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Year
2018
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Description
In Boomerang, the "come-back-again" card game, players travel round the great south land, trying to see and do as much as possible — but will the cards you want to see come back to you?
Boomerang could be described as a card-drafting game (like 7 Wonders or Sushi Go!) mixed with a roll-and-write game (like Yahtzee or Qwixx).
Each turn, players select one card from their hand to play, then pass the rest of their cards to the next player. Will you take what you really want, or a different card so as to deprive another player of something cool?
At the end of each round, players mark different things off on their score sheets, corresponding to what they earned from the cards they selected. Players earn points for seeing sights, collecting Australiana, seeing animals, and so on. After five rounds, the player with the most points wins.
Boomerang (Grail Games) Family
(3 games)
Part of the Boomerang (Grail Games) family — see Boomerang: Australia for the combined view.
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Board Game Dad Top List at 10:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique scoring mechanism.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Visiting locations in Australia
- Australia
Comparison games
- Sushi Go!
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — A card drafting game where players are passing the cards to each other.
- Set Collection — You're getting points for the areas of Australia that you visit and of course you visit those areas by having the cards for it.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So today i'm going to share with you the best viewer recommended family board games and a few of my thoughts as i piece together my top 10 for 2022.
- The first category is games that just aren't worth mentioning.
- The next category are games that i think are worth taking a look at but not necessarily games that i've bought yet.
- And then finally there's the category of games that as soon as i looked at them i knew for sure that i was going to buy them.
- The game is juicy fruits which is a very colorful and very fun looking game.
- It's basically bs you know where you're playing a card and you're saying I'm playing three queens and someone says you know that's bs and you flip it over and it's three queens and they were wrong.
- It plays a lot like the trading card game android netrunner.
- It kind of reminds me a little of zombie kids although you're not attacking any zombies.
- It kind of has a retro 80s video game feel to it.
- It seems to be based out of england i guess but the game is called astronauts.
- Boomerang is a lot like sushi go a card drafting game where players are passing the cards to each other.
- One key fixes that flaw.
- The game looks like it's independently published.
- It's really really fun objective for a dice rolling game.
- Santorini is an abstract strategic game that would be way too hard for my young kids to be able to compete with the older kids or adults in the family so I can't play Santorini with my children but this game I can play.
- Explorers is a game where all players are playing at the same time.
- Which of the ones that i've mentioned are your favorite family board game or i'll change the question is there something new that's recently come out that i don't know about yet?
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kovray Top 10 List at 29:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I thoroughly enjoyed this game
- the combinations and everything in this game is just magical
- the scores are really high
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Tabletop Tokki Top 10 List at 10:38 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- thematic and quick drafting
- regional scoring touches
Cons
- publisher/availability uncertain
Thematic elements
- drafting memories and regional scoring
- Australia travel memories
- flavorful, thematic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — drafts memories and locations for scoring
- set collection / regional scoring — score points by visiting diverse regions and collecting gifts
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Quotes (from this video)
- Warp's Edge is a solo bag building adventure where you are going to be fighting off alien invasions of ships and destroying a unique mothership during the course of each play
- this is a super tight game over the course of just a few short rounds you are going to be playing cards and going back and adding cards in between so you can never reorder the past events
- it's a really unique mix of set collection tiny economic social deduction dexterity
- food chain island ... has been released as the first game in button shy's simply solo line
- tiny epic galaxies is my all-time favorites
- this game really blends dexterity and patterning with humor
- boomerang was originally released as just boomerang
- the great dinosaur rush ... captures so much joy and so much energy and excitement
- this is one of my all-time favorite designers scott alms
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Tabletop Tokki Top 10 List at 8:27 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Feel-good, quick game with strong visual appeal
- Supports multiple regional variants (Australia, Europe, USA) and plays online on BGA
Cons
- Theme may be nostalgic for some players but less depth for heavier gamers
Thematic elements
- familial, nostalgic travel adventures
- World-spanning travel and boomerang-based scoring
- feel-good, quick-to-play
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- flip-and-fill / hand drafting — Draft a hand of cards across four rounds to travel to locations and accumulate points from activities, gifts, and sightseeing.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- BGA is my favorite online gaming platform and it's one that I use on a weekly basis if not multiple times a week to play with friends online
- this video is not in any way shape or form sponsored by BGA
- there you have it those are my top 10 filler games from board game arena
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The Dice Tower Top List at 4:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Works really well
- Enjoyable
Cons
- Multiple versions not needed
Thematic elements
- Australia (original)
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area connection — Cards are used to connect areas on the board.
- Card Drafting — The core mechanism involves drafting cards from a pool.
- draft and write — Players draft cards and then use them to cross off letters, connect areas, or get sets on their board.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of symbols or pictures.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- We call a roll and write game a game like yatsi which by the way wasn't in the running for my list where you roll dice and then you use the results of that roll to write something on your sheet.
- So there is really no good term for it but either way it is a fun genre and there are hundreds of games in this category.
- Although these games still come out, they're easy to produce for many companies. All you need to do is make a sheet of paper and put some dice out.
- It's the closest simulation of pinball that we're going to get in a board game.
- This isn't just one game. It's multiple games.
- This is such a huge game. It's by far one of the biggest ones out there.
- It's one of the most thematic rolling rights I've ever played or flipping rights because you're flipping a deck of cards.
- When I was making my list, it was this was such an easy thing. I wrote Flip Town as number one, then 10 as number two. Then I thought about the rest of the list because these those two were just so obvious to me on how much I enjoyed them.
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Foster the Meeple Top List at 20:56 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Humor and nostalgia in winter storytelling
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Humor and silliness in a wintery setting
- Winter-themed humor in a retro platformer context
- nostalgic, light-hearted
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Platforming action (video game reference) — Fictional reference to a retro platform game; not a board game
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- winter is coming okay winter is oh shoot
- there's a game called winter this one's perfect good God
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