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Year
2016
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Description
Booze Barons is a quick, team-based hidden identity and deduction game set during U.S. Prohibition where you are bootlegging a particular type of booze and secretly delivering it to speakeasies all over the city. Each time you make a delivery, you get a coin, but also reveal information about the type of booze you are bootlegging. Expose bootleggers of opposing mobs and help those who are in your mob since the mob with the most coins at the end wins!
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Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Review at 0:12 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Kudos to gender and racial equality in the game.
- Nice big sturdy components.
Cons
- Too easy to guess other people's identity.
- Tactics and strategy are out the window once players get exposed.
- Lack of risk in the game.
- Game felt disconnected from the theme.
- Poorly implemented theme through lack of poses.
- Felt like a simple game of guess who.
- Artwork's muted colors made it look like a printing error.
- Not fun enough for replay value.
- Loses its novelty fairly quickly.
- Too easy to deduce player movement.
Thematic elements
- Three mob families fighting for territory control, making deliveries and avoiding discovery.
- the Roaring 20s
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Collecting Delivery Cards — Players collect delivery cards which score points at the end of the game.
- Deduction — Players act as bootleggers and deduce information about other players to gain an advantage.
- Hidden identities — Players have hidden identities representing different mob families.
- movement cards — Players use movement cards to determine their location each round.
- Tailing/Exposing Players — Players can tail other players to steal or expose their cards, with consequences for incorrect guesses.
- Triggering Location Events — Players can trigger location-specific events.
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- Unfortunately it was too easy to guess other people's identity.
- That's what the game was missing, some risk. Without it, it simply became a race, which to me felt like it was really disconnected from the theme.
- Boo Baron gets a three out of 10.
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Rules Teach at 6:43 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Amass the most ill-gotten gains
- Deliver spirits to speakeasies
- Rat out competitors
- Gain clues to rat out competition
Cons
- Dodging Johnny Law
Thematic elements
- Bootlegging during Prohibition
- The 1920s in the United States
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bluffing — Players make deliveries that give clues about their identity, implying a bluff or misdirection.
- Deduction — Players use the delivery cards collected by others to deduce their secret booze type.
- Hidden Role/Identity — Each player has a secret booze type they are bootlegging, and other players try to deduce and expose it.
- Pick-Up and Deliver — Players deliver spirits to speakeasies by collecting delivery cards that match their secret booze type.
- Set Collection — Players collect delivery cards that match their secret booze type to score points.
- Simultaneous action selection — Players simultaneously select movement cards to determine where their bootlegger pawn moves each round.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Pair of Dice Paradise makes no guarantee expressed or implied on the likelihood of you becoming a Hollywood Legend
- Seriously why why are you looking at me time's running out look look at the cars look not where I'm pointing that's never mind we're out of time
- Any excuse that you make is going to be a dirty filthy lie which ironically is a useful trait for a booze Baron
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 1:03 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Didn't reach the levels of Good Cop, Bad Cop
- Just not as good
Thematic elements
- Booze
Comparison games
- Good Cop, Bad Cop
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Quotes (from this video)
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