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Colorful

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2019
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Description

Colorful is a game about categorizing and matching colors as a group. Each round a player will come up with a specific example within a broad topic, for the group to secretly match with a color card from their hand. After 5 rounds, cards are checked to see if the group or an individual wins!

—description from the publisher

Description

Colorful is a game about categorizing and matching colors as a group. Each round a player will come up with a specific example within a broad topic, for the group to secretly match with a color card from their hand. After 5 rounds, cards are checked to see if the group or an individual wins!

—description from the publisher

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Video 7cEWZa9yTL0 Board Game Sanctuary Analysis at 19:37 sentiment: neutral
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Neutral
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Two-Player Game — Rated as a two-player game.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • I had a really interesting thought I thought what if I rated my entire board game collection by sight
  • 4 out of four would be like a really fantastic game that really does well in what it sets out to do
  • Empires of the Void still yet to dive into that probably a 2 out of four for me at this point
  • um not much of a fan of agricola unfortunately
  • forcing myself to do that was probably therapeutic in itself
  • it kind of made me my mind think okay really love these are my top t one games and these games are kind of like on the CP for
  • I do all of this uh on the lowest of budgets
  • it's just purely out of passion that I do this and it brings me so much enjoyment
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Video 4fUskrJWUkc Heavy Cardboard Top List at 41:02 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
  • Super simple
  • Wide appeal
  • Great for non-gamers
  • Social experiment
  • Portable
Cons
  • Stark white cover (subjective)
  • Font doesn't fit (subjective)
Thematic elements
  • Matching colors to associated words
Comparison games
  • Tokyo Market
  • Tsuro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Set Collection — Players match colors from their hand to associated words.
  • word association — One person picks a word, and everyone associates a color with that word.
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  • Twilight Imperium is an epic game. It's a very long game. It's a grand strategy game. It has area control, negotiation, and is a 4X game.
  • Scythe is beautiful. It's strategic. It's an engine-building game with area control. It has a unique theme.
  • Brass: Birmingham is an economic game. It's strategic and deep. It has network building and resource management.
  • Ark Nova is a complex game. It's strategic and engaging. It has action selection and set collection.
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