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2025
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Description
On a peaceful beach, meet hermit crabs and octopuses building homes out of discarded cups and bottles. At just the right moment, claim the most luxurious stack of cups for your new home — or mix a bottle into cup stack to sabotage another hermit crab!
Players work together to build piles of Cup cards, but since victory points are scored from Cup cards, competition is fierce as everyone aims to claim the best piles using their Crab or Octopus cards. Bottle cards introduce an exciting twist, as only Octopus cards can follow them.
Each player begins the game with 14 random Cup cards, 3 Crab cards, 2 Octopus cards, and 2 Bottle cards. At the start of each round, players select three cards to play. Throughout 7 rounds, you must carefully plan your card choices.
—description from the publisher
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Jamie, Tabletoptiktok Review at 0:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Quick playing
- Easy to teach
- A lot of fun to play
- Cute crab cards
Cons
- Limited to three cards per round
- Must play all chosen cards
- Risk of losing desired stacks to other players' cards (bottles, octopuses)
Thematic elements
- Crabs and cups
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players select three cards from their hand to play each round.
- Hand Management — Players must play all three cards chosen for the round, leading to decisions about when to use valuable cards.
- Set Collection — Players aim to collect stacks of cups with crabs or octopuses to score points.
- Stacking — Cards are played onto central piles or 'stacks', which can be taken by players under certain conditions.
- Take That — Bottle cards block stacks, and octopus cards take stacks, directly affecting other players' opportunities.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Aren't they so cute?
- So, this is a quick playing card game
- So, you're trying to outmaneuver your opponents. But, it plays so quickly, it's really fun.
- This is one of those games you throw it in your bag, you have it with you all the time, and it is really easy to teach and a lot of fun to play.
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 6:15 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- enjoy this one
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none
Thematic elements
- grabbing crabs
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Push Your Luck — push your luck style game
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vassal and welcome to look back. This is series where I take a look at videos that I've done a year ago, five 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.
- There are so many versions of this Knizia game. Friday the 13th, Baker's Dozen, which I think is hilarious. A game about poison and also donuts.
- I never was never a big fan of Blue Moon the card game, but Blue Moon City where you're all working buildings to build them, dropping things off, moving dragons around, I thought worked very well.
- This is a game that I think Bezier Games thought would be like the next big thing after Dominion where you're using dice and manipulating dice with cards, but it just wasn't interesting enough.
- This is one of the best themings of a game ever. Basically, the game is a game that a kid made while he and his family are on the road running from zombies.
- I can't believe this game is 5 years old now. So it's this was the second crew and I didn't realize that it's been that long since the crew has come out.
- Hey everybody, thanks for watching this video. If you liked this review or whatever you just watched, wasn't it amazing? Uh check out our channel, Dice Tower.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Unboxing at 18:30 sentiment: positive
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positive
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bluffing — Yes. But they're trying to get points. Yes, there's some bluffing
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Quotes (from this video)
- nobody, including us, need this many games.
- This is Divan. Mhm. I don't know anything about this game. I bought it because it looks beautiful.
- This could have easily been a Reiner Knizia game I feel like.
- And I love a reason to play Lost Ruins of Arnak Lost Ruins of Arnak because I think it's a great game.
- We have to empty our unplayed game shelf from everything that's not 2025 releases and then we'll put it in there and the rest go on the floor until we manage to play them.
- And it's based on the problem called what is called again it's based on the seven bridges of somewhere.
- I feel kind of like bad about bringing a hundred games back home.
- I I usually they go in, they go out. And that's also the thing like if I haven't played a game in a month, I will not remember the rules most of the time.
- The longest line I saw was for coffee. In the morning before the whole office.
- What's more important for you for the channel? Playing the popular ones or the less known niche ones?
- My favorite animal beside the monkey which is my favorite animal. The capybara.
- We are basically very lucky because we share a lot of hobbies.
- The building thing Ah, it was too much building. I didn't like that too much.
- It's been super fun. It's so many people. It's been so long since we did a live.
- Thank you so much for watching. Like it. We wouldn't have done this if it wasn't for you.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Top 3 List at 3:23
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love Klask.
- it's all about luck in Flip Seven.
- It's a two-player game.
- Goa and it's my number three.
- We got to play Goa. It's not on my list, but no, it is because it's really fun.
- Fields of Arle is a game we played many years ago.
- You're trying to get the peat away.
- My number one is Keyflower.
- Probably it is one of my favorite cooperative games.
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