Game Info
Year
2017
Players
1-6
Age
8+
Playtime
10 min
Collection
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Description
A fast roll-and-write by Reiner Knizia where players place symbols on a 5x5 grid to score matching groups in rows and columns
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 2:09:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive (with caveat)
Pros
- Enjoyable when played correctly
- Rules clarity significantly improves experience
Cons
- Experience can be poor if rules are missed
- Can feel like it's 'dragging home'
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Rolling Right
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — Implied by the name 'Criss Cross' and the discussion of playing it wrong and then correcting the rules, suggesting spatial or pattern elements.
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Quotes (from this video)
- one of the actions that I love most from dreamscape with the insight and but now he's added a dice and everybody knows how much I love my dice
- my strategy didn't pay
- The more I played, the more I liked it
- Okay okay okay okay okay now I kind of see the appeal of it
- The rules that I didn't catch and you and Joel played again because I there are some rules I hadn't caught the price time through and it definitely made a big difference to our experience
- He said you don't know how much that means to a person when they and you don't know what's going on but I just wanted to thank you for just brightening up a couple minutes of my day every couple of weeks going through a rough time
- You just never know how you affect people
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 20:53 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- simple to learn
- portable, easy to pack for travel
- advanced rules provide a challenge
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Roll and Write — Players roll two dice and mark symbols on a sheet to score points.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I've never heard a song called October trees.
- Unless there's free stuff to it but I'd rather dress like a cow to get free chick-fil-a or go in a Krispy Kreme and get a free donut then it's long john silver's to get fish.
- There should be no time limit on dress like a cow day Tony.
- Fool I'm dressed like a cow right now could you just throw a brother a free sandwich or something and he didn't did he he did not.
- Why do you guys build power lines and canals?
- You are now mr. Instagram that's it it's done it's over.
- Good god there's people everywhere it's oh it's it was on real Wow lots of people dude lots about but the tube is amazing that was fun.
- And their main exports are sheep and coos all highland coos coos what Koot howls okay okay yeah.
- One thing I noticed and I know I didn't get all of them but I did notice that every gaming store I went into there was no place to play.
- I was watching one and they were like what what component of this game I'm like seven wonders people.
- Me I know you don't have a switch but let me tell you for a little portable handheld gaming system these games are gonna be amazing on that system so let me understand this you're now making me want to go buy a switch I had
- now and some one of the hottest games it's number one at BoardGameGeek and that is mezzo from colossal games so if you haven't checked it out Marty and I got to play to Gen Con and it was fun it was good it was like it was like blood rage mixed in with some other stuff it has that kind of feel to it
- I'm sure it's already funded go check it out Tony and I'd really liked it and Tony I'll be getting this game yes I agree it's it's one of those games that I'm excited for
- Wilke Forge be number one and two again we'll find out I was gonna ask you what was number one so key Forge and key for starter right yep he forged starter set was number one he forged X we're number two
- so be sure to head over to miniature market calm and get your pre-orders in for key forge and save your money and not spend it on eBay where they're going for $75 just wait people
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Meeple University Top 10 List at 6:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Small game, very small footprint
- Easy to pack up and set up
- Flexible number of players
- Easy to play when needing to leave quickly
Cons
- Laminating may be needed for reusability to avoid bringing pads
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — Players line up symbols in rows or columns to score points.
- Roll and Write — Players roll dice and use the results to mark off spaces on a personal sheet.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- so when we're traveling with our cars around Australia we do have the luxury of bringing huge Ikea bags full of board games and no problem with that but what happens when we're limited to the things we can bring with us such as when we have to bring clothes and the airline tells us we can only have a single like the airline limit us to that it's very mean of them
- I think the key things that are important when you're taking a a game traveling yeah portability is an obvious one for the reasons we just said y um and generally it's pretty rare that we have much table space a lot of games tend to be played on the bed y um or on a plane or on a plane so not a lot of space not very comfortable
- so Ob actually include a few bits and pieces um and again you know this is if you got a tactile person and you like to play and touch rather than otherwise you would just play something on your phone
- so here are the top 10 games in no particular order
- I feel that would be lost for so yeah so that's tiny epic Galaxy
- well this is um why we uh use or we we include mint Works um there's another one as well mint deliveries uh which is also quite well played but we used to this one this is the first one that came out yep and you like this game as well uh yes it's quick and simple and yeah it fits that fits that little um light holiday Niche very well that's Min Works
- So that is um but it's not that very much the cards is
- Play with the lowest score wins over the course of the game so it's very replayable the rules are very easy the strategy can get it's not the Super deepest strategy but it's got a nice level of depth to it for a quick two-player game.
- This is actually one of taran's favorite game it's one of my favorite two player games.
- It is one of the most popular two-player games out there.
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