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1997
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Description
This game adds a very interesting twist to the standard trick-taking genre. There are five suits and players must follow suit, if they can. However, the winner of the trick is the highest card played, regardless of suit. The winner gets all the cards from the trick, minus the card he won it with. That card is given to the player that played the lowest card. After all tricks have been played, the scoring begins. Players score the face-value of the cards in the suits that they only collected one or two of, and one point per card for suits with more than two. The player with the most points after a number of hands wins the game.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 8:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- one of the best trick-taking card games ever made
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Trick-Taking — wonderful trick taking card game
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Settlers of Catan has probably brought more people into this hobby than anything else and for that I'm truly truly thankful I really am.
- Playing a solo game helps clear my mind... I find it quite a good form of meditation, a good way to get into that very important state of flow in my brain.
- The more intense it gets, often the more I can relax whilst I'm doing it.
- Hunting down gems like this, I know a gems and have to convince other people to play.
- It's the thrill of the hunt. It's the hunter and just like the hunter-gatherer in me going out and finding the rare exotic board, bringing it back, plucking its feathers, it's great.
- If you've got any board game adjacent hobbies, what do you do on your time away from the board? Let me know down below.
- There's enough people on this planet for more than one person to be interested in everything.
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Watch It Played People Choice at 16:01 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
highly positive
Pros
- great trick-taking game
- clever card art
- makes you think differently
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Biblical story of David and Goliath
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Push Your Luck — at the start you're trying not to win things and then once you've won too many you want to shoot the moon
- Set Collection — the scoring is that you're collecting sets and if you have one two or three cards in a certain color that's great because you have the face value of the cards but the second you take a fourth card in that set all the cards become worth one
- Trick-Taking — a treat taking card game where you have to follow suit and at the end of a trick it's the highest card overall that wins but the lowest card wins the card that won the trick if that makes sense
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- inter-terrestrial toads
- And we'd both be satisfied in knowing that we'd said a sentence that had never been said before
- I was not aware of that yeah it's a fact
- Cosmic frog is a game of collection combat and theft on a planetary scale each player controls a two mile tall Immortal invulnerable frog-like creature I like frogs what about frogs I like frogs that exists solely to gather terrain from the shards of eighth spelled a-e-t-h that's my best guess
- it's a cosmic frog that's huge very large that's horrifying it's not horrifying I think it's adorable anything that is suddenly two miles tall becomes a monster
- frogs in space
- years of tutelage which doesn't look like a real word when you read it out loud totally years of farting around under the late archmage
- this translates into a dueling strategy card game where you have to and this is really cool bit you have to defeat your opponent by drafting new spells from the magical grimoire
- So it seems as though it would feel like playing a two-player dueling game but has the added deck building feeling built right into the game as well
- it's the precursor to broom service
- I am the mayor hahaha I give you a citation for a minor local law infraction
- this is one I've played not which is Brew but I got decimated at it because I always risk it and then I looked you truly live by go big or go home I do and I'm always going home
- Rebuilding Seattle is next though once that's destroyed you'll have to move on to D at all
- it may look dry but it's anything but
- I like to pretend I'm Frasier Crane when I play it
- The Great Fire of 1889 is burned down most of downtown Seattle
- it has a solo player deck which means I might actually get it played
- In Havana you acquire victory points by constructing buildings available as tiles displayed on the table to take a building you must pay its requirements some combination of money workers and building materials
- it's a short Resources management game and a clever roles selection
- charcuterie the board game which I found funny because as opposed to what like charcuterie the food
- I love a good charcuterie board
- this game not only looks delicious but really evokes the Betty Crocker cookbook illustrations from my childhood memories
- it's all an I cut you choose
- let's talk about the perfect way catch the perfect wave
- the catacombs of horror which is full of gloomy vaults that lie Under Paris that swallow the light secrets
- the puzzles in this one were extra puzzling
- I'd rather play a game about maybe being stuck in a catacomb and having to get my way out than experiencing it in real life
- too dehydrated to decipher the glyphs
- Applejack call my eye from the viewers picks because it's on board game arena right now and I really want to play it
- it's the height of human civilization today I don't know how to score my own scores in a bunch of games now because I've just gotten used to board game arena tracking it for me
- look simple and peaceful but it does hurt my brain
- Grand Austria Hotel let's Waltz
- I personally love modular expansions you can like swap in and out have as a team install anyone big time
- I'm excited to like discover the mystery of what these modules are
- there's nothing that I want to do more after eating a ton of stroodling cake than to dance
- it's great and that's David and Goliath
