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2015
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Description
Your old favorite book is now your new favorite game! In Bring Your Own Book, players take turns drawing prompts from the deck, then race to find the best phrase in their own book that satisfies the prompt. What's the tastiest “name for a candy bar” in that history textbook you're reading for school? How quickly can you find “lyrics from a country western song” in your dog-training guide? What kind of “advice for graduating seniors” will appear in your anthology of limericks?
In more detail, everyone has their own book and sits in a circle. The cards are placed face down, and the starting player has a one-minute timer. The starting player takes the top card off the deck, picks a prompt, and reads it aloud. Everyone except the Picker searches their book for text to match the prompt, sequential text of any length: a single word, half of a sentence, a whole sentence, multiple sentences, etc.
The first Seeker to find matching text announces "I've got it" and starts the timer. When the timer runs out (or every Seeker announces "I've got it"), each Seeker reads what they've found. Seekers who didn't find text in time open to a random page and read a random sentence from it. The Picker chooses their favorite submission and awards the card to that Reader. After each round, the person to the left of the last Picker starts the next round. Once any player holds three cards, everyone passes their book to the player on their left. This happens any time a player reaches three cards during the game. Thus, it can happen as many times as there are players.
The game proceeds until one player has collected the required number of cards and wins: with 5-7 players the first to 4 cards win; with 3-4 players the first to 5 cards win.
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 3:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- I like that concept, especially for educational purposes.
- Sounds fun.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- using your own book to find things
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vassal.
- This is look back, a series where I go through uh games that I reviewed last year during this time frame and 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 20 years ago.
- And I tell you what I think about the games now, if I think about them at all.
- Twinkle Twinkle from All Play Games.
- Men Nefer. This is from Firman Million who did Petoku and the very modern Covenant.
- Infiltrators. This is a deduction style game, and you are working together trying to figure out these infiltrators at the playing the cards at the right time.
- And those are the games that I reviewed 1, 5, 10, and 20 years ago.
- Thanks so much for watching.
- Hey. Thanks for watching another video here on the Dice Tower.
- If you really like what we're doing here at the Dice Tower, then there are different ways to support the Dice Tower.
- Until next time though, I'm Tom Vasel, and I hope you enjoyed this video.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 17:55 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique and interesting party game concept
- Accessible with readily available materials
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Using personal books to answer prompts.
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cards Against Humanity Style — A topic flips out, and players find answers in their books.
- Voting — The player whose turn it is votes for the best answer.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Pap, you still haven't received your Tekkaido that you backed at a pretty high amount because you got your own character in the game.
- It's funny. We we talked about that at some point. Just like the humor, like the humor of doing something like a pep talks where I would talk about, you know, like some advice for particular games and it's something I like that. I like that. I love that idea of a pep talk.
- Rebel Mage here uh, left a message just said, "Pep, just want to say you're a great co-host for watching play. Keep up the good work."
- For me, it's probably going to be Star Realms. Star Realms is very high on here as well for me. Um, but I kind of want to skip that just because of how repeatable Star Realms is anyway. And I'm going to go to Sheriff of Nottingham.
- Uh, this is self- serving, but I would dress up as a Mounty and be my character from the Dead of Winter promo that's in the fundraiser.
- I'd want to find something I already look like and kind of like I wouldn't just go as my favorite character. I'd go as a character that I think I that I could that I could best look even kind of naturally almost, right?
- Yes, we talk about it somewhat frequently actually. Like, oh, we should probably cover some of the old older classics. Yeah, cuz there are still people today who pick up those games and and want to uh learn how to play them, right?
- Every game. But the one that always comes to mind for me is uh Pathfinder and any game that's kind of trying to do what the Pathfinder adventure card game is doing because in that game whenever you level up and complete missions, you get like draw a random item out of the box or do this or do that.
- Like Seall has something similar to that. They have an emnity thing. If you attack someone then they remember that other players remember that in in the game's mechanics and then that comes back to haunt you later or whatever.
- The whole idea of under Mountain is like it's constantly shifting and like it's the surroundings are changing. So every time you go down, things will be a little different anyway. So it' be really cool to make like a legacy style dungeon exploring thing around the end of that naturally.
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Foster the Meeple Discussion at 8:58 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Silly
- Hit for families of readers
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Books and words
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Word Game — Using flipping through random pages and picking a word in order to like play this game.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Rudolph. We haven't played it yet, but it is Rudolph themed, so it's holiday themed, so I think it'd be great. We're definitely going to be pulling it out this Christmas.
- when you open it up and you look at it, it's very much so. Like there's there's Holly and like mistletoe and cranberry and all of the m the mice are dressed with their little cute scarves.
- It's a cooperative game. you're all working together to get Frodies to Mordor.
- And I just think that this there's something. It's not Christmas themed. It's not holiday themed, but there's something like about this game that's just very magical.
- It's cozy, it's quick, it's simple, it's festive.
- Santa versus Krampus. That's very holiday theme.
- which is the Christmas themed one. And this is like has a 3D tree and you're booping ornaments off of it.
- So, I would do like just a big batch of chili with different toppings.
- And when you order in takeout, especially like I don't know about everywhere, but here like for our Chinese food, it's always so much food. You can feed an army with what you're ordering.
- I personally prefer the Jim Carrey one or the old like the original Grinch. Those are the best ones.
- Elf is I don't know if you guys knew this, but Elf is literally my favorite movie of all time. not just Christmas movie. It is my favorite movie of all time.
- This is a perfect movie. T the season to be jolly and joyous.
- I think that could be really fun. You could have a table for like ornament decorating or cookie decorating. I think it would be really fun to do like build your own gingerbread houses or mele gingerbread decorating.
- I almost said Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm sure there's a book about that, too. But I think that could also be really fun.
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Actualol Top List at 6:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- versatile, supports various books
- family-friendly and accessible
Cons
- tone depends on chosen book
Thematic elements
- reading & improvisation
- family-friendly party game
- creative, book-leaning
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- book-tracking — inside the book there is a spot to track books played
- judge reads a card; players locate their answer in their own book — answers must be found within chosen book; text can be 1 word, sentence, or few sentences
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's brilliant it puts you in a corner which makes your attempts to get out of that corner all the funnier
- this game is a classic family party game great for dinner parties and Christmas
- Cards Against Humanity's greatest strength is its inclusive humor
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