokens
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm actually going to split this into two parts today.
- I'm going through the board game geek Pages for each one of them in alphabetical order.
- I think it's time to start talking about these games.
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Video i7UVXtHkVxY
Chairman of the Board Discussion at 12:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- cool twist on a familiar auction genre
- compact and engaging
Cons
- time may feel tight if not managed well
Thematic elements
- auction and card population
- small-box auction with a circus theme
- light, quirky
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — bidding values populate cards you've acquired
- Auction / Bidding — bidding values populate cards you've acquired
- Set Collection — scoring happens after you populate bids onto cards
- set-collection/score when populated — scoring happens after you populate bids onto cards
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's really tight this Bard is and the opportunity cost of doing one thing
- there are so many different ways you can score in this game
- it's punchy
- the game end really does rush up on you
- polished, refined, gorgeous to look at
- you can just take the pieces off the board and go again
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