- the lowest card wins the card that won the trick if that makes sense
- once you've won too many you want to shoot the moon
- this game is such a treat to play
- the card art is so clever as the numbers Ascend the mouse grows from David to Goliath
- you don't have to wait on anyone to get you what you want if you want it get it for yourself for Christmas
- this month's most mentioned expansion was Grand Austria Hotel let's Waltz
- I'm guessing they're dancing related surely one of them has to be right right dance related music related maybe one has to do with filling in like the steps on those old like dance pattern shoe print things right surely
- there's nothing that I want to do more after eating a ton of stroodling cake than to dance these designers get me I could have danced all night
- the oldest game on this month's list is also the last game we're talking about and the only one I've actually played
- this is one I always evangelize because it's great
- it's a treat taking card game where you have to follow suit and at the end of a trick it's the highest card overall that wins but the lowest card wins the card that won the trick if that makes sense
- the scoring is that you're collecting sets and if you have one two or three cards in a certain color that's great because you have the face value of the cards but the second you take a fourth card in that set all the cards become worth one
- at the start you're trying not to win things and then once you've won too many you want to shoot the moon
- I love trick taking games that make you like think about what you're doing in a different way it's so good
- and that be a lesson to everyone you don't have to wait on anyone to get you what you want if you want it get it for yourself for Christmas
- what I want is to get it played
- that's a sampling of what our viewers have been playing this month
- to join the discussion for next episode find the link in this Video subscription to our patreon to find out how to pick the games featured in The People's Choice the people that's you pretty sure you're a people and to see the games on our own personal Radars continue on to this month's on the radar episode
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The Dice Tower Top List at 41:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Beautiful on the table
- Classic trick-taking
- Easy to play
- A lot of fun
- Clean gameplay
Cons
- Out of print for some reason.
Thematic elements
- David and Goliath
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — The number of cards changes based on player count.
- Set Collection — Players collect cards for scoring based on their value.
- Trick-Taking — Players must follow suit. The highest card wins the trick (Goliath), and the lowest card wins the trick (David).
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Did it in such an unbelievably clean way
- within a few missions, you are doing zany things that you that oftentimes feel like they're not possible.
- If people know trick taking then you can pull off some awesome awesome moves.
- This is why you're an idiot. Let me break it down for you in front of everybody.
- It's so smart. It's so smart.
- this one is a little more approachable.
- No, this is my favorite because it's so dead simple.
- This is your starting point here. I think this is the gold standard.
- It outdid the crew for me recently.
- This is now coming out as Trick to the Future.
- I hate that name so much.
- It's basically Hearts with Special Powers.
- Rebel Princess is fantastic.
- This is one that's also very easy to teach people.
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 6:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- ridiculous that this is ranked 3,624
- one of the best trick-taking games ever
- very, very popular
- a lot of fun things about this game
- It's fantastic
Cons
- some ugly boxes
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Trick-Taking — This is one of the best trick-taking games ever
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, we have a game here called Sequoia. This is from 2022.
- It's It's fine. I'm giving it a six. Uh Beasty Bars is is is a fun style game where you're playing these different type of animals, and I think each additional expansion made it more complex and less fun.
- Trias is an old dinosaur game that originally came with cubes, and eventually they had little dinosaurs in it instead. And it's kind of grow out to different things. This is a very I have this ranked as a seven. Probably now, the next time I go through my rankings, I'll probably rank it as a six because it's fine, but it's showing its age.
- All righty, of all the games we talked about today, my favorite here is clearly David Goliath, although Hooky is a very close second.
- Either way, it's always good to talk to you all.
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 0:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Simple rules
- Fast play
- Light-hearted fun
- Accessible to casual players
Cons
- Potentially punishing for unlucky players due to penalties for high cards
- Limited depth for players seeking heavier strategy
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Risk Management — Players attempt to force others to take high cards, creating light take-that interactions within a light-hearted and approachable context.
- risk management / take-that-lite — Players attempt to force others to take high cards, creating light take-that interactions within a light-hearted and approachable context.
- Trick-Taking — Players take turns playing cards; the winner of each trick is determined by the ranking rules of the led suit, with players trying to avoid collecting too many high cards to minimize scoring.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is an old one that Tom loves.
- Very simple. High low.
- Lowest card played into the trick wins the highest card.
- You don't want to win more than two cards with the same suit.
- People are working really hard to stick the others with the high cards so they don't score as many points.
- It feels a little bit take that but in a light-hearted fun way.
- Hard to find. Maybe amidst this renaissance going on, someone will pick this one up.
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